Word: clown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what? Somerset Maugham himself thought the original film version of his novel Razor's Edge could run as a comedy, but Murray and Director John Byrum exude the fetish for self-seriousness of a philosophy student and the free-floating silliness of a circus clown...
...only appropriate that Murray has endeavored upon his first "dramatic performance" the same year that Bozo the Clown is running for President. Both reside in the comic file of our memory, and Murray's blank face and Bozo's five-hour make-up job make us think we will get a few laughs. We get a few. His girlfriend demanding they talk, Murray jumps up on to the pool deck, wags himself about, saying. "Let's talk; let's talk seal talk." Bozo says he's as serious as a heart attack, and at some point you get the feeling...
...Instead of distributing surplus cheese to the hungry, the Administration, according to Thunderberg, should provide baked beans. William Allen Camps warned that an enemy power has been tampering with the weather to cut off the U.S. food supply. One reassuring note was sounded by Larry Harmon, a.k.a. Bozo the Clown. Immediately after his inauguration, he said, he would go to Moscow fully dressed as Bozo and wheedle Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko into a nuclear freeze. Or Tastee-Freeze. Or whatever...
DIED. Richard Basehart, 70, sonorous-voiced actor whose wide-ranging career included such distinctive roles as the dying Scotsman in Broadway's The Hasty Heart, the mournful clown in Fellini's film La Strada, and the stern submarine admiral on television's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. The son of a newspaperman from Zanesville, Ohio, Basehart consistently sought to avoid stereotypes and expand his range as an actor. In later years he used his authoritative baritone to do narrations and readings, as he did at the closing ceremonies...
...nation disarmament talks in Geneva made a point of putting the President's jest on the official record to illustrate U.S. "hostility" to the Soviet Union. In Western Europe, the West German weekly Stern appeared on newsstands with a cover that depicted Reagan wearing a clown's red plastic nose. Underneath were the words: PRESIDENT REAGAN'S JOKE: TO BE LAUGHED TO DEATH...