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Much of the credit for the Kings' elevation from ice follies clown to league tough guy belongs to Goaltender Rogatien Vachon, 29. With the eight-year veteran finally in his prime, the Kings have limited opponents to 85 goals this season, by far the fewest in the N.H.L. Vachon has appeared in two-thirds of the Kings' games, allowing one goal or less 19 times...
...history are written, Tucker will rank among the golden dozen." He sang 32 leading roles, appearing in 503 Met performances. Tucker himself claimed sovereignty over but a single role: "Of course I can sing it better than anyone else," he said with disarming candor about his portrayal of the clown Canio in Pagliacci. "There isn't another tenor in the world who can equal me just singing...
Tops in Taps. Brooks is a 24-hour clown who never stops performing. On the set, directing one of his own gags, he crumples to the floor and lies there clutching his sides with laughter. Between takes he lurches into an imaginary swordfight with one of his actors. Minutes later he is airily winging it through Gene Kelly's Singin 'in the Rain dance sequence, crying at top volume, "Fellini and Dick Lester are great directors, but are they tops in taps...
Moms, in short, is a broad and earthy clown. The script of Amazing Grace, however, calls on her mostly to be goodhearted and forward-looking and does not allow her enough wry humor. "That woman would make coffee nervous," she mutters at one point, one of the best lines in a movie notably short on them...
...probably the roughest caricature of Gerald Ford ever seen in a major U.S. publication: New York magazine last week ran a cover of the President as Bozo the Clown. Some journalists quickly questioned New York's taste and timing in running the burlesque just when Ford was on a national mission abroad. But after the WIN buttons, the list of undistinguished nominations, the drift, the constant domestic travels, the bloopers and the gaffes, few could deny that New York's article inside had brought to the fore some basic questions about the President's capacity...