Word: clown
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There's lots more, from barbershops tuned into CNBC and cabbies gabbing about mutual funds to a record number of investment clubs and the rise to guru status of two advisers who wear clown hats and go by the name Motley Fool. If it's not a mania, it's certainly close. "I'm nervous," concedes Fossel. "We're finally getting to the point where everyone thinks the market can only go onward and upward...
Only a former professional clown could have put together a dance/theater program as crazy, eclectic and fun as "Snappy Crayons and Other New Dances." George Whiteside '87 performed with the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey Circus before choreographing and designing this show which combines modern dance, clowning and nonstop energy...
...Having graduated in 1987 with a degree in Russian and Soviet studies, Whiteside moved on to study theater improvisation and performed with troupes in Boston. According to Whiteside, however, the biggest achievement of his life came when he toured with the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey Circus as a clown in "The Greatest Show on Earth." "Snappy Crayons" is Whiteside's first attempt at choreographing a dance/theater production...
Disgusting food- and flatulence-related humor do not much lighten this load. Neither do jokes about sexual misunderstanding. One is left wondering why Williams has granted early retirement to his inner anarchist, what dark need compels a great clown to become a sad, fuzzy one in movies only Bob Dole--faking it--could love...
Levy conducted a series of interviews with his profane and grandiloquent subject (favorite quote: John F. Kennedy was "one of the great [extremely vulgar synonym for ladies' man] of all time. Except for me") until the famously volatile comedian blew up at a semitough question about The Day the Clown Cried, his unfinished 1972 film drama about the Holocaust. (Disclosure: Levy's chapter on the making of The Day the Clown Cried relies heavily--and with due credit--on a magazine article I wrote on the subject for Spy.) Levy certainly doesn't shy away from psychobiography: Lewis' demanding though...