AN UNBIASED VIEW OF MR. BEAN: THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin made audiences giggle, but he also created us really feel. His movies usually balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a high-quality line between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was a minimum of as Inventiv