NOT KNOWN FACTUAL STATEMENTS ABOUT MR. BEAN: THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin manufactured audiences giggle, but he also manufactured us come to feel. His films typically well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a wonderful line between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at least as In