Word: clowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ronald, for Colman). The game of the name made Hoffman a loser from childhood. "I always used to wish there was another Dustin in class," he recalls. "When you're poked fun at?they used to call me 'Dustbin'?you either go inside yourself or become a clown. In seventh grade, I played Tiny Tim because I was the shortest kid in the class. Because a ninth-grader dared me, in front of all the parents at the Christmas show, I said: 'God bless us every one, Goddammit.' I got suspended for that. In high school, the other guys...
London's stately Albert Hall has long been a choice working ground for the piebald bevy of street musicians, sing ers and dancers known as buskers. Let a ticket line form on the sidewalk out side and the buskers were there to clown, sing and fiddle, while their bottlers (assistants) passed the hat for coppers and shillings like Dickensian urchins in the night. Last week there were no buskers on the sidewalk. Instead, 40 of them were inside giving the concert of their lives. And no one had to pass a hat: more than 3,700 persons paid...
...CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 1:30-2:30 p.m.). "Clown and Other Stories" are three award-winning French short films about the fantasies of childhood...
...toured New England with his own bingo game. After four years as a Marine fighter pilot in World War II, he got a degree in speech and drama from Catholic University in Washington, D.C., then moved to Philadelphia, where, among other things, he found a job as a circus clown. It was not long before he was one of Philadelphia's best-known TV personalities. He met Carson on a trip to New York, and Johnny hired him in 1958 as his sidekick on ABC's Who Do You Trust? In 1962 Carson took him along to Tonight...
...Holes ("Or is it the Holy See?" quips John Lennon) was originally intended to go with the Beatle song, Fixing a Hole, which was later dropped from the sound track. It obviously reflects a conscious or subconscious memory of episodes in the movie 2001. The cotton-tailed, clown-faced Nowhere Man is a satire on intellectuals ("So little time, so much to know...