Lollapalooza's carnival atmosphere was the perfect environment for the
freak-show antics of the Jim Rose Circus, but with the diminishing
profiles of Rose's most ardent patrons -- Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails --
the Circus has been somewhat adrift, and Jackass's Johnny Knoxville has
seized the spirit of the uncouth cultural moment. Now, though, Rose's coterie
of sideshow freaks, transvestite wrestlers, and self-mutilators may have found
its natural home: reality television. |