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

Charlie Chaplin manufactured audiences snicker, but he also made us experience. His movies normally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a good line concerning sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the very least as Imag