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Come one, come all to the Greatest Show on Earth! The Zoetrope Circus is back in town! Famous for its tradition of death-defying stunts! Three years ago they thrilled you with Apocalypse Now-and made you gasp with public previews on two continents, perpetually revised endings, ruptured psyches! Last year they made you weep with the spectacle of a three-ring movie studio on the verge of bankruptcy, only to be saved at the last minute by the world-renowned Paramount Pictures! And now, for their most stupendous caper, never before attempted on any stage . . . One From the Heart...
...film, a stylized musical set in Las Vegas on Independence Day, recounts the affairs of a junkyard owner (Frederic Forrest) with two women: a travel agent (Teri Garr) and a circus star (Nastassia Kinski). Coppola calls Heart "a lounge operetta, pretty and sweet. I've made too many gangster and soldier movies. I like fantasy and fable-it's a large part of me." It is also a huge part of the film's budget: Dean Tavoularis' dazzling sets cost more than $6 million to build. The film went $11 million over the original budget, shooting...
...Apple Circus is different: it has only one ring, two clowns, 14 acrobats and aerialists, one horse, one pony, one elephant - and no dogs or lions at all. What it does have is enthusiasm, charm and the friendliness of the small scale. "This is the maximum size I ever want to have," insists Director Paul Binder. "If we were larger, we would lose our intimacy and immediacy." Now completing a four-week run at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, the Big Apple Circus has something else most of its competitors, which play in huge arenas like Madison Square Garden...
...couple of amazing, astounding acts. Philippe Petit, the French tightrope walker, does all that can be done on a tightrope but fall asleep; the Gaonas, who may be the best trapeze artists in the world (and who for many years appeared with the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus), force oohs and ahs out of the most jaded spectators; and the Back Street Flyers, six male acrobats from Harlem, show that the most plastic instrument on earth is the human body...
...join the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Hungry to be in front of an audience at last, Binder accepted; eventually the two traveled to Europe, where they performed their juggling act on Paris street corners, then joined the Nouveau Cirque de Paris. "That was my introduction to the one-ring circus," says Binder, "and I was amazed by the beauty of it. I made up my mind then that I wanted to set one up in New York...