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...comes by Wyke's stately home one afternoon to discuss a divorce. Wyke instead presses him into an intricate plot to defraud an insurance company. Shaffer would have us believe that one man. wanting another's wife, could easily be persuaded to dress up in a clown's outfit and stumble about, under the husband's wry supervision, trying to blow up a safe and remove the jewelry it contains...
...longer enjoy rock concerts and, asked the question. "What's killing rock?" will answer, "audiences." Too many people get hopelessly stoned an hour before show time; too many people spend concerts buying or selling dope, or smoking it, or dropping it, and generally behaving like morons. Thus the clown who, having lost his shirt after left Beck's excellent show at the Orpheum, stood in the aisle, wavering demanding an encore. He finally took off his shoe and starting beating on his seat with it. He was there long after everybody left. There is too much emphasis on the "upbest...
...year-old Elizabeth Taylor: "Loving you,/ Loving you,/ Could be such heavenly bliss..." Joan Crawford, who became an expert at playing distraught ladies, offered this line at age 16: "Where are you?/ My heart cries out in agony..." At eleven, Bob Hope began, "I dreamed I was a circus clown./ I wore a funny suit." In his dream, Hope was caught by a lion. When the boy pleaded for mercy, the beast responded: "I'll let you free to do a show,/ And come again another...
George Welbes' McMurphy doesn't enlist much sympathy, engaging clown though he is. Although he gives a generally laudable performance, his somewhat nasty and unnatural laugh, that echoes throughout the play, came to represent the outside world, the spectators, laughing at his comrades, instead of with them or for them. His swaggering and posturing, his gambling with cigarettes or human lives, is often too funny for comfort or credibility. A continuous lack of subtlety brought out the more humorous sides of the situation, and only towards the very end, in a scene like the one in which he gets Chief...
...lightly squeezed tube of toothpaste. Gnome is where her heart is, especially when spoofing flowers, inch-worms and swishy ballet masters, or imitating a katydid rubbing its legs (Splendor in the Grass). When four of her dancers somehow managed to portray a cowardly lion encountering an equally cowardly clown in a cage (Circus Scene), it became clear that she is not the only one who wears the pantaloni in her deliciously zany company...