在Norman Stone看来，鲍里斯•叶利钦不过是个“邪恶的小丑”，书中他用了不足一页就把叶利钦概括过去了。
Boris Yeltsin is dismissed in barely a page as a “sinister clown”.
迈克尔·凯恩先生建议希斯·莱杰克服困难并且超越杰克·尼克尔森在《蝙蝠侠》(1989)中饰演的小丑：“杰克就像是一个小丑似的人物，他和蔼可亲而又邪恶危险，他也许是一个杀手老头。”
It's Sir Michael Caine's opinion that Heath Ledger beat the odds and topped Jack Nicholson's Joker from Batman (1989) : "Jack was like a clown figure, benign but wicked, maybe a killer old uncle."
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