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The idea of a jazz guitarist who's also a textbook Freudian hysteric--loose and yet focused when he's onstage, an anxious buffoon when he's off--has comic poetry built into it, and Penn has radar for both the comedy and the poetry.
In Los Pastores, or the Shepherds’ Play, a mystery play performed in Mexico and the Southwest since the sixteenth century, the shepherd who plays the role of a buffoon, a jester, is named Bato.
Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: He is an artless buffoon whose only asset is his family name, which he uses to woo donors and to intimidate opponents.
The mandatory buffoon in the mock-Superman outfit romps on the sand, his one thought (you got it) captured in a comic-book bubble.
Under its slapstick shenanigans, this modest movie offers a convincing vision of Nixon White House operations as a sordid buffoon show undone by a couple of painfully earnest innocents: It's nature's revenge on the overweening.