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- From: "Thomas Beck" <trbeck@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 20:38:39 -0500
"Rugby Dan" <rugbydan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/la-na-bozo4-2008jul04,0,
4685433.story
July 3, 2008
From the Los Angeles Times
Larry Harmon, longtime Bozo the Clown, dead at 83
From the Associated Press
6:08 PM EDT, July 3, 2008
Larry Harmon, who turned the character Bozo the Clown into a
show business staple that delighted children for more than a
half-century, died today of congestive heart failure. He was 83.
His publicist, Jerry Digney, told The Associated Press he
died at his home.
Although not the original Bozo, Harmon portrayed the popular
frizzy-haired clown in countless appearances and, as an
entrepreneur, he licensed the character to others,
particularly dozens of TV stations around the country. The
stations in turn hired actors to be their local Bozos.
"You might say, in a way, I was cloning BTC (Bozo the Clown)
before anybody else out there got around to cloning DNA,"
Harmon told the AP in a 1996 interview.
"Bozo is a combination of the wonderful wisdom of the adult
and the childlike ways in all of us," Harmon said.
Pinto Colvig, who also provided the voice for Walt Disney's
Goofy, originated Bozo the Clown when Capitol Records
introduced a series of children's records in 1946. Harmon
would later meet his alter ego while answering a casting
call to make personal appearances as a clown to promote the
records.
He got that job and eventually bought the rights to Bozo.
Along the way, he embellished Bozo's distinctive look: the
orange-tufted hair, the bulbous nose, the outlandish red,
white and blue costume.
"I felt if I could plant my size 83AAA shoes on this planet,
(people) would never be able to forget those footprints," he
said.
The business -- combining animation, licensing of the
character, and personal appearances -- made millions, as
Harmon trained more than 200 Bozos over the years to
represent him in local markets.
"I'm looking for that sparkle in the eyes, that emotion,
feeling, directness, warmth. That is so important," he said
of his criteria for becoming a Bozo.
Sigh - My personal hero and role
model. Gone. Woe as me.
Tom
--
"Ain't it just like the night ..."
.
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