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Among Vegas' poker-faced master builders--Steve Wynn of the Mirage and Treasure Island, Bill Bennett of Circus Circus--Stupak is something of a wild card, a joke or a curse, a relic of the days when the town was run by guys whose middle name was "the." He enjoys banter about guns, was almost cast in Martin Scorsese's gangster epic Casino, and still refers to Mob characters like "Lefty" Rosenthal and Tony (the Ant) Spilotro as "the boys...
...lives of their own." MICHELLE CHALFOUN, 29; Manhattan, Novelist The movie rights to Chalfoun's first novel, Roustabout, have already been optioned by actress Winona Ryder. The novel, which hit bookstores two weeks ago, is the tale of Mat, a young woman who grows up alone in a circus after her mother abandons her. Mat is the roustabout of the title, a circus hand engaged in the unglamorous task of setting up the big top. It is a job Chalfoun knows from experience. On a whim, the dance major answered a help-wanted ad and worked on a tent crew...
What do you want to be when you grow up? Ah, the classic childhood question. "A clown in the circus," I would reply to relatives at family gatherings. Well, it is now 1996, and I am twenty years old--a clown in the circus is just not where I am headed. That's okay, I assure myself--no one is expected to know the precise academic and professional course his or her life will take at such early stages in the game. Correction: No one outside of Harvard is assumed to possess such foresight. But amid the red-bricked buildings...
...revival, you come in humming the score. Sondheim's famous opening tune for Forum--Comedy Tonight--is brilliantly refreshed by director Jerry Zaks into a circus of Technicolor bawdry. He parades all the fine, low comedians and, for a hilarious moment, some tragedians too. Like Zaks' revival of Guys and Dolls, this Forum is a celebration of shtick. If a gag was ever funny, from Plautus' time to ours, he'll spit on it and spin it until you have to laugh unashamedly...
...Pedro, his puppet Cecelia the chicken, or the blond-wigged Johnny, a face he painted on his hand, moving thumb and index finger to simulate a mouth. Born Wenceslao Moreno, he imitated voices as a child. He worked as an amateur bullfighter but, after being gored repeatedly, took up circus juggling. Later his ventriloquist act achieved worldwide fame. In his mid-80s he appeared on the Muppet Show and Late Night With David Letterman; he also toured briefly in the musical Sugar Babies...