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...married to producer Carlo Ponti, but she didn't need a patron to get good roles. She was "The Miller's Beautiful Wife," a Mario Camerini comedy co-starring de Sica and a calflike Mastroianni. She appeared in de Sica's "Gold of Naples" with Mangano and the clown Toto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Two Voyages to Italy | 6/19/2002 | See Source »

Despite his future calling, Franken was far from being a class clown, excelling in his studies. And while neither of his parents had gone to college, higher education always loomed in Franken’s future...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Oh The Things He Knows | 6/5/2002 | See Source »

Reichert thought he would catch his serial killer by reading about those who had come before: John Wayne Gacy, the killer clown of Chicago, who slew 33; Gerald Stano from Daytona Beach, Fla., who murdered 41; Randy Kraft in California, who was convicted of 16 murders. Reichert contacted police departments around the country that had dealt with serial killers, and in 1984 he flew to Florida to talk to Ted Bundy on death row. Bundy had been found guilty of killing 22 victims. Says Reichert: "Just to sit across from him and shake hands sent chills. You think, 'Just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: River Of Death | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...comic possibilities in herself and her supporting cast... On Mary's shows, nothing is sacred and few things are profane: sex, inflation, urban miseries and small-time office politics are alive and laughing on prime time... Between them, the two very different, identical comediennes are the season's brightest clowns. On every show they prove that women need not be dingbats or contralto foghorns to win applause or affection. Almost alone, they are bringing back the forgotten tradition of the beautiful clown. From the look of the ladies and the sound of their followers, TV '74 has a glow that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 28 Years Ago in TIME | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...1940s and '50s who competed in 6,000 matches over seven decades; in Orlando, Fla. Known as a hooker--a master of the sport's most complex and dangerous moves--Thesz was critical of gimmicky antics. "I'm a wrestler," he said, "not a wrassler, not a clown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 20, 2002 | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

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