The first time Spider-Man met Daredevil, in fact, Spidey was hypnotized by an evil circus ringmaster called … The Ringmaster, who promptly sicced Peter Parker on a nonplussed Man Without Fear.
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He's no keyboard introvert; he's a ringmaster who loves spreadsheets.
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So if this freak show needs anything, it's a ringmaster.
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Harrison, the ringmaster of this particular circus, gets Chase his closure.
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Later, a battle concludes between the ringmaster and the space witch.
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It's still a circus, but Trump is now the unquestioned ringmaster.
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And perhaps Mr. Roy can serve as ringmaster for both of them.
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Circus, led by only child and ringmaster Max Medici (Danny Devito), is floundering.
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Instead, like the reality show ringmaster he is, Trump reportedly encouraged the fighting.
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The uprising also had its own ringmaster in Vaclav Havel, politician, philosopher, playwright.
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Given the ringmaster microbiota's location, it is thought to play a role in obesity.
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There were almost no human characters in the original "Dumbo," besides the unseen ringmaster.
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This year, guests confront the circus ringmaster, who's several stories tall and utterly terrifying.
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Wendy Williams turned her talk show into the circus for Halloween — and she's the ringmaster!
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Just this week, the first-ever female ringmaster, made her circus debut in Orlando, Florida.
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Owner Franco Nuschese considers himself the "ringmaster" at the long-running culinary circus in Georgetown.
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"This is going to require more than one ringmaster to do it well," he said.
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Donald J. Trump, the ringmaster of 2016, will not always dominate the American political imagination.
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That scheme failed, but he prevailed in 2016 when he proved himself an adroit ringmaster.
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"Marion was the ringmaster," Dan Gelber, who later served as the House Democratic minority leader, said.
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LOS ANGELES — It was a typical Tuesday for Chris Hardwick, the excitable ringmaster of nerd culture.
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Mr. La Cour plays the roles created by Robbins himself: the ringmaster who cracks the whip.
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Inside the arena, the ringmaster strutted, and the horses — or maybe they were unicorns — galloped by.
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In his final weeks presiding over the House, Mr. Bercow seemed as much ringmaster as disciplinarian.
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During his career, Ellis has established himself as a cantankerous yet witty ringmaster in the courtroom.
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Besides, the ringmaster was a woman: in slick-cut tails and a ruffled sheer white blouse.
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"It's traumatic!" says Johnathan Lee Iverson, who became Ringling Bros.' first African-American ringmaster 18 years ago.
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Then Trump comes along, sees all these people, and says, 'I'll be the ringmaster in your circus!
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Kurtis, on the other hand, was dressed as a ringmaster, sporting a red coat and top hat.
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John was a champion girlfriend accumulator, the ringmaster of a romantic circus that only he could see.
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When Mr. Binder retired as ringmaster in 2008, his departure occasioned an editorial in The New York Times.
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Every circus needs its ringmaster, and here it is Scott Zeiger, an alumnus of concert promoting, Ringling Bros.
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Apart from the Litvinenkos, the main character is Mr Putin, who emerges as a kind of sinister ringmaster.
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We are in a war over what kind of country we want, with Trump as the demonic ringmaster.
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Abby Lee Miller, founder of the Abby Lee Dance Company, was both the show's ringmaster and pot-stirrer.
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Humanity turned out to be the purposeful but often drunken ringmaster of a three-ring circus of organisms.
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Kimberly Strassel, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, called Brennan a "ringmaster" in shaping the Russian interference narrative.
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I worried about my ability to be the ringmaster of this circus of deadlines, school projects and sippy cups.
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Glover was wearing a white T-shirt and a brown wool cape and pants, like an off-duty ringmaster.
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Luminous and dapper, Strole (biologically 70 years old; "ageless" in spirit), has the puffed-chest posture of a circus ringmaster.
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The film is full of one-liners and metatextual winks at the superhero genre, and Reynolds is its smirking ringmaster.
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He is the circus ringmaster who creates all sorts of spectacles to divert attention away from his own disqualifying inadequacies.
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The actor previously played the Penguin in Batman Returns and ringmaster Amos Calloway in Big Fish, two Burton-directed projects.
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If it can be aspirational and inspirational and still watchable, then I'm happy to be the ringmaster of that circus.
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And Simplehuman's Sensor Mirror Pro works with the ringmaster of the smart home, the Amazon Echo and its Alexa app.
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Ringmaster Iverson appeared beside his own family at the end of the show and thanked the audience to deafening applause.
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A man in cargo shorts, whom the ringmaster had pulled from the audience, was dancing in front of everybody—mortifying!
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Now, they are all part of the same racist, sexist, transphobic, Muslim and Mexican-hating circus, and he's the ringmaster.
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But for sterner historians, it's worth noting that our ringmaster in "Wonderland" plays fast and loose with his central definition.
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I think that's how you wanted it — you'd be the manager, the ringmaster, and we'd be the ponies, turning your tricks.
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Ringmaster Norman Barrett rehearses with his budgerigars ahead of a matinee performance at Zippo's Circus in Glasgow, Scotland, on June 15.
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She's got the air of a jaded circus ringmaster with that cropped tuxedo jacket and weird feather thing in her hand.
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I saw him as a sort of ringmaster or magician, always pulling rabbits out of his hat, always something going on.
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Though we've yet to see Gaga alongside tigers and elephants, it's true that she's a ringmaster of sorts whenever she's performing onstage.
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He cherishes being the ringmaster of a three-ring circus, and there's nothing about his ego that suggests he'd ever step down.
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Models wore dramatic tulle ruffs, tailored ringmaster jackets, sheer organza shirts with billowing balloon sleeves and eyeliner that evoked Pierrot the clown.
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He was presiding over the dining room in the manner of a ringmaster, a host for the ages, greeting everyone in sight.
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He is the ringmaster of a campaign circus that last week featured Mr. Johnson punching the air with vacuum-packed smoked herring.
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An earlier version of a picture caption with this article misspelled the given name of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey ringmaster.
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Fans can also expect to see a live ringmaster, tarot card reader machine and the actual jacket and bike from the "Circus" tour.
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There's not much in the way of set or lighting and no ringmaster to call the shots, the better to showcase this expertise.
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Hugh Jackman's the ringmaster of this disjointed affair, though it's not entirely his fault Barnum's the least interesting part of his own movie.
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The chief usher's job is to make day-to-day White House life look effortless -- they're part ringmaster, part palace guard, part consigliere.
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Its ringmaster, Ty McFarlan, introduces a cavalcade of acts, including Nik Wallenda on the high wire and the Flying Tunizianis on the trapeze.
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"Trump is the star of his own three-ring circus in Washington, but there is no doubt who the ringmaster actually is," he said.
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Ever the trickster, Dylan in the Rolling Thunder Revue was many things: folk singer, songwriter, rock star, bandleader, protester, actor, ringmaster, caballero, hero, joker.
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The couple's 9-year-old twins, Gideon Scott and Harper Grace, were there to support their dad, who was the celebrity ringmaster for the night.
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And soon, like a true ringmaster, he gave the people what they wanted — three real, live veterans who came onstage to speak to the crowd.
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Appearing onstage in his trademark Hawaiian shirts, he regularly wows audiences with tech demos, directing Spot to jump, trot, and dance, like a robot ringmaster.
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Big Apple Circus was founded in 1977 by Paul Binder, who served as ringmaster and artistic director for more than three decades, and Michael Christensen.
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The animation illustrates a story told by Jamie DeWolf, a writer and circus ringmaster, about the 1999 disappearance of a young girl named Xiana Fairchild.
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For years, Mr. Stern was known principally for pushing the limits of taste as the ringmaster of a raunchy circus of pranksters, oddballs and strippers.
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And not just any co-conspirator, he's the ringmaster of this conspiracy and he's going to be sitting down at the table with Donald Trump.
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It could also cultivate a stable of other performers — Mr. Colbert also worked well as ringmaster and hype man for Mr. Stewart and Ms. Benanti.
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The cheerleader, if not the ringmaster, in this effort is President Trump, who took to Twitter on Wednesday to criticize OPEC for high crude prices.
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I found some of the statements to be inspiring, but at the end of the day, the ringmaster must be thrown out of the circus.
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She fires up a rivalry with Debbie Eagan (played by Nurse Jackie's Betty Gilpin) and forges a bond with ringmaster Sam Sylvia, played by Maron.
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And while the voluble Benioff makes a perfect ringmaster for this circus, it might be more valuable to pay attention to a much quieter Salesforce exec.
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The Tramp joins the circus and falls in love with Kennedy's character, a horse rider who has a bad relationship with her father, the circus ringmaster.
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For their 2017 family ensemble — posed in front of a carnival backdrop — Harris took on the role of ringmaster, while Burtka dressed as a creepy clown.
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This New York institution, rescued from bankruptcy in 2017, returns with a twist: Now, the ringmaster is a ringmistress: Stephanie Monseu of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus.
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HOUSTON — The running backs were known simply by their initials: L. T. and T. D. The quarterback served as ringmaster for the Greatest Show on Turf.
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Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party and ringmaster of the Brexit vote, appeared as a warm-up act at one of Mr Trump's rallies.
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More ringmaster than wordsmith, he released three studio albums as part of the duo Timbaland & Magoo, and three more as a solo artist, most recently in 2009.
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It has also taken a tricky decision off Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plate, and patched up his credibility as ringmaster at a critical climate summit in November.
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Credit...Anna Watts for The New York Times Storm Marrero is the first Afro-Latina singing ringmaster for the Big Apple Circus, which is running through Feb.
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In "Sideshow," we see five musicians, a young, preening buffoon or jester and their suave, watchful barker-ringmaster (a fair likeness of Ferdinand Corvi, the owner, himself).
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But it is the only way he knows to drink in the spotlight, to win favor, to feel what it is like, once again, to be the ringmaster.
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Federal Judge Thomas Selby Ellis III will carry on the tradition of the legendary ringmaster as he presides over the first trial from the special counsel's Russia probe.
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At once calculating, charming and cryptic, Fassbender serves as macabre ringmaster to a tale that oftentimes veers Frankenstein — with some Lord of the Flies thrown in for good measure.
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Ringmaster Johnathan Lee Iverson paid a fitting tribute to the elephants, telling the crowd, "This is a very emotional time for us" as the performance drew to a close.
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Meet Manafort trial ringmaster T.S. Ellis At the end of the day, Ellis snapped at prosecutor Brandon Van Grack as he started to describe another document for the jury.
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Meet Manafort trial ringmaster T.S. Ellis The exchange happened as the prosecution neared the end of presenting its case against Manafort, which is expected to wrap up on Friday.
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He has programmed short films, moderated panels with filmmakers and actors and served as a "ringmaster," standing up before screenings to thank sponsors and ask that cellphones be silenced.
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This is a fact that Madeline, the ringmaster of the "let's say he slipped" circus, takes as a personal affront — the same way she takes pretty much everything else.
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The tale of the Carnival of Doom focuses on the evil ringmaster of the show, Mr. Top Hat, as he spooks the new society in the three-part series.
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There are small cups of chemicals like borax and up front, a ringmaster in the form of a 16-year-old girl: Jacqueline Means, known locally as the STEM Queen.
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"So I am the ringmaster to a circus called The Wendy Show for 11 years," Williams said at the top of her show as she sat in her purple chair.
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As most of the crowd already knew, it was Lady Bunny, Wigstock's buxom, potty-mouthed founder and ringmaster, wearing a kimono-sleeved metallic-gold minidress and a towering blond bouffant.
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Graydon Carter's 25-year tenure at Vanity Fair, which he announced on Thursday would come to a close in December, established him as a ringmaster of Hollywood and Manhattan society.
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Thousands of species of microbes exist throughout the body, including on the skin, up the nose and in male and female genitals, but its "ringmaster" exists in the gut, Proctor said.
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Ringling's customers tend to be parents wanting to pass along a rite from their own childhoods — the smell of the sawdust, the drippy snow cone, the booming voice of the ringmaster.
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Who doesn't remember their first circus — the razzle-dazzle of the ringmaster, the thrill of the flying trapeze and the animal acts, the awe of gazing up into the big top?
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Mr. Enberg played the welcoming and well-prepared ringmaster to two distinct, opinionated and stubborn personalities: Mr. McGuire, a former coach at Marquette University, was given to flights of verbal fancy.
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"Dogs would never do that mirror jump," the ringmaster, Vicki Shields, said as she riffled through a box full of shiny, feathery wands used to entice the cats through the obstacles.
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From Nagini's first scene, it's evident that she is trapped, under the control of the circus ringmaster and painted as an exotic creature (another harmful Asian female stereotype Rowling unwittingly plays into).
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But Steyn said Simberg "has a point," calling Mann's hockey stick graph "fraudulent," and labeling him "the very ringmaster of the tree-ring circus," referring to the tree-ring observations Mann used.
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But the difference here is how willingly Trump is stoking the flames, acting as a ringmaster of his own transition and behaving in a way that could charitably be described as misdirection.
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They're both as busy as ever in their careers: Perlman costars with Diane Keaton in the upcoming movie Poms, while DeVito stars as ringmaster Max Medici in Dumbo, directed by Tim Burton.
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It's the kinetic, wire-and-collage miniature circus, complete with a full cast of characters, from ringmaster to strongman, that has been one of the ornaments of the Whitney Museum since 1971.
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If the goal was to hijack Kaepernick's protest against police brutality and turn it into another Trumpian carnival with himself as both ringmaster and star of the show, then the president succeeded.
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In antique stores, original ones can fetch $75 or more, said Kristopher Kyer, an actor and former circus ringmaster who runs a seasonal boutique called Kristopher Kyer's Christmas Corner in Burbank, Calif.
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And if anyone can be thought of as the ringmaster in this noisy legal circus, it is Mr. Cohen's chief nemesis, Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for the pornographic film star Stephanie Clifford.
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"Circus 1903," directed by Neil Dorward, begins as the ringmaster, the mischievous David Williamson, makes his way through the crowd with a tray holding popcorn that he's more likely to lob than vend.
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You'll spy Michael Keaton as ringmaster V. A. Vandemere, Eva Green as performer Colette Marchant, a snippet of the acid-washed "Pink Elephants" scene, and our first glimpse of Dumbo flying like a boss.
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After crashing at his parents' apartment first, he soon rented a room at 46 Charles Street and gave live circus performances there with his cast of miniature elephants and acrobats, starring himself as ringmaster.
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But it also served as a prequel of sorts for his improbable next act as a presidential nominee, who next week will return to prime time as the ringmaster of the Republican National Convention.
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Mr. Iconis, the 34-year-old ringmaster of these revels, is a prolific songwriter in the tuneful, talky Jonathan Larson mode who has been circling Broadway for a number of years without yet landing.
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It offers a suave, almost theatrical mood – like I should be a slightly subdued circus ringmaster, or, when it's paired with a black velvet pencil skirt, a sixties secretary with delusions of beatnik grandeur.
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When he steps down in December, Mr. Carter will leave the role that established him as a celebrity in his own right and a ringmaster of the spheres of Hollywood, Washington and Manhattan media.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Harlequins and Pierrot clowns entertained at Christian Dior's Haute Couture catwalk show in Paris on Monday, as models sporting ruffs, sequined dresses and ringmaster jackets paraded through a circus tent, surrounded by acrobats.
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The hit 2017 movie musical followed the story of ringmaster P.T. Barnumf (Jackman, 50) as he went above and beyond to put on the most extraordinary show, often at the expense of his personal life.
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Former intelligence officials here said that the Belgians were apparently unaware that the presumed ringmaster of the attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, one of the most wanted terrorists in Europe, was on their soil before the attacks.
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He's traded in the tabloid sensationalism of emotion, outrage, anger and dripped-out intrigue over coming decisions, and has peeled off stinging attacks on political rivals, acting as the ringmaster of his own news circus.
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A ringmaster of sorts opened the performance by thanking the audience for "slumming it in this neighborhood," namely La Chapelle, a neighborhood near the busy Gare du Nord train station with a significant migrant population.
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When the ringmaster, Johnathan Lee Iverson, first saw the circus as a 9-year-old at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, he could have sworn that the spangled horses that galloped there were real unicorns.
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HONG KONG — For six days a week, every week, in a crowded office in Kazakhstan's largest city, Serikzhan Bilash had been ringmaster of one of the most influential efforts detailing China's internment of Muslim minorities.
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And at the center you had Jeff, managing the Survivor circus like an expert ringmaster, never letting the contestants off the hook, but also giving them the power to decide the fate of their own games.
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Yet this alone does not fully address why the White House ringmaster now finds himself an object of ridicule even among members of his own party — a situation for which he is only partly to blame.
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At one point, Tatiana Tchalabaeva, who hangs upside down on a horse for a living, teased Johnathan Lee Iverson, the ringmaster, for talking too much, and then threatened to outtalk him just to show him up.
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For the "Asylum" season, she wore a nun's habit and carried a switch; on "Freak Show," she sang "Life on Mars" as a Weimar German ringmaster/amputee, blue glitter smeared from her lashes to her brows.
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The London dealer Adrian Sassoon will be the ringmaster for a large presentation: 300 contemporary works across a variety of media, including ceramics, as well as about 100 pieces of French porcelain from the 18th century.
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He wore a cocked top hat, and with salt-and-pepper hair past his shoulders and a beard that reached his chest, created an inscrutable image that was equal parts shaman, tent revival preacher and cosmic ringmaster.
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The evening after Mr. Serebrennikov's recent message arrived, Mr. Kulagin presided over an orchestra rehearsal in the opera house's auditorium with the zeal of a ringmaster, leaping onstage to correct a singer's gesture and help move props.
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Above it all, literally, stands the ringmaster — Johnathan Lee Iverson, the 214-foot, 210-inch man who became the first African-American and the youngest person in Ringling history to don the bedazzled top hat and tails.
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Below, the Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen ringmaster and Anderson Cooper 360° anchor discuss the secret to their friendship, what fans can expect from their New Year's Eve show, and who they'll be kissing at midnight.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The old ringmaster has gone, pushed aside by Formula One's new American owners, and the marketing men have moved in with a mission to overhaul the circus and give spectators something more modern for their money.
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Riding around New Hampshire in a bus dubbed the "Straight Talk Express," McCain became the ringmaster of a compelling political circus -- holding court for hours on end with reporters and aides about whatever topic anyone could think of.
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He tells this story that the history of clowning is this: There's a bit where the ringmaster says, "We are going to have someone walk a tightrope," and they set up a tightrope—but the tightrope-walker isn't there.
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In "Circus 1903," the latest extravaganza from the producers of "The Illusionists," there are a wily ringmaster, a dashing juggler, a glamorous contortionist and a pair of Italian acrobats who fling each other around like so many hacky sacks.
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"This is Naomi Kutin, the strongest teenager in the world in both the squat and the dead lift," said the announcer, Geno Biancheri, the charismatic tournament M.C. known as the Pirate of Powerlifting for his heavy metal ringmaster style.
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In a new trailer released on Wednesday, we get a glimpse into the characters around the famed elephant, like Danny DeVito, who as the circus ringmaster reprises that snappy demeanour which we've loved from Matilda and It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
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Yet Anatomy Theater never quite reaches an emotional peak, or consistent tone, ranging from necrophiliac humor (given a mad frenzy by Marc Kudisch as the anatomical theater ringmaster Joshua Crouch) to Southwell's yearning aria of resurrection for her lost heart.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, the ringmaster of the Conservative Brexiteers, has warned Mrs May not to follow in the footsteps of Robert Peel, who split the Tory party for a generation in the 19th century by repealing the protectionist Corn Laws.
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Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times: In a more honest or at least more interesting version of The Greatest Showman, P.T. Barnum, famed American ringmaster and skilled exploiter of misfits and outcasts, would have been the villain rather than the hero.
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"This guy likes juggling so much that he agreed to stay here for seven more years," jokes ringmaster Viaceslavas Mickevicius, a 32-year-old performer who set up the circus program at Lukiskes jail, in the heart of the capital Vilnius.
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Which is why now seems the perfect moment for Spy's however brief return, its venom aimed squarely on the Strangest Show on Earth and its ringmaster, the Queens-born real estate boss whose sweaty, gold-plated ambitions it so ably outed.
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Then comes a blow-your-hair-back opening that sets up the tale: Tatiana, an evil galactic queen, has kidnapped the circus stars and hidden them on fictional planets, requiring the ringmaster and others to race against time to find them.
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Hayes was presented by prosecutors as a formidable and unscrupulous ringmaster in a global conspiracy with staff from at least 10 banks and brokers to fix yen Libor - rates designed to reflect the cost of bank-to-bank borrowing - for profit.
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Silence is golden, however, when it is your own contract that is up and the price of remaining the ringmaster of one of the league's most-watched circuses might be more than the Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert is willing to pay.
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But the latest entry in the field is perhaps the most detailed yet: Amir Bar-Lev's "Long Strange Trip," an elegy for what that director calls the "most American of all rock bands," the Grateful Dead, and its ringmaster, Jerry Garcia.
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LONDON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Bernie Ecclestone used to joke that retirement would come on the day of his funeral but in the end it was an American businessman in a suit who quietly ushered Formula One's 86-year-old ringmaster towards the exit.
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Throughout all his hosting gigs — from Idol to taking over Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve to Live With Ryan and Kelly — Seacrest has perfected the art of being a ringmaster who can rise above the circus with a twinkling, sexless wink.
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ON JANUARY 20th those who see themselves as the global elite will gather in the Alpine resort town of Davos to contemplate the "fourth industrial revolution", the theme chosen by Klaus Schwab, the ringmaster of the circus known as the World Economic Forum.
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The first bout, with "Black Panther's" Ryan Coogler as ringmaster, was as much a remake of the Rocky films as a long-deferred sequel to them, from the training sequences to the melodrama to the stirring fanfare borrowed from Bill Conti's score.
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Another audience member's heart was racing in fear that the guys with rainbow Afro wigs and white shirts and plaid ties who were charging up and down the aisles would pick him for something, as the ringmaster had picked the cargo-pants guy.
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And only a few months later, Jun Takahashi used ruffs and candy colors and ringmaster suiting as the uniform signifiers of a new kind of insurrection in his Undercover show at the Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione (a favorite site, not coincidentally, of Mr. McQueen).
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Alice Cooper—no, not your mom's friend Alice Cooper, the heavy-metal circus ringmaster guy with all the eye makeup—drank too much in the 22006s and forgot he recorded three of his albums and that he toured in support of them.
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The new trailer for Tim Burton's "Dumbo" is rousing and luxurious and all the other things one can expect from a Disney live-action remake, but most importantly it stars Danny DeVito as the ringmaster, which feels like a role he was born to play.
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CreditCreditSasha Maslov for The New York Times Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, plans to step down from the magazine in December after a 25-year tenure, leaving the role that established him as a ringmaster of the Hollywood, Washington and Manhattan power elite.
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These informal sessions, in crowded spaces and often over the din of helicopter noise, represent a free-for-all that "the president can use to give an impression of an out-of-control press that he must tame in his role of ringmaster," Kumar said.
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You can hear the ringmaster at work, barking out from his piano, then jumping around the stage, directing each instrument like a whip crack as they emerge from a psychedelic mist into a stomping blues rock rhythm before erupting into a glorious gospel-like chorus.
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In Chicago, on the day he demonstrated the world's first controlled nuclear chain reaction—a prerequisite for the uncontrolled kind in a nuclear weapon—he ran the show like a circus ringmaster, ramping up the tension by calling for lunch just as things literally heated up.
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Following the shivaree, set to the ringmaster Storm Marrero's version of "Empire State of Mind," the band played a heavy-metal number and two identical-looking platinum blondes in sparkling nude-illusion leotards (the costumes are by Emilio Sosa) writhed above the ring in a tangle of aerial straps.
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But the night infused the Republican convention with the febrile tone and spirit of a Trump rally: heated emotion, gasoline for the fires of suspicion and insecurity, and rhetoric that elbowed the norms of campaign discourse — all building to a hagiographic image of the show's star and ringmaster.
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He has spent 73 years and five months as ringmaster with Ringling; the circus is where he married, welcomed a son and daughter (who are now in the show), saw the world unfurl through the window of a train (his home) and adopted an extended family of international circus performers.
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Launching on A&E's new FYI network in just two weeks, Kocktails with Khloé will see the youngest Kardashian sister entering the realm of late-night TV. The Hollywood Reporter bills the weekly program as a dinner party of sorts, one fueled by drinking games and unfiltered conversations, with Kardashian as ringmaster.
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The circus of 2017 was a murky collection of hashtag jokes tethered to dopey musical numbers with zero melody and an undercooked space opera subplot, where the ringmaster rides a hunk of fiberglass through a light show in an attempt to rescue the performers, who have been kidnapped by a space witch.
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Never mind that their periods of sustained popularity have always coincided with a heavy dose of risk-taking and flinging the doors open to the non-traditional: Steve Austin was stuck as the godawful Ringmaster until he was given license to do his own thing, and The Rock as Rocky Maivia was a disaster.
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This time around the aesthetic is vaguely circuslike, with Ms. Rossellini in a cleverly deconstructed ringmaster costume (designed by Fanny Karst), a parade of her old toys (including a monkey in a red tartan kilt) lining the stage, and occasional appearances by the aforementioned dog, Pan — short for Peter Pan and confidently played by a female rescue named Darcy.
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Instead, director Tim Burton and screenwriter Ehren Kruger (Ghost in the Shell, Transformers 2, 3, and 4) appear to have jettisoned the talking animals in favor of a human story, with Colin Farrell as Dumbo's caretaker, and Batman Returns stars Michael Keaton and Danny DeVito, playing respectively a wealthy showrunner named V.A. Vandevere and a circus ringmaster named Max Medici.
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It begins in the 18th century, with Shakespeare forgers and travel liars; makes its way through the 19th, with P. T. Barnum as a kind of ringmaster/hoaxmaster (among whose incredible acts was Joice Heth, a black woman whom he purported had been George Washington's nursemaid — which would have made her, in Barnum's time, 161 years old); and wends through the false memoirs and fake personae of the 20th and 21st.
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"Instead of wasting hundreds of billions of dollars trying to administer an enormously complicated system of hundreds of separate insurance plans, there would be one insurance plan for the American people with one single payer," said Mr. Sanders, the ringmaster of an event that felt like a political rally, with banners and placards, consumers and patients, labor union members, nurses in red T-shirts and an audience full of fans who applauded, whooped and hollered.
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The episode, titled "Tears of a Clown," also featured one cast member somersaulting in a sequined dress center stage at the Big Apple Circus, followed by another cast member, dressed as a baby doll with an oversize, sparkly bow on her head, crying to her mother about feeling let down as the honorary circus ringmaster — and still, all fans wanted to talk about afterward was that awkward scene promoting the new Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson movie.
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While House Intelligence Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffNunes's facial expression right before lawmakers took break from Sondland testimony goes viral Sondland brings impeachment inquiry to White House doorstep Maloney wins House Oversight gavel MORE (D-Calif.) plays ringmaster to a partisan and redundant inquiry, interviewing the same characters over and over hoping that something damning will emerge, underwhelming Democratic candidates are floating around Iowa and New Hampshire, seeking media attention but getting edged out by breathless coverage of the impeachment drama.
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