Look Who's Afraid of Clowns
MC
A fear of clowns is no laughing matter, especially to Johnny Depp and
Sean "P. Diddy" Combs.
"Something about the painted face, the fake smile," Depp told reporters
while promoting Sleepy Hollow. "There always seemed to be a darkness
lurking just under the surface, a potential for real evil."
Combs is also said to suffer from clourophobia. But he has repeatedly
denied that his performance contracts call for a "no clown" clause,
perhaps because it doesn't fit his bad-boy image.
Several years ago, Depp purchased a painting by John Wayne Gacy, the
children's clown turned serial killer who tortured and killed 33 boys and
young men.
The painting was a self-portrait of Gacy as "Pogo the Clown."
"They told me when I got it that the proceeds went to a charity or to the
victims' families or something, but I found out that wasn't the case,"
Depp told the San Francisco Examiner.
Depp still finds clowns vexing. "Something must have happened when I was
a kid," he recently told Entertainment Weekly.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Entertainment/WolfFiles/Wolf_Files-1.html
Brevity
wrote:
>Clourophobia
I thought a fear of clowns was called Clarabellophobia.
Of course the reference might be lost on those who are too young, or
too Canadian.
"What time is it, kids?"
- Flubadub
Gene Harris
Brevity
Yeah. Mr. Bluster old.
Honk. Honk.
-Bob
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