Word: clowned
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...movie Leave 'Em Laughing, Cooper found that Rooney, 60, "still prepares for a scene by cracking people up on the set with funny, sometimes raunchy stories-right up to the moment I yelled 'Action!' " In the film, Rooney portrays the late Jack Thum, a Chicago clown who struggled to support the 37 homeless children he and his wife took in. The role was a natural for Rooney, an inveterate clown who "loves children...
...four actors playing Aladdin are supposed to embody different aspects of his character. Some do--Jeannie Affelder, with her melancholy clown's face and breathily resonant voice, touchingly conveys the pain of protean identity, and Rodman Flender does well with Aladdin's ironic side. Kevin Avery and Paul Warner--though able performers--do not realize markedly different dimensions of the character. Although the protagonist's multiplicity robs the show of a central performer with whom one could empathize, the four Aladdin's intriguingly suggest an entire universe within a single body. (More's the pity that some people go through...
...lavendar, orange, turquoise and pink; big ribbons on sleeves, cuffs and collars; droopy ruffles, fringe, textured velvet and clunky platform shoes on all the men. Of course, 300 years ago, people dressed with excessive ornamentation by today's standard, but the costumes, far from evoking the period, resemble ancient clown suits. They result from a mistaken conception of Moliere's time. Perhaps designer Dru Minton Clark simply concurs with what many believe it was like. But if he intended to exaggerate and underline the farce, he leaves, instead, the impression of grave misinterpretation, grave misinterpretation...
...Circus Clown...
...know, movies are different. What looks like a character's final tribute from a theater balcony be comes, in movie closeup, an autopsy. And Lemmon, by re-creating his stage performance, has created another, more pitiable Scottie. Lemmon still articulates a lexicon of frayed hopes through his sad-clown face, still works the crowd like an aging but adept masseur. But this Scottie is no longer a man one would care to spend an evening drinking with, or even observing. He chokes on his own gag lines; he straitjackets his son (Robby Benson) in a slapstick embrace. The audience...