Clowns

Achille Zavatta (May 6, 1915 - November 16, 1993) was a French clown, artist and circus operator. Achille Zavatta was born in La Goulette, Tunisia, the son of Federico Zavatta, a circus owner. He started performing in his family's circus show at the age of three, forming with his brothers Michel and Rolph, the Zavatta Trio. He became famous as a result of his pantomime skills. He died in 1993 in Ouzouer des Champs, Loiret and ...

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A circus is most commonly a traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts and the word also describes the performance that they give. A circus is held in a oval or circular arena with tiered seating around its circumference; in the case of traveling circuses this location is most often a large tent. The circus is thought to have had its origin in Ancient Rome, where the circus was an open-air stadium where chariot and horse races and other public exhibitions where hel ...

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• Circus - Circus in the ancient world
• Circus - The development of the modern circus
• Circus - Contemporary circus
• Circus - The circus performance
• Circus - Circus acts
• Circus - Animal acts
• Circus - The circus in music plays films and television
• Circus - Notes

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Grock (January 10, 1880, Reconvilier, Switzerland - July 14, 1959, Imperia, Italy), original name Karl (Charles) Adrien Wettach, was a Swiss circus clown whose blunders with the piano and the violin became proverbial. The son of a watchmaker, he became an amateur acrobat and was allowed to spend each summer with a circus, where he performed first as a tumbler and then as a violinist, pianist, and xylophonist. He became the partner of a clown named Brick and changed his name to Grock in 1903. Together they appeared in Fra ...

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Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin (Russian: Юрий Владимирович Никулин; 18 December 1921 – 21 August 1997) was a well-known Russian clown and actor who played in many popular films. Nikulin served in the Soviet Army during the Great Patriotic War and the Winter War with Finland. Once the war ended, he applied to several acting schools and theatres but was rejected due to "lacking artistic talent". Then he got accepted into the Moscow Circus on the Flower Boulevard and worked ...

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Glenn, whose full legal name consists of the single word "Glenn," is an American performer and artist. As a clown he was known variously as "Bongo", "Bongo the Clown", or "The Great Bongo". Glenn - Background. Glenn was born Glenn Harding Englert on February 12, 1957 in Arlington, Texas to Edith Englert and Richard Englert. Richard Englert is also known as Rusty Harding, the "boomerang engineer." Glenn legally changed his name, removing both his last name and middle name, shortly after his father "di ...

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Glenn has created artworks in numerous categories: sculpture, from palm trees to earthworks to twisted wire; fiber and fabric assemblies; found art; woven 'blankets' of urban detritus; glass assemblies, and stained glass; splattered paint; computer graphics; spiderwebs and shadow boxes. Glenn manufactured (for another artist, whose art it is) a massive sculptural construction made primarily of thick bulletproof glass which is part ...

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The episode begins with Buffy having a nightmare about going to The Master's lair and being choked by him. Her mother shakes her awake, and as Buffy wakes up she is excited to be spending the coming weekend with her father. Buffy confides to Willow that she thinks she might have something to do with her parents' divorce. In a class, when the teacher asks Wendell to read from the text book, Tarantualas crawl out of it. Buff ...

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Adrian Monk, graduate of University of California, Berkeley, was originally a detective of the San Francisco Police Department. Due to an unusual upbringing (the scope of which has not yet been revealed), Monk grew up with a variety of quirks and tics. After the murder of his wife, Trudy, and his inability to solve it (the only case in his career Monk has never been able to solve), Monk suffered a nervous breakdown, and his eccentricities manifested themselves as obsessive compulsive disorder, which cost him his job. He refused to leave his ...

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Circus - Circus in the ancient world. In Ancient Rome the circus was a building for the exhibition of horse and chariot races, equestrian shows, staged battles, displays featuring trained exotic animals, jugglers and acrobats and other amusements. The circus of Rome is thought to have been influenced by the Egyptians and Greeks where chariot racing and the exhibition of exotic animals were popular events. The Roman circus consisted of tiers of seats running parallel with the sides of the course, and forming a cre ...

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Glenn has created artworks in numerous categories: sculpture, from palm trees to earthworks to twisted wire; fiber and fabric assemblies; found art; woven 'blankets' of urban detritus; glass assemblies, and stained glass; splattered paint; computer graphics; spiderwebs and shadow boxes. Glenn manufactured (for another artist, whose art it is) a massive sculptural construction made primarily of thick bulletproof glass which is part ...

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The atmosphere of the circus has served as a dramatic setting for many musicians and writers. The famous circus theme song "Thunder and Blazes" is actually called "Entrance of the Gladiators", and was composed in 1904 by Julius Fučík. Other circus music includes "El Caballero", "Quality Plus", "Sunnyland Waltzes", "The Storming of El Caney", "Pahjamah", "Bull Trombone", "Big Time Boogie", "Royal Bridesmaid March", and "Pageant of Progress". There were many talented and prolific composers of circus music, such as Karl King, Henry Fillmore, Charlie Duble, ...

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Circus, Circus - History of the circus, Circus - Circus in the ancient world, Circus - The development of the modern circus, Circus - Contemporary circus, Circus - The circus performance, Circus - Circus acts, Circus - Animal acts, Circus - The circus in music, plays, films, and television, Circus - Notes

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Buffy's psychic dreams, mentioned in "Welcome to the Hellmouth", show up once again here, showing her how she will die in "Prophecy Girl". Willow's stage fright, mentioned in the last episode, is shown again, and not for the last time (the musical and "Restless" are two more examples). Giles's nightmare comes true in "The Gift", where we see Buffy's headstone, and Buffy crawls out of her grave in a manner resembling how she will do the same in "Bargaining". When things go from the physical to the mental, Xander is the only one (apparently in ...

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Between June, 1980 and the mid-1990s, "Bongo" gained notoriety as both a "producing clown" and as a founding member of the award-winning North Valley Clown Alley. During this period he created a major innovation to the design of the ancient toy/juggling prop, the Devil stick, which he called fiddlestix. By freely circulating the secrets of his design to other jugglers, he placed his invention into the public domain, thereby "protecting it for free". His design was further refined in a collaboration with two other innovative sti ...

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Glenn, Glenn - Background, Glenn - Tax Resistance, Glenn - Sculptor/Artist, Glenn - Performance Art, Glenn - Appearances, Glenn - Private Life, Glenn - Quotes

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The atmosphere of the circus has served as a dramatic setting for many musicians and writers. The famous circus theme song "Thunder and Blazes" is actually called "Entrance of the Gladiators", and was composed in 1904 by Julius Fučík. Other circus music includes "El Caballero", "Quality Plus", "Sunnyland Waltzes", "The Storming of El Caney", "Pahjamah", "Bull Trombone", "Big Time Boogie", "Royal Bridesmaid March", and "Pageant of Progress". There were many talented and prolific composers of circus music, such as Karl King, Henry Fillmore, Charlie Duble, Ru ...

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Circus, Circus - History of the circus, Circus - Circus in the ancient world, Circus - The development of the modern circus, Circus - Contemporary circus, Circus - The circus performance, Circus - Circus acts, Circus - Animal acts, Circus - The circus in music plays films and television, Circus - Notes

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Between June, 1980 and the mid-1990s, "Bongo" gained notoriety as both a "producing clown" and as a founding member of the award-winning North Valley Clown Alley. During this period he created a major innovation to the design of the ancient toy/juggling prop, the Devil stick, which he called fiddlestix. By freely circulating the secrets of his design to other jugglers, he placed his invention into the public domain, thereby "protecting it for free". His design was further refined in a collaboration with two other innovative sti ...

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Glenn, Glenn - Background, Glenn - Tax status, Glenn - Sculptor/Artist, Glenn - Performance Art, Glenn - Appearances, Glenn - Private Life, Glenn - Quotes

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Glenn appeared in the Roger Corman movie Overdrive as the pit crewman in the fight scene at the racetrack and appears briefly in the strip club scene. As Bongo, he appeared in the Hallowe'en video Frankenstein and the All-Star Monster Band. Sans whiteface, Glenn's devilstick juggling was featured in an appearance on the second incarnation of The Gong Show, Extreme Gong, a show that uses audience telephone votes to rate performances. Though he wasn't "gonged", and was encouraged to continue his performance i ...

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Glenn, Glenn - Background, Glenn - Tax status, Glenn - Sculptor/Artist, Glenn - Performance Art, Glenn - Appearances, Glenn - Private Life, Glenn - Quotes

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Glenn appeared in the Roger Corman movie Overdrive as the pit crewman in the fight scene at the racetrack and appears briefly in the strip club scene. As Bongo, he appeared in the Hallowe'en video Frankenstein and the All-Star Monster Band. Sans whiteface, Glenn's devilstick juggling was featured in an appearance on the second incarnation of The Gong Show, Extreme Gong, a show that uses audience telephone votes to rate performances. Though he wasn't "gonged", and was encouraged to continue his performance i ...

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Glenn, Glenn - Background, Glenn - Tax Resistance, Glenn - Sculptor/Artist, Glenn - Performance Art, Glenn - Appearances, Glenn - Private Life, Glenn - Quotes

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Monk TV series - Emmy Awards. 2003 award for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series (Tony Shalhoub) 2003 award for outstanding main title theme music (Jeff Beal) 2004 nomination for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series (Tony Shalhoub) 2004 award for outstanding guest actor in a comedy series (John Turturro) 2004 award for outstanding main title theme music ("It's a Jungle Out There" by Randy Newman) 2004 nomination for outstanding casting for a comedy ser ...

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In order of severity, from most to least, Monk's "Top Nine List" of his most severe phobias are: Germs (Misophobia, Molysmophobia, Molysomophobia, Mysophobia, Verminophobia) Needles (Aichmophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia) Milk (Lactophobia) Dying (necrophobia) Snakes (Ophidiophobia) Mushrooms (mycophobia) Heights (Acrophobia, Altophobia) Crowds (Agoraphobia)See also:

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The original two hour pilot was commissioned by ABC, originally as a vehicle for Michael Richards, who dropped out after reading the script for the pilot. Afterward, they weren't certain about the series and handed it off to USA Network. As part of the deal, ABC got the right to air repeats of the series after the episodes ran on USA. ABC used some episodes to fill in its summer schedule and got respectable ratings. Technically, the deal is still in place, but with USA Network being bought by NBC/Universal, the odds of e ...

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