Word: clown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youngsters, Clarence Williams and Carolan Daniels, play acceptably. But George Rose as the shopkeeper is nothing less than superb. And that is only what we would expect of this British craftsman, who is not only the finest Shakespearean clown now to be had but also one of the best character actors in the world...
...Musikriter is the brainchild of a short (4 ft. 9 in.), roly-poly, fortyish divorcee named Lily Pavey, who had only a year and a half of formal schooling. A former circus clown who could play 17 different musical instruments, she has spent the past 14 years developing her invention in a cluttered flat in South London. She hit on the idea one day while working as an invoice clerk to support her family. To relieve the boredom of the job, she took to singing while she typed and was suddenly seized by the thought: "How much more interesting...
Died. William Jackson, 59, librarian of Harvard's famed rare-book Houghton Library, known to his colleagues as "Our Grand Acquisitor," who trebled the library's collection of historical and literary documents and tracked clown a copy of the first book printed on each of the seven continents; of a heart attack; in Boston...
Choked by its clown's mask...
PROTESTANT AND ORTHODOX CENTER shows the controversial short, Parable, a heavily symbolic film that casts a clown as a latter-day Christ who is crucified under the Big Top. The controversy seems to be between those who think it is art and those who believe it is sacrilege. Most people probably know which side they are likely to be on. If not, there's one way to find...