bee bee beep beep, bip, b'b'b'b', beeeeeeee..
I begin by giving the seafood a thorough cold-water rinse, like so, and then — beep be…e…e…p, bip — What was that?
If you're lucky you'll hear a bip on the horn before they cut across your path.
Examples of Marceau's Bip performances include Bip Travels by Train, Bip Commits Suicide and Bip Hunts Butterflies.
Dressed in a white sailor suit, a top hat - a red rose perched on top - Bip chased butterflies and flirted at cocktail parties.
Bip had tried many times to put an end to himself.
"Bip", said Mr Marceau, "is a hero of our time.
The sea flooded in, bringing a ship that could take Bip on his constant travels to America, to Japan and to Australia, and he staggered manfully up and down the pitching deck.He was born, some said, in the Paris acting school in 1947, bred by Jean-Louis Barrault in "Les Enfants du Paradis" and raised at the tiny Théâtre de Poche in Montparnasse.
He was, said the man who knew him best, a romantic, a Don Quixote tilting at windmills, and "alone in a fragile world filled with injustice and beauty .To the naked eye Bip had only the clothes he stood up in: trousers, jacket, soft ballet shoes, striped jersey, and a crumpled opera-hat topped with a red flower.
His name, Bip, came loosely from Dickens's "Great Expectations".
He wrote a poem for him:A silent, fragile hand has drawn in space a white flower emptied of its blood.Soon it will open, blossom out.Soon, though faded, bloom again.Mr Marceau was garrulous and gregarious where Bip was not.
