MR. BEAN: THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE OPTIONS

Charlie Chaplin manufactured audiences giggle, but he also built us truly feel. His films normally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a high-quality line involving sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was not less than as