Word: clowning
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REMEMBER BACK IN junior high school, there was always one kid who used to drive the teacher crazy? That's right, the Class Clown--the kid who could belch all the words to "God Bless America" on a single breath, who could pick it and flick it with one hand, the kid who knew the lines to every Three Stooges movie ever made. And when the teacher would tell him to "quiet down," and accuse him of acting like a two-year-old, he would always come up with something like "I resemble that remark! (nook nook nook...
...listless yet lovable failure. After losing his job, his car and his girlfriend in that order. Winger, along with his sidekick Russell Zisky (Ramis), decides to join the Army simply because he is too lazy to do anything else. The problems quickly (and predictably) begin when Winger--an incessant clown--meets up with the brass of the United States Military...
...touring Australia last month. The magazine said it had purchased the transcripts from a Munich literary agent who had obtained them from the British agent of Freelancer Simon Regan. Regan, 38, a longtime contributor to the sensation-seeking News of the World and antimonarchist author of Charles-The Clown Prince, said he got the tapes from an unidentified Australian who had bugged the Prince to embarrass the monarchy. But Regan insisted that he had not authorized their sale. As Die Aktuelle's staff tried to peddle the transcripts on both sides of the Atlantic (asking price: $50,000), palace...
...MERLIN--the real central character of this film--Nicol Williamson thoroughly enjoys himself, savoring his every line with a sly insouciance. With an amazing array of inflections and twitches. Williamson makes his wizard a peculiar combination of magician, clown, and guardian angel. His consistent brilliance gives the film its only consistency...
...charming lead might have compensated for much, but Peter Ginna is a lobotomized clown, a colorless mime, a plodding acrobat, barely competent without, dead within--a black hole. He is matched by John Cole, whose readings conjure up the printed page, and by Melissa Franklin in a grating, one-note performance. But there is very good work by Madora Thomson, whose fluent, hammy gestures and Bryn Mawr accent are both funny and seductive; by Christopher Randolph, an endearing, intelligent, convincingly lived-in old Pantalone, fresh vet familiar; and by the director, whose seemingly effortless, unctuous gigolo is a model...