Word: clowning
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KATHIE LEE I've always prided myself on being able to work with anybody. The times that Gelman and I had tension were when I've wanted somebody on the show and he's not wanted them on. I should have the right to say, "I want Bozo the Clown...
...funny essays on junk cinema, Michael J. Nelson, star of dear old Mystery Science Theater 3000, pokes at dead things with a nice Midwestern disdain. Among his targets: Patch Adams (about a doctor whose mission is to "put on a clown nose and frighten children") and actor Jason Lee ("He sucks out loud. He sucks on toast. He forces me to use the word sucks"). In the land of suckitude, Mike Nelson is king...
...That's what happened last week to Talk Miramax Books and its celebrity editor, Tina Brown, when pesky Internet muckraker Matt Drudge got his hands on a draft of one of the company's titles. Written by investigative reporter John Connolly and tentatively called The Insane Clown Posse, the book proposed to turn the tables on President Clinton's impeachment accusers, from Ken Starr and his staff to several anti-Clinton journalists, by exposing their secrets. The results, though, appear to exemplify the politics of personal destruction that Clinton's defenders have long claimed to abhor...
...previous speakig engagements and numerous Harvard rehearsals aren't enough to prepare Krebs for this morning's address, he could also fall back on his clown training from a workshop he attended the summer after his sophomore year. There he learned how to walk to the center of a stage and make an announcement, thus improving his stage presence over the two-week training course...
...loose demeanor, and teams don't play well when they are stressed out. How many times have you heard a coach or player tell the media, "We've gotta play loose tonight?" It's a clich, but a valid one. And what better way to stay loose than to clown around a bit after a touchdown...