By HASANI GITTENS, AP
Last updated: 1:02 am
July 4, 2008
Posted: 12:50 am
July 4, 2008
Tears for a clown. Bozo is no more.
Larry Harmon, who entertained children for more than a half-century as Bozo the Clown, died at his Los Angeles home yesterday at age 83 from congestive heart failure, his publicist said yesterday.
"Bozo is a combination of the wonderful wisdom of the adult and the child-like ways in all of us," Harmon had said in a 1996 Associated Press interview.
Susan Harmon, his wife of 29 years, said Harmon was the perfect Bozo.
"He was the most optimistic man I ever met. He always saw a bright side; he always had something good to say about everybody . . . He was the love of my life," she said.
He wasn't the original Bozo but had portrayed the clown in countless appearances and licensed the character to others, including dozens of TV stations around the country.
