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

Charlie Chaplin built audiences chuckle, but he also created us experience. His movies usually well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a high-quality line involving sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at least as Imaginati