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

Charlie Chaplin designed audiences chortle, but he also made us come to feel. His movies often well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a wonderful line between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at least as Imaginative