Word: bozos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrong. After a great deal of introduction and adulation, a short, middle-aged man who looked like a cross between Bozo and Einstein shuffled up onto the stage, mumbled something about critics being ants, and withdrew a well-worn copy of his latest work...
Sean Penn is tops. Madonna's bad boy was a wartime swain in Racing with the Moon, a pinwheeling bozo in The Falcon and the Snowman. Here he is all static electricity, forcing a smile through the sour taste in his mouth, weighing filial devotion against conventional morality, trying to figure out what his body will tell his brain to do next. And when, at the climax, he confronts Brad Sr. over a string of domestic crimes ("Is this the family gun, Dad?"), Penn gives the movie, and his career to date, a sensational payoff. Worry over the film...
That's what we're feeling this week. Our tenure as the 11th executive guard of the What, as we have taken to calling it, ends. Look to your left. Not at the TV listings, bozo, look at the column of credits. We are, individually and collectively, history...
Dominique Bozo, the museum's director, was able to choose from the Picassos the artist had hoarded for himself. In addition, he was given paintings from Picasso's private collection, by such artists as Matisse, Renoir and Miro. As a result of Bozo's freedom to make his own selections, the museum admirably represents almost all major phases of a protean career. Yet there are a few gaps. Picasso was a Spaniard, and the Picasso Museum in Barcelona has most of his very early works. Madrid has the Guernica, which found refuge in the Museum of Modern Art during Francisco...
...only appropriate that Murray has endeavored upon his first "dramatic performance" the same year that Bozo the Clown is running for President. Both reside in the comic file of our memory, and Murray's blank face and Bozo's five-hour make-up job make us think we will get a few laughs. We get a few. His girlfriend demanding they talk, Murray jumps up on to the pool deck, wags himself about, saying. "Let's talk; let's talk seal talk." Bozo says he's as serious as a heart attack, and at some point you get the feeling...