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

Charlie Chaplin designed audiences snicker, but he also manufactured us truly feel. His films frequently well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a wonderful line between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at least as creati