Pickle Family Circus

The Pickle Family Circus was a small circus founded in 1974 in San Francisco, California, USA. The circus formed an important part of the renewal of the American circus. They also influenced the creation of Cirque du Soleil in Montreal. Neither circus features animals or use the three-ring layout like the traditional circus.

After working with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the Pickle Family Jugglers (founded by Peggy Snider, Larry Pisoni, and Cecil MacKinnon) decided to create the Pickle Family Circus. Their first show was in May 1975, in the gymnasium of John O'Connell School in San Francisco. After they received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1976, they went on their first tour, going to five cities in Northern California. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Circus performed on weekends in the San Francisco Bay area during Spring and Fall, and toured for 3 months in the summer, mostly in towns along Highway 101 in Northern California and Oregon. In these years, the Pickles operated with a business model that every show was a benefit, usually for a local community organization. The local sponsor sold advance tickets (getting a portion of the revenue), did publicity and site preparation, and ran a midway. The Circus returned to the same towns year after year, and these events became an important source of funding for the sponsors. This freed the company from much of the advance work. In 1979, the Pickles extended their tour to perform at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer, Alaska, and in 1981 performed a two-month winter run at the Roundhouse Theater in London.

The Family Circus

The Family Circus (originally The Family Circle) is a syndicated comic strip created by cartoonist Bil Keane and currently written, inked, and colored by his son, Jeff Keane. The strip generally uses a single captioned panel with a round border, hence the original name of the series, which was changed following objections from the magazine Family Circle. The series debuted on February 29, 1960, and has been in continuous production ever since. According to publisher King Features Syndicate, it is the most widely syndicated cartoon panel in the world, appearing in 1,500 newspapers. Compilations of Family Circus comic strips have sold over 13 million copies worldwide.

Characters

Family

The central characters of Family Circus are a family whose surname is rarely mentioned (although the cartoon of August 26, 2013, in which Billy refers to "Grandma Keane" and "Grandma Carne" indicates the same surnames as the author's family). The parents, Bil and Thelma (Thel), are modeled after the author and his wife, Thelma Carne Keane. Their four children, Billy, Dolly, Jeffy, and P.J., are fictionalized composites of the Keanes' five children. With the exception of P.J., no characters have aged appreciably during the run of the strip.

Family Circus (film)

Family Circus is a 2001 Telugu Comedy film produced by Sunkara Madhu Murali on Melody Multimedia banner, directed by Teja. Starring Jagapati Babu, Rajendra Prasad, Roja, Kanchi Kaul in the lead roles and music composed by R. P. Patnaik. The film recorded as Average at box office.

Plot

Subramanyam/Subbu (Jagapathi Babu) is a simpleton who works as a manager in a firm, marries a no-nonsense lady Durga (Roja). They decide to adopt Subbu's dead sister's two sons and brings them home after that Durga gives birth to twins. The children are imps who make his life miserable with their mischief. Things worsen for Subbu because he has vacated too many houses due to naughty children. So, Subbu decides buy a house in a locality full of bizarre characters that include a retired army officer Lansnayak Bhagat (Kota Srinivasa Rao), a loud-mouthed neighbor Shantharam (Dharmavarapu Subramanyam) and some demented feminists.

But the worst is yet to come. When they plan to rent a portion of their house, to a person called Pataudi (Rajendra Prasad), who seems only too happy to offer double the rent, agrees to the deal. Subbu realizes his mistake when he sees Pataudi's family, which is the most dysfunctional that one can ever imagine, lands up in his house. Pataudi's children are two more strong imps, his wife Kantham (Jhansi) is a hardcore virago who brings the sky down when somebody scolds her children. To top it all, Pataudi's sister-in-law Sujatha (Kanchi Kaul) a teenage girl, falls in love with Subbu and stalks him day and night. On the other hand, Sujatha's lover Babloo (Babloo) with his friends gang threatens Subbu to leave Sujatha. All this things make a lot of confusion & misunderstandings, remaining story is how Subbu resolve of all this problems.