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

Charlie Chaplin made audiences snicker, but he also manufactured us experience. His movies generally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a wonderful line amongst sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was not less than as Imaginativ