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...there on the highways," he says. "Anything can happen out there." Vehicles are continually bearing down on him, and eluding them requires a special dexterity and alertness. Says Shaw: "Anyone who thinks it's all fun out there is crazy. I may look like a clown, but it's always a life-or-death situation...
...classic clown, hoofer, hit lyricist (Georgy Girl), pop-music headliner and Shakespearean actor, Jim Dale began with a simple ambition. When he was nine, his father took him to a London music hall. "We sat up in the gods [top balcony], and everyone onstage looked an inch high," Dale recalls. "But I was looking at the audience. I never saw 2,000 people laugh before, and I felt so happy for that little bloke onstage. I thought then: What I want to do is make people laugh...
Maybe, but the kaleidoscope of comedy that is Jim Dale keeps on shifting. Right now he is more enthusiastic about doing another Days of Wine and Roses. He explains, "If I can crawl as a clown and make them laugh, it should not take much more to crawl as an alcoholic and make them...
...sizes too small for my head. At the time I confess I wasn't aware of the foul-up, but when I saw none of my neighbors wearing similar get-ups, I got a little concerned. "Oh, god! I'm a freak," I thought. "I'll look like a clown with this ridiculous cap, the velvet stripes on the sleeves, and the purple curlicues on the front...
...cradle, exploding from a stack of wheat bundles. At 36, Nureyev has acquired a new maturity; his dancing is less mannered. In solo work he seems eerily to be improvising-as if he were taking each leap for the first time. And he is trying out new roles: clown prince, for instance, rather than swan prince...