Word: puppeteer
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...ruthless of the so-called New Russians in the art of turning money into power. Unlike the men officially running the government, he always knows what he wants and has the brashness, tenacity and clout to get it. For him. Yeltsin's weakness offered a chance to strengthen the puppet strings...
...Brits, who have had mixed success selling TV to the U.S., have a new secret weapon: NODDY. A small wooden puppet whose friends have names like Big Ears and BUMPY DOG, he has proved irresistible to generations of British kids, so the BBC has made a U.S. version. Want to talk production values? The American show adds cute-beyond-belief child actors, big musical numbers and, of course, star power. CAROL KANE does a turn as the Tooth Fairy. How much does she pay? "Teeth are very expensive," she says. "I don't think you can leave less than...
...food and water so that it's as if you could actually feed the tiny people. 'Hello, tiny people! It is time for supper! Feast! Feast!'" But while she wanders to that punch line, she takes some rest stops to chat with her hand, as if it were a puppet. "You'll notice it," she says, "because I very cleverly turn to the side." The hand says, "Shut up! Tell your joke...
...Chop (and two other socks named Charlie Horse and Hush Puppy)? Now, that was high-concept. Shari Lewis, who died Sunday of cancer in Los Angeles, was loved by kids from the moment she and her knitted friends first appeared on "Captain Kangaroo" in the '50s until 1963, when puppet-based children's programming gave way to the comic psychedelics of cartoons. Those same kids loved her when she came back in 1992, this time to PBS, and they plopped their own children down to watch...
...Puppets have been around for thousands of years, but the proto-Muppets that began to appear on Sam and Friends were different. Kermit was there, looking and sounding much as he would later (until his death Henson always animated Kermit and provided his voice). Typical hand puppets have solid heads, but Kermit's face was soft and mobile, and he could move his mouth in synchronization with his speech; he could also gesticulate more facilely than a marionette, with rods moving his arms. For television, Henson realized, it was necessary to invent puppets that had "life and sensitivity." (Henson sometimes...