clowns in the news

'Kooki The Clown' accused of fraud, theft

Kooki Clowns Off With $500K

Prescott, AZ - Kooki the Clown likes to work carnivals, state fairs, and little old ladies. She enjoys face painting, bereavement counseling, buying things, going on cruises, buying things, updating her Myspace page, and buying more things. Kooki, aka Carrie Williams-Thompson, 48, is accused of stealing over $500,000 of a 90-year-old widow’s money. That’s a lot of face paint.
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Stenchy: Busy?
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are balloon animals art?

Apparently so.

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Energetic 500 Clown troupe isn't entirely about laughs
Over the last seven years, 500 Clown, known for its energetic style that melds clowning with physical theater and circus arts, has developed a following through its always-morphing shows: "500 Clown Macbeth" and "500 Clown Frankenstein." The boundary-smashing ensemble has developed a death-defying style that has company members Molly Brennan, Leslie Buxbaum, Adrian Danzig and Paul Kalina building human ladders, dangling from scaffolding and balancing on narrow ledges. Their goal? To redefine the audience's concept of "clown."
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Creating a new piece of physical theater is not a quick venture. It takes about two years to get a 500 Clown show up and running... (All the seltzer water hijinks probably really slows things down.)
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"We don't take for granted that the audience is the watcher and the performer is the doer," Danzig said. "The result is an interesting connection. It's a living art and will continue to shift as we..." Oh, be quiet.