Although Randall primarily stars as the Chinese circus owner Dr. Lao, he also appears as Medusa, The Abominable Snowman, a horned goat man, a blind fortune teller and — in one, don’t-blink scene — a stupefied circusgoer. Lao rolls into a Western town on the verge of collapse, thanks to a drought. His mysterious and […]
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
Posted inArts & Culture
Vampire Circus
I attribute this to the first time my parents took me the supposedly greatest show on Earth, and right before my toddler eyes, a trapeze artist experienced an “oops” moment and fell to his death. Even if that hadn’t happened, there’s always the clowns. So I’m down with the sinister vibe of “Vampire Circus,” a […]