INDICATORS ON MR. BEAN: THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE YOU SHOULD KNOW

Charlie Chaplin created audiences snicker, but he also produced us truly feel. 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 least as Inventive –