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...superstar with an abused childhood is something between an object of pity and a dirty joke. His travail could still end in courtroom triumph. It might also reveal tragedy, for Jackson and for children even more vulnerable than he. Then the circus will close down, and Michael's white clown-face will never smile again...
Broad humor and racial issues are hard to balance -- just ask Ted Danson and his ex-girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg. But Lawrence is a sort of Afrocentric clown, and he has an insightful edginess that, when he chooses to display it, can raise his sitcom work above the level of stereotype. In one Martin episode Lawrence is in a shoe store when a white customer mistakes him for a store employee. "I don't work here," he says, with the disgust that many professional blacks have felt when they are mistaken for the help. When Lawrence invites friends over to watch...
...over the head with their most superficial characteristics. Even so it takes at least an hour and a half to get straight that Ralph and Marian (Matthew Modine and Julianne Moore) are the doctor and painter; Stuart and Claire (Fred Ward and Anne Archer) are the fisherman and professional clown; Ann and Howard (Andie MacDowell and Bruce Davison) are the bereaved parents, and so on, ad nauseum...
Sappington's Slide is savvy show biz; maybe Jerome Robbins should take a bow too. In the finale, Pucci, who was an engaging clown with the Pilobolus troupe during the '80s, lightens things up with cheerful, back-lit aerobics. In a pas de deux that manages to be both steamy and droll, he may be offering an opinion on pointe work, particularly when he has the ballerina (Jodie Gates) aim her toe shoe into her prostrate partner's mouth...
After receiving grant money from several research groups Keasey spent 28 days diving off a five square-mile island and filming the reproductive customs of the clown fish for research on her biology thesis. Keasy lived in cabins along with other biological researchers and dove three times daily with an assistant...