Word: puppeteered
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...hard to tell, though, how the scene will really come off, since today Casella is working without the puppet he uses to portray Timon: days and nights of (literally) being attached to it have hurt his back. Taymor isn't the kind of director merely to sew up an actor in an animal costume. In the show, Casella stands behind the 5-ft.-tall Timon model, which he manipulates with rods and wires. Others in the cast wear elaborate headpieces representing the animals they are portraying. Indeed, Taymor's entire production is highly stylized and impressionistic. A rushing waterfall...
...actors are feeling some wear and tear too. Though the puppets and masks have been made as lightweight as possible, a physical therapist has been kept busy treating sore backs and muscles. Then there's the challenge of learning to act while playing second fiddle to Taymor's models. Says Casella, who once played Doogie Howser's best friend on TV and didn't know the show involved puppets when he went to audition: "The first thing Julie told us was, 'Don't upstage the puppet.' As an actor, that's the last thing you want to hear." Taymor...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Is there Nazi gold in the Vatican basement? A recently declassified 50-year-old Treasury Department memo says the Vatican held onto 200 million Swiss francs passed it by a Nazi puppet government. Quoting a "reliable source in Italy," Treasury agent Emerson Bigelow wrote his superior in 1946 that after the fall of Nazi Germany, members of the Nazi puppet Ustasha government of Croatia sent 350 million confiscated Swiss francs to the Vatican "for safekeeping." En route, some 150 million were apparently seized by British authorities at the Austrian-Swiss border. The balance was held in the Vatican...
Amid the barrage of domestic and international criticism, Tung was condemned as a puppet--or else as a high-handed authoritarian--ready to roll back democratic reforms at Beijing's command. "This is the first real test of what the 'one country, two systems' slogan means," says Michael DeGolyer, chairman of the poll-taking Hong Kong Transition Project. "People want to know whether Tung is Beijing's representative in Hong Kong or Hong Kong's representative in Beijing...
Children who take tours of the landmark walk upon the building's original 19th-century floor planks and enjoy puppet shows with three-feet puppets portraying escaped slaves Harriet Tubman and Lewis Hayden, all recreating the Underground Railroad...