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

Charlie Chaplin designed audiences chuckle, but he also manufactured us feel. His movies often balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a good line among sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was not less than as Inventive – spec