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

Charlie Chaplin built audiences chuckle, but he also manufactured us feel. His movies normally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a good line involving sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was not less than as Inventive –