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DIED. SHARI LEWIS, 65, puppeteer who animated both her inquisitive sidekick Lamb Chop and the quest for quality children's programming; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Lewis and Lamb Chop, a woolly sock with exaggerated eyelashes, first appeared on morning television in 1957 on The Captain Kangaroo Show. Lewis' talent for ventriloquism and aptitude for engaging children without condescension led to four different series of her own. A talented musician, conductor and dancer, Lewis wrote 60 children's books and won 12 Emmys during her 40-year career...
...simplest pleasures are often the ones that beguile a child, and who was more beguiling than Shari Lewis, a woman with a demure sock named Lamb 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...
...There's an unnecessary coarsening of children's shows that feature characters that constantly pass wind, with mean-spirited, hostile relationships," Lewis once said. "I don't think that's what our children should be exposed to." As long Shari Lewis had a sock, there was an alternative...
Looking at what goes on in the ring, it's hard to see why all this is happening, since wrestling doesn't seem very different from what it always was: men with very large muscles pretend to sock each other while stamping a foot on the canvas to make a loud noise. But wrestling has changed. No one claims anymore that the bouts are legitimate; indeed, to reassure families that they will not see real violence, the promoters now emphasize that wrestling is staged. Then there is the change in the characters and story lines developed for wrestlers...
...need a good checking account, bigger banks are definitely not better. That's the conclusion of a new Bank Rate Monitor study, which found that small, local banks offer the best deals in the U.S., while giants like Citibank and NationsBank sock customers with charges up to $200 a year. Small community banks are opening at record rates (200 last year alone), so watch your area for high yields and low minimum balances and fees...