Word: puppeteered
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...fantastic period costumes that happened to be missing the top half, like Merchant-Ivory meets Stringfellows. There were pirates, clowns, cancan dancers, a woman swimming with giant eels, Egyptians, genies, Shetland ponies and, for reasons that must have to do with this being France, a 15-minute hand-shadow puppet show. I was insulted that the producers thought that the only way to keep a man's interest is to show women's breasts, but far more worried that women were paying attention...
...fantastic period costumes that happened to be missing the top half, like Merchant-Ivory meets Stringfellows. There were pirates, clowns, cancan dancers, a woman swimming with giant eels, Egyptians, genies, Shetland ponies and, for reasons that must have to do with this being France, a 15-minute hand-shadow puppet show. I was insulted that the producers thought that the only way to keep a man's interest is to show women's breasts, but far more worried that women were paying attention...
Behind LiLi's free will, in fact, is an actress speaking into a mike while strapped into a motion-capture device (when she waves hello, so does LiLi), an animator punching keys for more subtle movements and about $50,000 of software. She's a high-tech, multilingual, digital puppet, Howdy Doody with sex appeal. But LiLi wants to be real. "I'm striving to be more and more human with each passing day," she says with an earnestness that would make Geppetto proud...
...nature of Japanese politics that all is not as it seems. The guy you think is running international trade, for instance, may be a puppet for some bureaucrat deep in his administration. The Prime Minister who seems energetic and bright may be just a prop for the conservatives in his party. The latest Japanese government has its share of opacity too. It arrived in office four weeks ago to the highest hopes of any government in the past decade. Koizumi is a charismatic reformer who speaks his mind and has a plastic, Clintonian charm. His arrival represented a victory over...
...When in issue two, Harry inexplicably shows up in Guatemala, Chaykin folds political intrigue into the story. Apparently the U.S. makes a show of supporting the current dictator, while secretly preparing to put a hand-picked puppet in his place. Simultaneously the communists (secretly in cahoots with the dictator's amazonian wife) plan their own insurgency. Meanwhile, Harry has become a pilot smuggling arms to the communists, not for political reasons, but just for the thrill. Throw in some homosexual ex-pats, a whore named Carlita, a transvestite named Pinky, Russian secret agents and a sleazy representative...