If you hate mimes (it's a common prejudice), blame the poor imitators of this eloquent pantomime artist, not the man himself. A hero of the French Resistance, Marceau was an international postwar sensation playing the silent Everyman trapped in a cage or walking against the wind. In Mel Brooks' Silent Movie he spoke the film's only word: Non! But his life was one long affirmative, revealing the possibilities in a smile, a shrug, the will to move on.