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It seems pretty safe to say that  Kathy Bates  probably never expected to play a bearded lady, let alone one with a broad Canadian accent. Or that  Sarah Paulson  aspired to play a woman with two heads – the one on the right puritanically grim and skeptical, the one on the left a bit dippy and worshipful of movie stars.  But anything goes on  American Horror Story , starting its fourth season,  Freak Show .  Everything  goes.  This new incarnation of the series stars  Jessica Lange , the anchor of every season so far, as Elsa Mars, a failed German actress who runs a barely surviving traveling sideshow in the early 1950s.  She and her entourage of human curiosities, including a young man with lobster-claw hands and a  woman no taller than a shoe box , have pitched their few tents outside Jupiter, Florida.  Drumming up business is a challenge. The local authorities aren't encouraging, and the townspeople are inclined to stay indoors at night: Just as Elsa's show h