Word: ventriloquist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whom he is singing his siren song now. "We should aim our strategy primarily at disaffected Democrats, at blue-collar workers, and at working-class ethnics," Buchanan told Nixon, according to Nixon's 1978 memoir. As a speechwriter, Buchanan used Vice President Spiro Agnew as a kind of ventriloquist's dummy for his white-hot resentments of the political and media establishment. "We would never trust such powers over public opinion in the hands of an elected government--it is time we questioned it in the hands of a small and unelected elite...
...good bet that this Carrey -- the ventriloquist who wonders poignantly if he has lost his own voice -- is a bit of a gag too. The Canadian comic, 32, has been having too good a time lately to search for the Inner Jim. And so has anyone who has seen Carrey inhabit dozens of roles on Fox's prime-time skitcom In Living Color or commandeer the big screen in last winter's smash Ace Ventura Pet Detective. That rowdy farce, cagily directed by Tom Shadyac, earned $72 million at the domestic box office. Coupled with big expectations for Carrey...
...struggle of the stories, whose is the authentic American voice? Murphy Brown (played by the daughter of the long-ago-famous puppeteer- ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, and manipulated by activist fortysomething Hillary Democrats) represents a certain constituency. Dan Quayle, having no television surrogate to manipulate, has passed through the looking glass, playing himself, representing another America. He has become a moral symbol and performer himself: statesman and 'toon...
Privilege begins with a lucky roll of the genes. Candice's father was the ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, a dapper vaudevillian in top hat and tux, who with his monocled dummy, Charlie McCarthy, made every radio appearance seem like a Broadway opening night. Her mother is Frances Westerman, a fashion model renowned in her youth as "the Ipana Girl." Edgar and Frances made quite a pair: handsome, smart, moneyed, decent. And they made quite a daughter, one at ease with her favors, slow to complain about being too lovely or too little loved. If aloof Edgar at times seemed closer...
BROKEN BADGES (CBS, debuting Nov. 24, 8 p.m. EST). Stephen Cannell, creator of The A-Team, concocted this series about a crime-fighting team of cops with emotional problems, among them a kleptomaniac and an excitable ventriloquist. And they still manage to get in car chases...