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

Charlie Chaplin designed audiences snicker, but he also designed us feel. His films frequently well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a good line between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was a minimum of as creative –