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But that was before they released The Saint . This unfathomable spy movie is about a master of disguise who dresses up as, among other things, a Spanish poet and an academic doofus to trick the heroine--a lonely but gorgeous physicist with heart disease--into surrendering the cold-fusion formula she carries in her bra.
What will it take--seeing a person standing in a puddle--or worse--before you realize that you're a doofus?
The particularly loopy metaphors in Thursday's question inspired many of you to suggest the same candidate for the role of amiable doofus in our national drama, a sort of Loki figure if that clever trickster were just a little less, well, clever.
But his performance is pure Kramer, "a hipster doofus just the same" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). Even British director Jonathan Lynn is forgiven for indulging in the same lawyer jokes and romantic-comedy subplots he used in My Cousin Vinny . (Click here for the Trial and Error site.)