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

Charlie Chaplin created audiences chortle, but he also produced us experience. His movies generally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a high-quality line involving sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the very leas