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

Charlie Chaplin made audiences snicker, but he also produced us feel. His movies often balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fine line between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the very least as Resourceful –