Word: jestering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...since this director is Mel Gibson (who got his Oscar for Braveheart), the tone isn't always pious. Gibson loves to goof. Playing practical jokes is a way of keeping the crew loose, asserting the primal jester inside the armor of a star's machismo. So to wrap up the temple take, he has a quiet word with Morgenstern and steps back to leave the actress alone--staring dolefully into the camera with a bright-red clown nose he has stuck on her face. Cut. Print. Amen...
...Models of 18th century European commodes on display are more elegant?and equally ingenious: some are disguised as tables, large books and even a globe. Louis XII had a toilet installed in his throne, prompting the court jester to quip that while the French King would only eat in private, he would defecate in public...
...Ablaye Thiam donned his giant jester's hat, balanced a two-foot wide drum on his hip and came looking for a party. He found a doozy on Friday night in Seoul, where in the first game of this year's footy fiesta, tiny Senegal toppled reigning World Cup champs France 1-0. "Today a black African nation has beat a white European champion," said Thiam, who traveled from Senegalese capital Dakar to cheer on the Lions. "There is a god, and I love...
...with that, the man in the jester hat danced a little jig of joy. A pair of passing Korean teenagers, unused to such physical displays of happiness, giggled and asked to have their picture taken with this strange dancing man. Thiam obliged, wrapping his arms around the girls. "Dance with me," he said. The girls responded with a nervous shuffle. Thiam tapped his drum. The girls grew braver and produced a saucy two-step. Thiam grinned and shook their hands. So commenced one of the most improbable starts to any World Cup. The party was officially ready to begin...
...ride a bike to work, Fortuyn's flamboyance was a political statement in itself. He traveled in a Daimler with a fender flag bearing the family crest, employed a butler named Herman, wore tailored Italian suits and oversized ties, and reveled in his homosexuality. "He was like a jester, the one who holds up a mirror to the politicians and says, 'Look, you're ugly,'" notes Arthur Ringeling, a political scientist at Rotterdam's Erasmus University. Raised in a middle-class Catholic family, Fortuyn was a nominal Marxist during his university studies but later joined the Labor Party. With...