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...Apple Circus is back with an all-new show about the town that Boston loves to hate. But even with a segment entitled “At Yankee (or Shea) Stadium,” the intense rivalry seems to have melted under the feel-good big top spirit, resulting in a lot more of the love and a lot less of the hate...

Author: By Adriana Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Day at the Circus | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

...typical TV movie might have shown the match reverently as an Important Social Moment. But Anderson--whose Cheerleader was a pitch-perfect rendering of a modern tabloid circus--also captures the made-for-TV ridiculousness of its buildup, from Riggs' shilling for Sugar Daddy caramel pops to the opponents' theatrical, Muhammad Ali-esque bouts of insult and braggadocio. For these outsize personalities, the sideshow was the show. "Billie has often spoken of tennis as entertainment as well as a sport," says Holly Hunter, who plays King and starred in Cheerleader. "That aspect of the story was really well served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Center-Court Sideshow | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...premonition / This girl’s gonna make me fall” 5) “I’ve been on the outside looking in / Let me into your heart” 6) “I’m gonna tell my son to join a circus so that death is cheap and games are just another way of life” 7) “I think it’s time I found a new religion” 8) “Girl, I wanna waller in the back of my Impala?...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IN THE MIX | 4/13/2001 | See Source »

...DIED. IRINA BUGRIMOVA, 91, feted Russian circus artist who was the country's first woman lion tamer; in Moscow. Joining the circus as a teenager, she tried motorcycling and acrobatics before turning to the big cats. When she retired at age 67, she had performed with some 70 lions and been decorated as a "Hero of Socialist Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

...book has been produced. I did make a valiant attempt last year, which is now sitting half-finished in a red folder labeled "My Book." But starting today, whenever I do get around to opening that red folder and finishing "My Book," there will be no media circus shouting my brilliance, no interviews to explain how my strong values pushed me to early success, no trip to the kid-friendly Rosie O'Donnell Show. My age will no longer end in "-teen," making me a tadpole in a big ocean just like everyone else, with no special accommodations...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: Editorial Notebook: Turning 20 | 2/20/2001 | See Source »

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