She has done radio - she loves radio - and goodness knows how many Snow Whites - playing Dopey, of course, ha-ha - and a couple of Cinderellas, and once she was principal boy.
The juvenile Kev, played to dopey perfection by Mr. Fleischer, alternately gripes and makes absurd boasts about the prowess he is yet to prove.
"I call this 'palatial kitsch,' " Liberace declares as he shows off his home to Scott, a blond hunk played with dopey sweetness by Matt Damon.
This latest production of Garson Kanin's comedy about a brutish tycoon, his girlfriend and the tutor entrusted with her education drew praise for the performance of its star Nina Arianda, who plays the dopey girlfriend, Billie.
I loved him in his corn-fed, handsome youth, playing the dopey junior bartender in Cheers, and I adore him in his dented, haunted middle age, lost in the bayou on True Detective.
The romantic chemistry is so potent between Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo that I am tempted this morning to sit down to another viewing of their 2006 spy-spoof comedy OSS 117: Cairo, Nest Of Spies, in which Dujardin plays a dopey agent opposite Bejo's activist Larmina El Akmar Betouche.
There was also Jim Carrey, in "The Majestic," playing a dopey screenwriter who gets bonked on the head, suffers amnesia, and winds up in a small town on the California coast; and Sean Penn, in "I Am Sam," as a retarded man who wants to keep custody of his daughter.
I'm honestly excited for viewers to experience Parker Young's performance as Randy Hill, who is the big, beating heart of "Enlisted" (though Young's comedy chops will not be a revelation to anyone who saw him play a dopey, hilariously sincere jock on "Suburgatory").
In the film, which opened nationwide last Friday, a couple of dopey fellows played by Mos Def and Jack Black create their own wacky remakes of mainstream movies.
Emma Watson is a stand-out: she delivers her character's blasé whines of entitlement like a musician coaxing a keening lament from an oboe, and her drained interactions with her dopey mother, played by Leslie Mann, are a joy".
