{"id":34532,"date":"2011-03-02T08:50:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T13:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=34532"},"modified":"2014-04-26T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T18:04:52","slug":"laugh-clown-laugh-1928","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=34532","title":{"rendered":"Laugh, Clown, Laugh<\/i> (1928)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starring Lon Chaney as Tito the clown and Loretta Young as Simonetta, the young orphan-girl Tito rescued when she was a baby, who now is a tightrope-walker in his act. <\/p>\n

Chaney’s heartbreaking performance has always reminded me of my friend Brett, with that same drive to please and entertain (Brett was, hands down, the funniest person I have ever met<\/i>), and with the underbelly of gentleness, heartbreak, kindness. I slept horribly last night, so I finally just got up, made coffee, and popped in the movie at around 4:30 a.m. Then I found myself taking screengrabs. Obsessively. It felt strangely good. <\/p>\n

I got lost again in the sweet sad story. Wishing I could talk to my friend again. I can almost picture the angels in heaven rolling around holding their stomachs and gasping for mercy because Brett is making them laugh so hard they are nearly on the edge of asphyxiation. All of us who knew Brett have a memory of laughing so hard that we actually became frightened<\/i> that we would DIE. <\/p>\n

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Starring Lon Chaney as Tito the clown and Loretta Young as Simonetta, the young orphan-girl Tito rescued when she was a baby, who now is a tightrope-walker in his act. Chaney’s heartbreaking performance has always reminded me of my friend … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34532"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81338,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34532\/revisions\/81338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}