Word: circus
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...What I originally envisioned was doing a parody of "Bozo's Circus," which ran in the Midwest for years - still runs. It's really just, you know, I started combining puppets and live animals on the Conan show, most famously with Triumph the dog, and this is just an attempt to see how stupid that technique can get. It's an experiment. Right after "The Dana Carvey Show," I really had the idea to do something like this, and I got to do some of it on "Saturday Night Live," but I wanted to do more than 10 cartoons...
Clowns are scary. I didn't used to think so; I'm a longtime circus fan, and while the clowns were never my favorite part of the circus growing up, they never freaked me out either. In recent years I have realized that the general consensus is that clowns are pretty much terrifying. Think about it: garish makeup, frightful hair and giant shoes capable of crushing a small child - is it really any surprise? But a new and innovative Ringling Bros. circus just may force all the clown-ophobes out there to reconsider...
...Barnum's Kaleidoscape is Ringling Bros.' first show to play under a tent in since 1956. Since then the big-time circus has been almost exclusively a creature of large multipurpose arenas, showing up at odd moments between ice hockey and tractor pulls. But the circus belongs in a tent, under the big top; better still, this one takes place in a single ring, which as far as I am concerned is the way the circus was meant to be seen. Sure, there is something to be said for the pure spectacle of the three-ring circus, but I always...
...York City's Bryant Park was a bit fancier and more expensive, but there was unmistakably the same feeling of excitement in the air. Surrounded by artists performing small tricks, juggling, singing and playing, the crowd was not only warmed up but also invited into the intimate circus experience to come...
Even if you didn't know that John started buying pictures after he stopped drinking, you might figure it out from the pictures. They suggest the mental climate of a man cleaning up his act. The old John was a circus clown shot out of his own cannon, so you'd expect his collection to have more of the orangutan behavior and chili-pepper colors you get from, say, David La Chappelle, the celebrity photographer who pinwheeled around John three years ago. You do find some of that in the Polaroid self-portraits Lucas Samaras made in the 1970s, when...