Targetgirlisa term sometimesused in circusandvaudeville to denote a femaleassistantin "impalement" acts such as knife throwing, archeryorsharpshooting.
The evening show, inspired by the dark and twisted fairytales of the brothers Grimm, is a 45-minute, adrenaline-raising performance with a lot of knifethrowing, motorcycle stunts and daredevil high-wire feats to keep you on the edge of your seat.
He played the publicity game with aplomb, convincing interviewers that he had been in rather more fistfights than he had, and that his hobby was knife-throwing. (It was painting.) He bought a horse farm in Vermont and a mansion in Bel-Air.