HOW MUCH YOU NEED TO EXPECT YOU'LL PAY FOR A GOOD MR. BEAN: THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin created audiences giggle, but he also made us come to feel. His films usually well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fine line among sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was not less than as Inventive –