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

Charlie Chaplin built audiences laugh, but he also built us truly feel. His movies normally well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a wonderful line among sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was no less than as Resourceful – n