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...father was never a clown, he was a trapeze artist and a juggler. My grandfather was a clown. My great-grandfather was an acrobat and a dancer. And before that we really don't know. The latest documentation we have is an 1859 poster where the name of my great-grandfather, Pierre Larible, is printed...
...point of scorn. "How easy it is for a windbag celebrity, who pays no price for being wrong, to throw his fame around and make grand pronouncements," criticized a reader from Georgia. "The court jester may attend important meetings," wrote a Floridian, "but he is still just a clown." Suggested a Louisianian: "If Bono wants to help the poor, he should start by selling his expensive sunglasses and wristwatch. Mother Teresa he's not." And a Minnesotan was downright caustic: "Can Bono save the world? Sure, when Cher cures cancer and Britney Spears has a plan for peace...
...kidding or what? Nikita Kruschev was similarly supposed to scare the daylights out of us, and he did for a while. Then he took off his shoe, whacked it on his desk, and the bad-guy boss started to look an awful lot more like a small-time clown...
...sleep and me playing this devil's advocate with him." Williams prepared for the role by watching tapes of an interview with Jeffrey Dahmer--"to get his conversational tone; it was so calm." Death to Smoochy is a comedy but not a light one. He plays a TV clown who, incensed at being replaced by Smoochy, a big fuchsia rhinoceros, tries to rub out his successor...
...Winners DR. "PATCH" ADAMS Clown doctor administers the gift of laughter to hospitalized Afghan children. His favorite kind of audience: people strapped in beds MOHAMMED ZAHIR SHAH Exiled Afghan King confirms he'll return to the country after 29 years. Turn right at Iran and look for a really big pile of bombed-out rubble ELIZABETH DOLE Robo-lady begins candidacy for Senate, gets fund raising help from Dubya. On their wedding day, she and Bob vowed to run for anything Losers JAY LENO TV host in trouble after he cracks a joke about South Korean dog eating. Other...