Rumour has it that even when he's hiking or canoeing with friends, at nightfall the slightest event is transformed into a performance, with flaming torches and shadow play.
"Double Third Portrait," made in collaboration with the artist Carter, is an amazingly pretentious pastiche of performance art, experimental film and appropriated voice-overs and flaming arrows.
A mouse-size version, in conjunction with a flaming hoop about the circumference of a beer keg, provides the rousing finish to a performance that, happily, takes place in both acts of the Big Apple Circus and impels the audience to unreserved applause.
We had this appetizer called flaming saganaki — basically, flaming cheese.
One couple twirled flaming torches.
The flaming nipple scene will open the new footage on the DVD, giving audiences more of Hopper in what is possibly his scariest performance – in a career of scary performances.
Using a scale model of the set, she talks me though the performance, from 25 minutes of pre-show atmospherics involving helicopter effects, smoke and swooping Bat-Signal, to the Joker's final exit in a flaming hot-air balloon.
As the finale to her street performance there, Ms. Benner would select two men from the audience, climb up and stand on their folded arms, then juggle flaming torches above their heads.
"Guys are flaming out academically.
