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4. Food for Thought

A psychic clown and part-time cook who abuses his assistant and wife learns that she is having an affair with a fire eater and plans to runs off with him.

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The Great Zambini ( Ernie Hudson ), an abusive and mentally unstable circus performer with psychic abilities and a passion for cooking, attempts to read the mind of his wife and assistant, Connie ( Joan Chen ), as she can already read his. When he is finally able to read Connie's mind, he does so just as she is in the middle of an affair with the show's fire-eater, Johnny ( John Laughlin ), causing Zambini to go insane with jealousy. Also starring Phil Fondacaro.

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