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

Charlie Chaplin produced audiences chortle, but he also built us feel. His movies usually balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a great line between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the least as Resourceful – spe