Juggling in Movies
Shakes the Clown (1991)
[Bob Goldthwait, Julie Brown, Bruce Baum, Robin Williams]
Shakes plods about his duties as a party clown, and uses all of his free time getting seriously drunk. Binky, another clown, wins the spot on a local kiddie show, which depresses Shakes even more, and his boss threatens him with unemployment if he can't get his act under control. When someone murders Shakes' boss and makes it look like Shakes did it, he goes undercover, posing as a hated mime, and tries to find information that will clear his name.
At 0:10:15, Bob Mendelsohn is seen in 3 shots over the next 45 seconds
juggling 3 clubs as the juggling stand-in for Bobcat Goldthwait. He does
the club on club balance, which showed the name "SHAKES" spelled out on
the clubs with macaroni letters. This was an important part of the murder
plot, as macaroni dents were left on the dead victim's head spelling
"SHAKES" backwards and causing "SHAKES" to be spelled out in blood on
the sheet covering the stiff.
At 1:22:07, 2 clowns in the background pass 5 clubs, and soon drop one.
Bryan Sapphire did unicycling.
The entire movie may be seen here.
