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

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