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...Long live the clown! He conducts a symphony with perfection of tempo, theme variation and delicate shading of tone. Laughter is music. Play on, Maestro Flip! Play your tunes, play your roles, and play to the children...
...representation of the body's juices - the tongue (bringing out the insides) - which doubles as a heart and a foot . . . The ice bag on the head signifies that the subject was on my mind ... I alternated between the image of a magician and that of a clown, trying to make a combination...
...situations are black, but his humor is universal. He has the talent to make blacks laugh without anger and whites laugh without guilt. "Flip touches more comic bases than anyone else," says Actor and Playwright Ossie Davis (Purlie Victorious). "He retains some of the tradition of the clown as against the comic. A comic is a personality who deals with verbal delivery and usually with bland topics like mothers-in-law and taxes. A clown is a character complete unto himself. Flip Wilson can create characters who stand on their own. He is the most versatile comic spirit in America...
...fortress begins." Few members of his show's staff have ever seen the inside of his home, a two-bedroom colonial that he rents in the Hollywood Hills. His awards-which include two Emmys-are placed in front of his bed. facing a brass statue of a clown, a gift from his friend Redd Foxx...
Seriously, why is the Crimson giving this clown so much coverage? Isn't the joke wearing a bit thin? Maybe you ought to pep the story up with an interview with his girl friend. John Q. Johnson...