http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2011/03/04/its-keaton-vs-chaplin-vs-lloyd-in-silent-comedy-battle-royale-this-weekend Comments On: It's Keaton vs. Chaplin vs. Lloyd in Silent Comedy Battle Royale This Weekend by Elise Nakhnikian en-us Copyright 2013 The L Magazine. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The L Magazine readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The L Magazine. editor@thelmagazine.com (The L Magazine Webmaster) Sun, 26 May 2013 00:00:01 -0400 Sun, 26 May 2013 04:30:00 -0400 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Ever since I was a kid, I have been listening to the ridiculous debate about Charlie Chaplin versus Buster Keaton - which comic is funnier, less sentimental, more artistic, etc. - as though great movie comics are so plentiful that we must compare apples to oranges. For the final word on this subject, I have two quotes: One from The Silent Clowns, a priceless study of silent-movie comedy by the late critic Walter Kerr, the second a seemingly irrelevant quote about a completely different subject by Susan Sontag.
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