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...used to be addicted to overcoming things. Now, my goal is to get out of my own way." Konchalovsky offers a convincing appraisal of what may be her greatest gift: "There are very few performers who can be convincingly happy onscreen, but Shirley radiates happiness. She is a clown, a genius of a clown. In every part in which she was fantastic, there was a combination of sentimentality and fun, a Charlie Chaplin cocktail. You can learn techniques, you can learn how to cry real tears. But you cannot learn how to radiate...
Relying on personal experience, Sabath adds that he purposely steered his portrayal of Tevye away from Zero Mostel's acclaimed rendition of the character. "I think that Mostel perhaps did a little too much comedy with Tevye. He played him too much like a clown so that the audience was laughing at him rather than with him. I try to play the character with a little more pathos...
...point, is certainly familiar. "The galleries have been mostly our own vintage," says Palmer, who earned $106,590 last year. "But the younger set is starting to be attracted too." Though carts are essential for some and permissible for all, Palmer does not approve. So Creamy Carolan, his clown-faced old caddie, 68, is sometimes alone against the machines. Says Creamy: "All I have is memories...
...struggle to get myself free. Only the space of one day, morning, noon, night, to bring such change! It was there, the trap I had tried to avoid-and would avoid!-the bitter sorrow of a love that is fruitless, pointless, hopeless, agonizing and ridiculous. Once more, the clown's trousers had fallen down...
...that the hearing be held under quieter circumstances. I don't mind being questioned, hectored even, but it is discomfiting to have to answer sharply in full view of the world. It is easier to administer humiliation in public than to accept it. Besides, a circus atmosphere elicits the clown in all of us. It is difficult, when on camera, not to play to the gallery. This cheapens the process, distorts the results, and causes otherwise thoughtful persons to make damn fools of themselves...