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

Charlie Chaplin created audiences laugh, but he also produced us come to feel. His films typically well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a good line in between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the least as