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...Williams' richly detailed portrait, Marshall emerges as a born rebel. He showed early talent as a debater and an advocate--at age six he persuaded his mother to simplify the spelling of his name from Thoroughgood--but even more as a class clown and budding playboy. Indeed, it was not until he arrived at Howard University School of Law in 1930 and fell under the spell of its tough-minded dean, Charles Hamilton Houston, that the contours of Marshall's mission began to form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Grand Marshall | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...funny, and that movie you made about the drunken clown was great. How come Bobcat's Big Ass Show sucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bobcat Goldthwait | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...charmed the room, he takes the last question from Tracii McGregor, an editor at The Source, a hip-hop magazine. She tells Rock that his photo in whiteface in Vanity Fair was jarring to many of her black friends and asks him what was behind it. "I'm a clown. I'm a comedian," Rock says. "Do you want me to be Dick Gregory?" Yvette Russell of Essence joins in, saying the pictures pained the average black person. Rock is not joking anymore. "It's sad that Jim Carrey can do things I'll never be able to do because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 31, 1998 | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...BOZENA, 28-33 Circle of Hell: II Seems like: Salvador Dali, the clown Next Seinfeld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny: The Next Generation | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...BUFFALO BOB" SMITH, 80, revered TV icon and host of the medium's first smash hit, The Howdy Doody Show; in North Carolina. Starting in 1947, the avuncular would-be cowboy (along with his famous marionette) cheerfully presided over Doodyville U.S.A.--home to such goofy characters as Clarabell the Clown and Flubadub. Howdy Doody ran for 13 years, partly a result of Smith's respect for his fans ("You can't kid a kid"). Among the show's contributions to the pop lexicon: the "Peanut Gallery" (his studio audience) and--sorry, Bart Simpson fans--"Cowabunga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Aug. 10, 1998 | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

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