Word: clownish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press -- is a boulder of a man: easily 250 lbs., and 6 ft. 2 in. tall. His ruddy face is a cross between Leonid Brezhnev's and Robert Mitchum's. His abundant hair, dyed black, is slicked back '30s style to counterpoint bushy black eyebrows that can appear deceptively clownish...
...Juan, Eva's rather buffoonish husband, Dean Shapiro is appropriately clownish. His funny, well-acted portrayal of Juan's weakness serves as a counterpoint to Eva's sheer determination. He carries off the part well, though his voice could be stronger. Andrew Dietderich deliberately overacts as the other foolish man in the show--Magaldi, Eva's first lover--and is quite amusing...
...thought of Nixon as a comic character, a dark and serious American comic character, like someone out of Twain. Comic in the Checkers speech. Comic in the "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore" farewell following his defeat in the California gubernatorial election in 1962. In the clownish 5 o'clock shadow of the first Nixon-Kennedy television debate. In the "I am not a crook" protest. Lighting fires in the White House fireplace in the middle of summer. Kneeling with Henry Kissinger in prayer. Phone calls to Woody Hayes. Bebe Rebozo. Robert Abplanalp. Comic names, madcap circumstances...
...SIMILAR problem afflicts the acting side of the show. Sherwin Parikh and Sibel Ergener both display a flair for comedy, using funny accents and clownish movements. But director Danny O'Keefe reduces their amusement value by overusing both techniques...
...film's humorous elements are its greatest attraction. Mastroianni plays a man with a vivid, even clownish imagination, a part at which he is particularly adept. "How could you marry a man like that. He should have been a clown," Romano's mother-in-law says early in the film...