Pop Goes The Weasel

Franny Wentzel: 21st Oct 2009 - 18:46 GMT

My thoughts on clowns. from a review I wrote of the Bond flick Octopussy...

www.imdb.com/title/tt0086034/usercomments-138

One of the high points of this movie is in the beginning with the frantic death chase of one of Bond's fellow agents across the Berlin Wall - and I'm pretty sure, past my apartment. The agent is in a clown costume so everyone who enjoys seeing a circus clown get a knife in the back just got their money's worth in the first reel. The clown makes his final exit by - very literally - crashing a party at the British Consulate with a Fabergé egg rolling from his now cold clown hands.

As Dieter from Sprockets would say - Exquisite...

....Not so good is when Bond dons clown attire to attempt to get to the bomb. He doesn't get a knife to the back and clowns are really only enjoyable on the screen when dying a slow excruciating death. But that's just me.

Robert: 21st Oct 2009 - 20:10 GMT

Went to see your comment on Octopussy...
Meanwhile here's another acrylic on canvas clown, the old man at the left is Norman Mailer in the 90s.
Can you guess who the clown is?
How about the other guy ?

Franny Wentzel: 21st Oct 2009 - 22:56 GMT

Your portrayal of clowns disturbs me to the point of insanity...

There... I am insane now...

Now is the time on Sprockets when we dance!

Robert: 22nd Oct 2009 - 03:07 GMT

Reckon she does... probably to the rhythm of Sibelius

Galloping Greg: 22nd Oct 2009 - 04:02 GMT

All these frackin' CLOWNS. Tarnation!!! :-0

Robert: 22nd Oct 2009 - 14:55 GMT

Well, Galloping Greg, don't worry, I'm almost out of fracking clowns, there are only three or four left and I'll post them next year if I'm still around