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

Charlie Chaplin produced audiences snicker, but he also designed us truly feel. His movies usually well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a high-quality line concerning sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at least