THE SMART TRICK OF MR. BEAN: THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE THAT NOBODY IS DISCUSSING

Charlie Chaplin manufactured audiences laugh, but he also made us really feel. His movies typically balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a high-quality line in between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at least as Art