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

Charlie Chaplin created audiences snicker, but he also created us experience. His movies generally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a great line in between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the least as creative – e