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...rain, on the night he realizes he?s in love, Gene walks Debbie to her front door. Before he goes dancin? in the rain, he kisses Debbie goodnight at her front door, and does it without bending any part of his body - just leaning, as if he were wearing clown shoes for balance. Then he goes into his act. He?s got one prop, an umbrella, and his dance exhausts its every use: as a cane, a pointer, a balancer on the tightrope of a curb, a cyclotron whirling him inside a whirlwind. But often he just holds...
DIED. REGGIE MONTGOMERY, 54, stage actor who won critical praise for his performance in the 1986 play The Colored Museum (later televised on PBS) and was the first black clown to perform with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus; of undisclosed causes; in New York City...
...Center for Disease Control announced last week that whooping cough was on the rise again. Whooping cough is one of those conditions, like "morning sickness," that's terribly undernamed. It sounds like the sort of disease a clown might have, instead of the sort of disease that can make you cough so violently you break a rib. Pertussis, the name used by people who have medical degrees and are therefore too dignified to use "oop" words, is a little scarier, but still could be a scalp condition...
...probably closer to 12. Less than 1.5 m tall, her platform heels only highlight how short her legs are. Her tissue-stuffed bra emphasizes her flat chest. And the bright green eye shadow and heavy rouge she wears give her all the vampishness of a seventh-grader playing the clown in a school play. The most popular of the girls in her brothel, picked out by up to three customers a day, she insists she has never been happier. But sitting in a restaurant by the Nam Ruak River, the 10-m-wide watery frontier at Mae Sai's northern...
...company, she would easily be a millionaire by now. But she’s just too darn nice for that. With Antoinette, there’s always a toothy grin, a sarcastic jab and a lap dance waiting for everyone. But when she’s not clowning around, she’s The Crimson’s favorite confidante, always listening thoughtfully as people bitch and moan—as people tend to do at 14 Plympton. Unafraid of anything and everyone, Antoinette’s the kind of woman who befriends the drunk clown at Whitney?...