“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it,” said Charlie Chaplain. As an adolescent, I watched countless movies of Chaplain merely because the religious institution which educated me had their own copies of the movies and they considered Chaplain innocent entertainment. Watching those movies, I grew up thinking of Chaplain as a happy-go-lucky man, quite like the drunk millionaire in City Lights: exuberant, affectionate, and wildly generous, as well a...