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...people are of course fascinating. There's sad clown Sammy Spears, the 82-year-old burlesque fixture who mostly just wanders around backstage, eyes staring ahead, his mind seeming little but a vast repository for tired dirty jokes, lips moving silently. But when the spotlight shines on him, he seems to draw the juice of life itself from it, speaking loud and clear, ad-libbing, coaxing laughs from the black beyond the footlights...
...Constant Clown. Barbara Harris plays it all in reverse. She not only has a bosom, she saucily displays it. As a constant nympho in Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, she nearly fell out of her blouse giggling, wiggling and winding around a virginal young man in a nocturnal round of seductio ad absurdum...
...spotted as a talented hoyden and mimic in Second City revues, where she did a host of impressions in a night. If Julie has always seemed all of a piece, Barbara appears as a battalion of selves. Nearly everyone who knows her knows three or four Barbaras-the constant clown, the achingly insecure truth seeker, the girl who's always on, the girl who is lost without a mask...
...Thief! Clown! Animal!" screamed the crowds in Lima's Plaza de Acho, and then, worst of all: "Dancer!" Fumed Bullfight Critic Leonidas Rivera: "There he stood, the most famous matador in Spain, where he just set a record of 111 fights in a single season: a rattled young man trying to get it over with in as short a time and with as little risk to himself as possible. He did not improve things when he kicked the bull in the snout, and he looked simply grotesque when he charged his second bull with head lowered and butted...
...best friends, an icy little hedonist who indifferently lived it up while his children went hungry. Yet at the same time, says Friend FitzGibbon, Dylan was generous, kind, charming and stupendously witty, a genius who failed to become a great poet only because he became a great clown...