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

Charlie Chaplin made audiences giggle, but he also designed us truly feel. His movies generally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line concerning sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was no less than as Resource