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There will always be reviewers who feed the industry with free advice or easy quotes. Some, like Medved, think they are doing their job. Others like to see their prose in 96-point type ("The Citizen Kane of alcoholic clown movies") or work for magazines that savor free publicity in a movie ad ("Peter Travers, Rolling Stone"). But in their little black hearts, ! critics know they have scant individual power. "In order to effectively buy critics," Schickel says, "a studio would have to buy 10 or 20 of them...
These hatreds are harnessed by a variety of movements, many of them grouped under an umbrella organization called Pamyat, which preaches a sacred nationalism looking toward an authoritarian Russia purged of all foreign influences. The leader of one such group, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, though widely regarded as a clown, placed third in a field of seven in the Russian presidential election last June -- and that was before the political disintegration and economic collapse had reached anything like their present stage...
...selling potato chips in Liberty, Mo., as Nirvana. But I didn't get the job." Nothing to do but go back to radio, this time in the burgeoning field of talk. He spent four years in Sacramento before moving to New York's WABC in 1988 and becoming the Clown Prince of Conservatism...
RADIO Rush Limbaugh is the clown prince of conservatism...
There is only a bare stage, the magic tricks are purposely corny, and the largest wild animal is made of chairs. The entire troupe, including costumes and apparatus, could fit into a clown car with room left over for a family of four. This is far too modest to be the greatest show on earth. How about something simpler: a one-ring wonder. The sweetest little circus this side of Barnum...