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...Roses, watching alcoholic fumes rise from the wreck of his career and marriage. In The Apartment and many pictures that followed (The Out-of-Towners, Save the Tiger, The China Syndrome, JFK), he played a businessman in danger of being betrayed by his own best instincts--the sad-clown face of America at the twilight of its imperial reign, the Organization Man whom the organization would crush. Lemmon in his maturity was Job with a white-collar...
...like to call him Bello Nock--his clown name and his family name. Although he doesn't act like it, Bello, who keeps his real first name secret, is aristocracy. Members of the Nock family (their performance roots date back to the 18th century in Switzerland) have been circus artists and great clowns for generations. I saw Bello's uncle Pio Nock in the Ringling show when I was 22, and I applied immediately to the Ringling Bros. Clown College. Bello's thoroughly American accent--he speaks many languages, but all of them like a guy from Florida, which...
...Kankakee, Ill., wrote for five tickets to Bozo's Circus in 1977. She expected to give birth a few more times and didn't want any of her not-yet-conceived children to miss out on the chance to be part of the beloved TV show. The yak-haired clown with the red nose and floppy shoes had provided Breault with some of her favorite childhood memories, and she longed to sit in the studio bleachers with her own kids. By the time her tickets finally came, eight years later, she and her husband had three daughters, and they...
Introduced in 1946 on a kids' record album by former Capital Records executive Alan Livingston, Bozo debuted on Los Angeles TV three years later, played by Pinto Colvig, who had provided the voice on the records. During the clown's heyday in the mid-'60s, 183 different TV Bozos entertained kids in almost every major U.S. city, as well as countries from Brazil to Thailand. His popularity even prompted a dispute over authorship. Larry Harmon, an early Bozo who bought the rights to the character in 1956, for years promoted himself as Bozo's creator, until Livingston and others exposed...
...Bozo TV shows, Chicago's was probably the most elaborate. At its creative height, it had a 13-piece orchestra and guest circus acts, including sword swallowers and trapeze artists. There was also lots of familial repartee between Bozo and his clown sidekicks. In 1990 five years of tickets were given out in just five hours via a phone hot line that logged 27 million calls within Illinois alone...