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

Charlie Chaplin manufactured audiences snicker, but he also manufactured us truly feel. His films often balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line involving sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was not less than as