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...dummy. Long before Dora the Explorer, children's television was dominated by a freckly marionette and his pal Buffalo Bob. Howdy Doody's template--a vaudevillian romp full of wacky characters and make-believe--was followed well into the 1960s, picked up by shows like Captain Kangaroo and Bozo's Circus. (Before syndication, early children's programs were franchised across the country; at one time there were more than 200 Bozo the Clowns working U.S. airwaves...
...best-selling memoirs of Marilyn Manson, Mötley Crüe, Dave Navarro and Jenna Jameson. Strauss and fellow ghostwriter Anthony Bozza run an imprint called Igniter, which - after training people to write other people's autobiographies - is cranking out the stories of model Amber Smith, gangster Johnny Fratto and Bozo the Clown. This was clearly...
...Though he felt it was a mistake at the time, Alan W. Livingston, 91, brought the fledgling Beatles to the U.S. while president of Capitol Records. Some of his other nonmistakes include creating the Bozo the Clown character and co-writing the song "I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat," a musical dialogue between Tweety Bird and Sylvester...
...late '60s, Lewis's film popularity waned. In his 40s, he had not found a maturer version of the crazy kid audiences had once loved. The low point came in 1972, when he starred in and directed The Day the Clown Cried, a sort of Bozo at Auschwitz drama that was never released and remains a very tantalizing lost film. Comedian Harry Shearer - whose report on the 1976 Telethon is one of the finest pieces written on Lewis, and who may have seen the movie - described it as "the Holocaust on black velvet." In what must be another painful twist...
DIED Though he wasn't the original Bozo the Clown, Larry Harmon was perhaps the best. First portraying Bozo in 1952, Harmon later acquired the rights to the character and trained others to portray him. As his wife Susan recalls, "At one time he had 183 different Bozos all going at the same time in this country!" His dedication to the icon and ability to make people laugh were pervasive. "You would be sitting at dinner, and he would do the Bozo laugh for you," his wife says. "He was a born entertainer." Harmon...