Trying too hard is not clown. At the center of the group was Tallie Medel, a 2008 Emerson College graduate, who people might recognize from “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” the life ...

In one, he was a tender, clumsy and wordless red-nosed clown named Buffo. He sold out theaters around the world. Critics compared him to Charlie Chaplin and Harpo Marx. In another, he volunteered ...