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- <text id=92TT0636>
- <title>
- Mar. 23, 1992: Emmett Killjoy
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 23, 1992 Clinton vs. Tsongas
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 73
- Emmett Killjoy
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Michael Quinn/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> There are those who think nothing quite compares with the
- experience of being entertained by a clown...with the
- possible exception of being trapped inside a kettledrum during
- an all-Sousa concert. Such Bozophobes may welcome Shakes the
- Clown, comedian-borderline hysteric Bobcat Goldthwait's
- film-noir farce that depicts clowns as foulmouthed rummies--much to the horror of the wig-and-whiteface set. Some 150 clowns
- withdrew from opening-day festivities after learning of the
- film's contents. "Helping to promote Shakes the Clown would be
- like a group of doctors promoting a slasher film," says clown
- activist Joe Barney, who dismisses the movie as "clown bashing."
- Goldthwait says he never disliked clowns--until now. "They
- have the same sense of humor as Jesse Helms. It's becoming The
- Last Temptation of Bozo."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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