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

Charlie Chaplin produced audiences laugh, but he also manufactured us truly feel. His movies generally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line among sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was a minimum of as Inventive