Word: bumbler
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...pejorative, including Brüno, who is trivial, narcissistic, mean to his devoted assistant and obsessed with cheesy fame. But even so, he's preferable to a lot of the people he meets, with their ignorance and prejudice, hypocrisy and primitive rage. Brüno may be a bumbler, but he holds all the cards - he's the character who turns out to be lovable, because how can you not love somebody who makes you laugh so hard? Hell, how can you not be in awe of somebody who can persuade a martial-arts instructor to demonstrate the many ways...
...been written about Barack Obama's learning curve in his first 100 days in office - understandably, given his rapid ascent. But if Obama is a rookie acting like a veteran, Pelosi, a career politician, has all too often filled the role of the bumbler in 2009. In her initial press conference on what the CIA told her, she fumbled through her notes, departed the podium, returned to the podium, departed again and accused the CIA of lying to her - a charge she had clarified the next day by blaming the Bush Administration. To call it a disastrous public performance would...
...umbrella. With its deadly metal spikes spreading around at eye-level from an enormously cumbersome circumference, the umbrella is perfectly designed for destruction. Part ninja shuriken, part medieval buckler, and part retiarius’s net, the umbrella is a deadly tool in the hands of the sidewalk bumbler...
Referencing both James Stewart, as the bumbler who befriends an invisible rabbit in Harvey, and Anthony Perkins, as a dead woman's doting son in Psycho, Gosling tiptoes on the fine line between innocence and madness. Or rather, he stands still at first, rooted in fear, as if his boots had frozen to the snowy ground. Then he finds Bianca and opens up to his not-quite-living doll. Lying contentedly in an old tree house, with Bianca splayed on the ground below, he warbles a wonderfully strangulated version of the Nat King Cole chestnut...
...specialized in masterly portrayals of comically clueless guys--guys he described as being "about a half-step behind life's parade." Brilliant bumbler Tom Poston got his start as one of Steve Allen's "man on the street" interviewees and later shone as a spacey drunk in Mork & Mindy and a hapless handyman in Newhart, roles he said he understood all too well. "In ways I don't like to admit, I'm a goof-up myself," he said...