THE SMART TRICK OF MR. BEAN: THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE THAT NOBODY IS DISCUSSING

Charlie Chaplin produced audiences snicker, but he also produced us sense. His movies usually well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a high-quality line between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the very least as