A REVIEW OF MR. BEAN: THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin produced audiences laugh, but he also made us come to feel. His movies usually balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a high-quality line in between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the least as Inve