"until September 26, 1953. She moved to WPIX in 1953 to replace Ted Steele as host of ""Kartoon Klub"", which featured a variety format with a live studio audience. Lewis performed with Randy Rocket and Taffy Twinkle, and the program also featured reruns of ""Crusader Rabbit"" cartoons. ""Kartoon Klub"" later changed its title to ""Shari & Her Friends"" on September 23, 1956, and then to ""Shariland"" a month later. Lewis won New York-area Emmy Awards for her work on ""Shariland"" and a succeeding series on WRCA-TV, ""Hi Mom"" (1957–1959), which introduced Charlie Horse, Hush Puppy, and Wing Ding. Lamb Chop,"
"with double ikat, such that the resist dyed warp and weft threads created a variation of colour intensity, and the weft-based pattern created a higher contrast than traditional ikat weavings. As a weaver, Stein's professional circle included textile artists such as Lenore Tawney and Mary Walker Phillips. Even into her 90's, Stein wove everyday in her studio. Ethel Stein created puppets out of old socks, initially for her son's nursery school, before starting a business of it. She sold the puppets through a Manhattan department store. In 1953, one puppet went to television puppeteer, Shari Lewis, and became known as"
"Pennsylvania picked Brooks' Psychic Theater as one of the 10 most haunted places in Pennsylvania, placing it at number 9. His schedule includes traveling for outside events. Dick Brooks (magician) Dick Brooks is considered a magician of renown by Focus Magazine. As a teenager he joined a Department of Parks magic club headed up by the official magician of New York City, Abe Hurwitz (Peter Pan the Magic Man), who was also the father of the soon to be famous Shari Lewis with her puppet ""Lamb Chop (puppet)"". When Hurwitz left the Peter Pan Magic Club, the members wanted a"
"Puppeteer Shari Lewis and her puppet Lamb Chop appeared in Cracker Jack commercials in 1961. A new television ad for Cracker Jack ran during Super Bowl XXXIII on January 31, 1999. It was the first advertising for the Cracker Jack brand on television in 15 years. Cracker Jack originally included a small ""mystery"" novelty item referred to as a ""Toy Surprise"" in each box. The tagline for Cracker Jack was originally ""Candy-coated popcorn, peanuts and a prize"", but has since become ""Caramel-coated popcorn & peanuts"" under Frito-Lay. Prizes were included in every box of Cracker Jack beginning in 1912. One"
"Lamb Chop. Stein created several puppets for Shari Lewis. Ethel Stein died of complications from pneumonia on Friday, March 9, 2018 in Cortlandt, New York at the age of 100. Jack Lenor Larsen, a textile designer and author said of Stein, “Ethel Stein did not shun an audience; rather, she sidestepped the pervasive marketing focus of others."" Daniel Walker, of the Art Institute of Chicago, called her a ""weaver's weaver"". Ethel Stein exhibited in group shows at major institutions in the United States including Cooper Hewitt, the American Craft Museum in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,"
"Naomi married Marshall and they had two sons, James and Alexander (""Sandy""). During World War II, Marshall was ""island hopping"" in the Pacific to entertain military personnel in USO shows. He became tired of taking his elaborate ventriloquist's dummy called Henry with him, so he decided to use a white glove and some bunny ears to turn his left hand into his dummy, ""Lefty"". Marshall often described the transition from his use of a traditional vent dummy to the development of his glove puppet rabbit commenting that the ""dummy wouldn't carry the suitcase."" Originally made from a khaki army glove,"
"puppet's name. He would later be joined by other puppet glove characters, including Sweep (a dog who communicates by a saxophone reed type squeak), Soo (a shy and sweetly spoken panda), Kipper (a cat), Butch (another dog who occasionally plays the part of a villain), Ramsbottom (a snake), 'Enry the Robot, Cousin Scampi (another bear, who is Sooty's cousin), Miki (another cat - this time Brazilian) and Maggie Mouse. Like Sooty, Scampi appears to talk only in a very light whisper which can be heard only when someone puts their ear close to his mouth. Matthew Corbett, the son of"
"by the generally fabulous Sandra Bernhard falls flat. Things go better for Lamb Chop, the saccharine little sock puppet whose creator, Shari Lewis, died earlier this month. Lamb Chop has a cameo as an audience member in the opening concert scene and steals the show."" Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly wrote: ""Opening so soon after ""Mafia!"" tried our patience for the whole ""Airplane!"" and ""Naked Gun"" parody thing, ""Wrongfully Accused"" has a lot going against it. It's sloppy, tired, obvious, and overdone. ... But strewn throughout this shameless, old-fart comedy circus are so many giddy, good-natured, much-needed stink bombs aimed"
"puppets, and says his most prized possession is his brush, this being the traditional name for a fox's tail. The original Basil Brush glove puppet was designed by Peter Firmin in 1963 for an ITV television series, and was voiced and performed by Ivan Owen until his death in October 2000. Ivan Owen took great care to ensure that he, personally, never received any publicity. Professionally, only Basil had a public persona, with Owen himself remaining entirely unknown. This helped give the character believability, making Basil appear to be real, since—unlike Harry Corbett and Sooty, for example—the audience never saw"
"Fisher House Foundation, performing arts centers, and at state fairs around the country. In 2002, Lewis helped raise $275,000 for UCLA's Neuro-Oncology Program. as well as being a founder of Jump For The Cause a women's world record skydiving organization that has raised nearly 2mil for Breast Cancer Research. Lewis is also on the board of the Blue Ribbon. Lewis was the co-host of the 2014 AMG Heritage Awards with host Billy Gilman and David L Cook. During the broadcast she accepted the Sandy Hosey Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Artists Music Guild. Prior to her death, Shari Lewis"
"a year and a half prior to shooting, ""everything came together in the last couple weeks."" Henson noted, ""even if you have the characters together, the puppeteers start working with them, they find problems or they try to figure out what they're going to do with these characters."" Although each of the film's key puppets required a small team of puppeteers to operate it, the most complex puppet of the production was Hoggle. Shari Weiser was inside the costume, while Hoggle's face was radio-controlled by Brian Henson and three other operators. Speaking in the ""Inside the Labyrinth"" documentary, Brian Henson"
"of a hollow cylinder shape to cover the finger. Finger puppets are often decorated with eyes and mouths made out of fabric or other materials. This form of puppet has limited application, and is used mainly in pre-schools or kindergartens for storytelling with young children. A hand puppet (or glove puppet) is a puppet controlled by one hand, which occupies the interior of the puppet. The Punch and Judy puppets are familiar examples of hand puppets. Larger varieties of hand puppets place the puppeteer's hand in just the puppet's head, controlling the mouth and head, and the puppet's body then"
"simulated gunshot wound. A similar figure also resides in the private collection of entertainer David Copperfield. The ""Nude Puppet"" figure is an anatomically correct blonde bombshell although she is often clothed while on stage. This figure is used by a French-Canadian performer for corporate events and entertainment purposes. The ""Talking Bar Stool"" is a unique creation consisting of an intricately carved bar-height chair that comes to life via hidden foot controls used by the practitioner to reveal movable eyes and mouth. A pair of taxidermist’s renditions of ventriloquist puppet lion statues were created for a children's theme park in Florida."
"Shakes versus Shav Shakes versus Shav (1949) is a puppet play written by George Bernard Shaw. It was Shaw's last completed dramatic work. The play runs for 10 minutes in performance and comprises a comic argument between Shaw and Shakespeare, with the two playwrights bickering about who is the better writer as a form of intellectual equivalent of Punch and Judy. The play was written by Shaw for the Lanchester Marionettes who were based in their own theatre in Foley House, Malvern, Worcestershire, England. The company's founders, Waldo and Muriel Lanchester, performed regularly in the Malvern Festival. Shaw, having seen"
"Shakes versus Shav Shakes versus Shav (1949) is a puppet play written by George Bernard Shaw. It was Shaw's last completed dramatic work. The play runs for 10 minutes in performance and comprises a comic argument between Shaw and Shakespeare, with the two playwrights bickering about who is the better writer as a form of intellectual equivalent of Punch and Judy. The play was written by Shaw for the Lanchester Marionettes who were based in their own theatre in Foley House, Malvern, Worcestershire, England. The company's founders, Waldo and Muriel Lanchester, performed regularly in the Malvern Festival. Shaw, having seen"
"Juro Novelty Company Juro Novelty Company was a toy company headed by Sam Jupiter, and later by his daughter Vivian Kaplan. The company manufactured first composition, then plastic ventriloquist puppets and dolls from as early as 1949, till 1977, at which time they were acquired by the Goldberger Doll Co. Some of the puppets included Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smiff, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd , Danny O'Day, Little Ricky, Lester, and Velvel. They also made Dick Clark and Pinky Lee dolls in the 1950s. Goldberger continued to offer the Charlie McCarthy and Danny O'Day dolls after their acquisition of Juro, as"
"Archie Andrews (puppet) Archie Andrews was a ventriloquist's dummy used by ventriloquist Peter Brough in radio and television shows in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps the most popular show in its radio format was called ""Educating Archie"". Regularly attracting over 15 million listeners. Archie was invariably dressed in a broad-striped blazer, and addressed the ventriloquist as ""Brough"". The television scripts were written by Marty Feldman and Ronald Chesney. The radio show attracted up to 15 million listeners and had a children's fan club that at one time had 250,000 members. Among future stars who appeared on the"
"Soo (puppet) Soo is a British glove puppet and TV character from the show Sooty and first appeared in 1964 as the girlfriend of Sooty. They still remain boyfriend and girlfriend today. In many episodes they kiss. Soo is a calm and collected female panda who acts as the foil for both Sooty and Sweep, and usually wears a red skirt. The original voice artist and puppeteer for Soo was Harry Corbett's wife, Marjorie Corbett, who voiced Soo until 1980. Brenda Longman took over in 1981 until 2001, when the then new owners of Sooty Hit Entertainment, overhauled the series"
"theatre, he ran a toy shop in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon. Bernard Shaw had shown an interest in marionettes throughout his life. Lanchester showed Shaw two puppets portraying Shakespeare and Shaw, asking Shaw to write a short drama for them. Having seen the performances of the Lanchester marionettes over the years, Shaw agreed to write ""Shakes versus Shav"" for the company in 1949. Lanchester carved the six marionettes (heads were carved by Jack Whitehead) and Muriel costumed them, having sought advice from Scotland on the correct tartans for the puppets representing Rob Roy and Macbeth. The Shaw puppet is now housed"
"quoting Shakespeare's own words and bringing into being a small light to symbolise his own reputation. Shakespeare puts out the light and the play ends. Waldo Lanchester carved the six marionettes (heads were carved by Jack Whitehead) and Muriel costumed them, having sought advice from Scotland on the correct tartans for Macbeth and Rob Roy. The Shaw puppet is now housed in the George Bernard Shaw Museum, Shaw's Corner, at Ayot St Lawrence, the Shakespeare puppet is in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and the other four puppets - Macbeth, Rob Roy, Captain Shotover and Ellie Dunn - are in the"
"Bernard Loomis Bernard Loomis (July 4, 1923 – June 2, 2006) was an American toy developer and marketer who introduced some of the world's most notable brands including ""Chatty Cathy"", ""Barbie"", ""Hot Wheels"", ""Baby Alive"", and ""Strawberry Shortcake"", but perhaps his biggest marketing success was bringing a then-unknown film property called ""Star Wars"" to the toy shelves. Every toy company he worked for (Mattel, General Mills, and Hasbro) became ""the world's largest toy company"" during his tenures in each company. He also coined the word ""toyetic"" in a conversation with Steven Spielberg about translating his ""Close Encounters of the Third"
"Viewers have sometimes incorrectly identified the puppet itself as Jigsaw, because of its presence and connection to the killer. Age and use of the puppet over the course of the films necessitated its reconstruction. According to Wan, the original puppet's face for ""Saw"" involved clay, papier-mâché, and black ping-pong balls with the irises painted in for the eyes, but in later films more sophisticated construction included waterjet-cut foam for the body and remote-controlled animatronics. The endurance and popularity of the franchise has resulted in the production of ""Billy"" merchandise, as well as references in other media and its use in"
"Norwich on a regular basis. The puppets David Perry has used since appearing as the Norwich Puppet Man are: While the provenance of the first six puppets is unknown, “Basil” and “Suzy” were donated in June 2007 by the owners of “Langley's”, a Norwich toy shop located in Royal Arcade on Gentleman's Walk. Commenting on the puppets, Perry said about the gifts: ""Some people don’t like my singing. I was pleased to get the new puppets. I’ve named the fox Basil and the squirrel is his girlfriend Suzy. Basil likes to dance to the Beatles and Suzy sometimes makes an"
"Harry Corbett Harry Corbett OBE (28 January 1918 – 17 August 1989) was an English puppeteer, magician and television and stage presenter, who is best known as the creator of the glove puppet character Sooty in 1948. Corbett was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, to James W. Corbett, a coal miner, and his wife Florence, née Ramsden. A former electrician, deafness in one ear precluded Corbett from pursuing his musical ambitions to become a concert pianist, although he played the piano in the Guiseley fish and chip restaurant owned by his mother's brother Harry Ramsden. His parents had"
"leading to the exchange: The Polkaroo costume as seen above and on the original series was handmade in Toronto by Tanya Petrova, an immigrant artist from Toronto who made brief appearances on numerous television shows from ""Mr. Dressup"" to ""The Steve Allen Show"" in the late 1960s to early 1970s. Petrova also created 24 puppets, including Charlie Horse and Lionel for Shari Lewis, as well as costumes for Ontario Place theme park, Eaton's (for example, Glump) and other events and attractions. There were several other versions of the Polkaroo costume as well: the one with the long slender neck was"
"told her to send me along. It's just as simple as that."" Gerry approved of what Bishop termed his ""wall-to-wall corporate voice"", judging it suitable for the role of a ""smooth-talking co-star"". Although Bishop believed that he was the template for Blue's likeness, the puppet sculptor, Terry Curtis, had in fact already made a rough modelling in his own image, and simply changed the hair colour from brown to blond at the direction of Sylvia Anderson (Bishop himself, like Curtis, was darker-haired). The puppet's total cost was 500 guineas, or £525. It has been suggested that Blue's blue-eyed and blond-haired"
"and that a hand was up his back. Agro was a fan of retired Australian rugby league player Wally Lewis, writing and singing many songs about him. The original puppet was created by BTQ-7 employee Garry Rhodes, who was a floor manager at the time. It was an altered vintage 1978 Fisher-Price puppet of Animal from the Muppet show although it is often joked that he is made from a bathmat (Agro frequently describes himself as a 'talking bathmat'), the Agro puppet is more-or-less a version of the Muppet character Animal. Later, the producer of ""Agro's Cartoon Connection"" claimed that"
"as a top 10 business book on Amazon. Lori is married to Dan Greiner. Lori Greiner Lori Greiner (born December 9, 1969) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and television personality. She is best known as a cast member of the reality TV show ""Shark Tank"" and has been called ""one of the most prolific inventors of our time.” Also known as ""The Queen of QVC"" and the “Warm Blooded Shark”. She has also appeared on ""Shark Tank"" spin-off, ""Beyond the Tank"". Since 1998, she has appeared on the QVC program ""Clever & Unique Creations Show"". She is also president and"
"years, he took his magic show to schools and recreation centers and put on annual magic shows in parks in every NYC borough. For years after he left the department he continued his magic shows as a volunteer. Among his protégés was his daughter, television star Shari Lewis, the world famous ventriloquist and developer of Lamb Chop. Hurwitz was born in Lithuania in 1905. He graduated from City College of New York, obtained his master's degree from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in educational guidance from New York University. He began mixing magic with teaching as a guidance counselor at"
"artists Rudy Mancuso and Lele Pons. Shots featured original videos, including ""Awkward Puppets"", which became more popular outside of Shots. With the number of Shots users dropping, the Shahidis changed focus from software to content. Following the success of ""Awkward Puppets"", they saw an opportunity in helping development of short form comedy and music videos. Shots was rebranded to Shots Studios, a talent agency and production studio for social media personalities, predominantly on YouTube. Shahidi is the chief product officer (CPO), chief creative officer (CCO), and head of the engineering division. He often analyzes viewer data on their videos, looking"
"his “Frenchette” hand puppets, teaching French especially in his classes at Webster College (now University). Irene Eveland, a librarian with the Saint Louis Public Library, performed in libraries throughout the city as well as other venues. Margaret Bihss was also a very popular performer with her hand puppets. Judy Dauten would perform her authentic Punch and Judy. Pat Breithaupt also performs a ventriloquism act where she and her puppet often re-enact fairy tales. In 1989 the guild celebrated its 50th anniversary with a large display of puppets from the guild collection, from the collection of members, and puppets created by"
"16-year-old Josh in ""Mr. Meaty"" and as Swami Jeff in ""Swami Jeff's Temple of Wisdom"". Shannon is co-creator of ""Mr. Meaty"", along with Jason Hopley. As puppeteers, Shannon and Hopley also created all of the 'Mr. Meaty' puppets, from inception through construction to the final puppet characters. Shannon's and Hopley's monkey puppets named Ooh and Aah began in early April 2007 as the new hosts of Playhouse Disney. In the ""Nicktoons"" official website, in the ""Mr. Meaty"" videos section, there is a ""Nick Extra!"" where Jamie and Jason show you how to make your very own ""Mr. Meaty"" puppet. Jamie"
"just been beaten by nemesis Stone Cold Steve Austin. The sock puppet unexpectedly became a hit with wrestling fans, garnering chants from a crowd of more than 10,000 at the following week's program. Sock puppet A sock puppet is a puppet made from a sock or similar garment. The puppeteer wears the sock on a hand and lower arm as if it were a glove, with the puppet's mouth being formed by the region between the sock's heel and toe, and the puppeteer's thumb acting as the jaw. The arrangement of the fingers forms the shape of a mouth, which"