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

Charlie Chaplin designed audiences chortle, but he also made us experience. His movies usually balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a great line in between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the least as Resource