text: The picture reportedly ended with a shot of black smoke coming out of the stack--but we 'll never know because The Day the Clown Cried was judged too obscene to be released , and Lewis went back to parading doomed kids across the TV screen in telethons , while Americans goggled at his stamina , and senators nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize .
  
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  The Day the Clown Cried was not obscene at all .