THE 2-MINUTE RULE FOR MR. BEAN: THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin manufactured audiences giggle, but he also built us truly feel. His films usually balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line involving sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was no less than as Imagina