DETAILS, FICTION AND MR. BEAN: THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin made audiences giggle, but he also created us come to feel. His movies often balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a good line between 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 Imaginative – par