Word: clown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Actually, you don't have to be all that sharp to catch these Canadian clowns, whose show Ferno (running in repertory with Caged) can be seen July 7-24 at the A.R.T. All you have to do is buy a ticket--and it's well worth the price. Mump and Smoot may be clowns, but they're nobody's fools, and Ferno is unlike and clown act you've ever seen before...
...bully his way into the small group of candidates vying to be the next President of Russia. "There is a great danger that someone like Zhirinovsky could take over," says Yuli Guzman, a parliamentary Deputy from the democratic Russia's Choice bloc. "He is not just a clown in the eyes of ordinary folk...
Television, however, handles King clumsily. ABC's four-hour version of It (childhood friends battle nameless evil, personified by Tim Curry as a malevolent clown) was bloated and out of control, while The Tommyknockers (more nameless evil, this time chasing Jimmy Smits) seemed derivative and halfhearted. Still, both were big hits in the ratings. At a time when TV is awash in docudramas and uplifting moral tales, King's dark, fanciful (though still moralistic) stories seem liberating...
...star; his ripostes ("Eat my shorts") became T-shirt slogans. Bart is still the richest Simpsons character, but the purview has expanded to include all of Springfield, with 50 or so comic figures, from the Kwik-E-Mart's Apu Nahasapeemapetilan to the Kennedyesque Mayor Quimby to Krusty the Clown and his sadistic cartoon cohorts Itchy & Scratchy -- a wonderfully congested cosmos each week...
...They have heart. One of Brooks' cardinal rules: Let's not be afraid of emotion. The strongest episodes are those (like "Lisa's Substitute," "Homer Alone," "Like Father, Like Clown" and "Bart the Lover") that reveal the bedrock fondness, desperation and loyalty that bond this or any other frazzled clan. A viewer can feel awe at the show's cascading wit and still purr at the sweet, deep sentiment. Hail, Simpsons! May you live another 100 episodes at the same apex of quality...