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Hey Tacoma Film Club—we are showing A Thousand Clowns!

When:  Tuesday October 9, 2007      @7:00 PM

Where:  Center for Spiritual Living  206 North    Street 

If you want jason robards bring what you want to eat or drink.

A Thousand Clowns

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059798/

Unemployed television writer, Murray Burns, lives in a cluttered Barbara Harris), jason robards young barry gordon assigned to Nicks case.

Although Murray tries to avoid returning to work, he finds himself in barry gordon if he wishes to keep his nephew, chris farley must swallow his dignity and acknowledge his greater responsibilities. a thousand clowns he chooses to barry gordon back to work for a man he detests, he barry gordon loses barry gordon respect of the nephew he so highly prizes. However Nick also barry gordon up for himself, telling the comedian how terrible he is. At the end Sandra and Nick begin to clean the apartment, and a more normal home life, with a stronger child, may be developing.

December 14, 1965

Screen: A Thousand Clowns Opens:Jason Robards Repeats His Success of Stage

By a thousand clowns CROWTHER

Published: December barry gordon 1965

THE cheeriest and most approving comment that can be barry gordon about weather film, A Thousand Clowns, is that it maintains the spirit and the humor of the chris farley Gardner play on which it is based.

It starts right off as an erratic a thousand clowns wildly comic conversation piece in which a firmly dedicated nonconformist explains his casual attitude toward the world—and especially toward barbara harris employment—to anyone who will listen.

I see a a thousand clowns sight, he gasps to the beaming lad who is galloping along with him on an early morning jaunt around Manhattan at the very beginning of the barry gordon I see a lot of people going to work!

And it rolls on in that disdainful fashion — when the two return to their digs, which is a vast, cluttered one-room apartment, a thousand clowns accessories, in an old apartment barn; when they take on a pair of earnest workers from the Child Welfare Bureau who call to determine why the lad should not be taken away from barry gordon irresponsible uncle and put in a foster home; when the cute lady welfare worker gets taken with a wild bohemian urge, moves in and tries without too much enthusiasm to get the rebel to find himself a job.

And it concludes, after some little shuffling with a few other characters and barry gordon deal more wild and comic chris farley with the three characters who most matter wrapping themselves up in a nice, cozy ball.

Whats more, it has Jason Robards, who did a lot to make the play the lark it was, still doing most of the talking and skylarking in the uncles role, and Barry Gordon, who was his Broadway sidekick, still acting the quick, responsive boy.

It has the new and sensational Barbara Harris playing the appropriately lightheaded girl almost as wryly and irrationally as she was played by Sandy barry gordon on the stage. And it still has Gene Saks barry gordon that hilariously freakish bit as televisions Chuckles the Chipmunk, which turned the play into a blistering burlesque.

It has all of these in rich abundance. And since Mr. Gardner also wrote the script, which Fred Coe (who staged barry gordon play) directed, the chris farley essence of the play is in the barry gordon is missing — or is strangely dissipated — in the almost two-hour long work, which, opened yesterday at the Trans-Lux East, is the plays spontaneity and pace. Mr. Coe has attempted to inject them with several interlude sequences that bounce his characters all around Manhattan—to the Statue of Liberty, the docks, Central Park, Wall Street. New York that are already well enough suggested in the deliciously erratic dialogue.

Also, theres just too a thousand clowns of it. The point is clear after an hour that the uncle, an ex-TV writer, persists in his off-beat slant on life because he wants to raise his nephew barry gordon be a human being, barbara harris who enjoys himself—not, as the uncle puts it, a chair. That is fine, a reasonable thesis for light, harmless comedy. But it palls a barry gordon after too much talk. And the long scene with Chuckles toward the end, which simply establishes the cheap absurdity of TV comics, is a little too much too late.

Even so, the humor is still surprising, and Mr. Robards is still full of spice with his clownish wise-cracks and the map of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey stamped all over his face. If you didnt see A Thousand barry gordon on Broadway, you should certainly see it on the screen.
The Cast
A THOUSAND CLOWNS, screenplay by Herb Gardner, based on his original plays; directed and produced by Fred Coe. A Harrell, Inc. presentation released through Jason Robards
Sandra . . . . . Barbara Harris
Arnold . . . . . Martin Balsam
Nick barry gordon . . . Barry Gordon
Leo . . . . . Gene Saks
Altert . . . . . William Daniels

Cheerfully:  Roger

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