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

Charlie Chaplin manufactured audiences laugh, but he also made us experience. His films typically balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a good line amongst sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the very least as Imagina