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Perry David Rlickman, the balloon-tying, whistle-blowing, sometimes pushy and off-color clown known as “Perri the Hobo” who worked in Brattle Square the last two summers, died in late March...
...engineer-turned-entertainer worked as a clown for more than two decades in New Orleans. But after he was jailed for drug possession in Louisiana, he came north in 2000. He lost his street performer’s permit in Provincetown, Mass. for his offensive antics, retaining the counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to win it back...
...student at University High School in Irvine, Calif., Ferrell was not the class clown...
Chester Brown doesn't need your love. His shifts in tone and subject have bucked many a reader. Part of the second generation of "underground" comix artists of the mid 1980s, Brown has gone from absurdist humor ("Ed the Happy Clown") to confessional autobiography ("I Never Liked You") to adapting the Gospels, to a fictional series with all-gibberish dialogue. His latest project, "Louis Riel," (Drawn and Quarterly; 24 pp; $2.95) the tenth and final issue of which has just arrived, was yet another radical shift in subject. Although choosing to do a biography of a 19th century mystic...
...find out what their fish could and couldn't do, Stanton and his crew installed a fish tank and filled it with clown fish and blue tang, among others. Some became scuba divers to study their subjects more closely. They hired a "fabulous fish guy," Adam Summers, professor at the University of California at Irvine, who schooled them in the two types of swimming fish: rowers, who move their fins back and forth, and flappers, who move theirs up and down. By coincidence, Stanton had chosen one of each kind--a rower clown fish and a flapper blue tang...