From: "Alan Cook" <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com> To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:07:31 GMT Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] puptcrit Digest, Vol 20, Issue 49 Have you got any pictures of Giulani? Dante's Inferno film has lots of celebs paper puppets. Is a trend developing here? ALAN -----Original Message----- From: puptcrit-request-AT-lists.driftline.org Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:32 PM To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Subject: puptcrit Digest, Vol 20, Issue 49 Send puptcrit mailing list submissions to puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to puptcrit-request-AT-lists.driftline.org You can reach the person managing the list at puptcrit-owner-AT-lists.driftline.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of puptcrit digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Puppetry Journal/celebrity puppet portraits (eileen blumenthal) 2. Celebrity puppet portraits puptcrit Digest, Vol 20, Issue 47 (Tina Farmilo) 3. Re: Puppetry Journal/celebrity puppet portraits (LSnyder262-AT-aol.com) 4. Re: Puppetry Journal/celebrity puppet portraits (Mark S. Segal) 5. Re: New member ask and present... (Puppet Planet) 6. Re: Celebrity puppet portraits (Robert Rogers) 7. Re: Puppetry Journal/celebrity puppet portraits (dorlis grubidge) 8. Re: Puppetry Journal/celebrity puppet portraits (Mary Horsley) 9. Re: Puppetry Journal/celebrity puppet portraits (Stephen Kaplin) 10. Re: Toy Theater movie-Dante's Inferno (mjm) 11. PoA Fest Blast from the Past (BiersBlackwood-AT-aol.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:44:29 -0400 From: eileen blumenthal <hrotsvitha-AT-earthlink.net> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppetry Journal/celebrity puppet portraits To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Message-ID: <6909C2E1-5915-43F8-BD1C-BB7FDA3D06D3-AT-earthlink.net> Hi Alan et al, Check through the Politics chapter of my book. There have been LOTS of portraits of political figures. (Also, do you count South Park's Saddam Hussein?) Shari Lewis danced with a life-size Fred Astaire at a puppetry festival in maybe 1970. Also, Rufus & Margo Rose did Fred and Ginger marionette (I'm not sure if it had one or two controls). The Crowtations (formerly known as the Crowations) did a Harriet Tubman. Others have done her too. Do you want to include some of Paul Zaloom's "portraits"--eg. George Bush Sr. as, literally, a miniature bush &, if memory serves, Ronald Reagan as a sports trophy of some kind. Do you want to include Nativities? How about the *NSync marionettes? Also, I know I've seen puppets of The Three Stooges, but I'm not sure where. Eileen On Jun 20, 2006, at 6:50 PM, Alan Cook wrote: > How many puptcritters have made or used puppet portraits of people > considered celebrities? > > I need photos and background information. > > My preliminary list based on memory includes the following who made > celeb puppets: > > Tatterman Marionettes (1930s) Myrna Loy marionette (currently on > display at Great Arizona Puppet Theater) > > Steve Hansen hand puppet of Richard Nixon > > Lillian Faulkner--various vodvil stars n miniature (1920s/30s) > > Lillian Owen- Greenwich Village Follies (on Broadway) 1920s > portrait marionettes of Maurice Chevalier, Harry Lauder & others > > Tony Urbano: various stage & screen stars (many used in Hollywood > at Universal Studio Tour Show years ago) including Edith Piaf, Bob > Hope, Phyliss Diller) > > Mantell Manikins (1930s, maybe earlier) Jimmy Durante marionette > > Yale Puppeteers (Harry Burnett) Franklin Roosevelt, Helen Hayes, > Garbo, Marie Dressler, Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons, Ramon > Navarro, Aimee Semple MacPherson (the vanishing evangelist), Albert > Einstein (who was photo'd wih his puppet, as was Helen Hayes with > hers), Gary Cooper etc. > > Krofft Puppets: Jayne Mansfield, Brigit Bardot, Jackie Gleason and > many others > > Scott Land-Michael Jackson > > Phillip Huber--Liza Minelli > > Bil Baird- a host of celebs, including FDR and Ed Sullivan. > > The use of portrait puppets is widespread. Should YOU be added to > this list? Do you know of other puppeteers who should be added? > > Also, have any of you made self-portrait puppets? Frank Paris did > a hand puppet version of himself which he could operate while > seated (following an accident in NYC which temporarily ended his > working marionettes). > > ALAN COOK > > _______________________________________________ > List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org > Admin interface: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit- > driftline.org > Archives: http://www.driftline.org ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:22:57 -0700 From: "Tina Farmilo" <CFAR-AT-gulfislands.com> Subject: [Puptcrit] Celebrity puppet portraits puptcrit Digest, Vol 20, Issue 47 To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org> Message-ID: <20060620212300.36389B796A-AT-generation.lgisp.net> Re Alan's question - "How many puptcritters have made or used puppet portraits of people considered celebrities?" In Vancouver in the '80s Vern Clare - giant puppet maker extraordinaire - built a Bunraku style 10'+ giant-puppet [body & head mounted on a pole to a back-pack, arms manipulated by two other puppeteers]of our then prime-minister Brian Mulroney. It was commissioned by some local Labour organisers for the annual May day parade that year. It was a greasily good likeness of the politician - toothy smile, pompadour hair and little bum-cleft chin... snappy suit too. Will see if there's a photo somewhere. Tina Farmilo ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:51:58 EDT From: LSnyder262-AT-aol.com Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppetry Journal/celebrity puppet portraits To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Message-ID: <4fe.d7c3a4.31c9c7fe-AT-aol.com> My husband, Terry Snyder, made a portrait hand puppet of the actress Pat Carroll. She's a friend and it was given to her as a gift. Somewhere we have a photo, I'll try to find it if you'd like a copy. Linda Snyder ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:31:16 -0400 From: "Mark S. Segal" <segalpuppets-AT-comcast.net> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppetry Journal/celebrity puppet portraits To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org> Message-ID: <004401c694b9$3ef85300$0302a8c0-AT-MARK01> reply-type=original Eileen, I saw Shari Lewis dance with her Fred Astaire at the opening of the International festival in 1980.... Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "eileen blumenthal" <hrotsvitha-AT-earthlink.net> To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppetry Journal/celebrity puppet portraits > Hi Alan et al, > > Check through the Politics chapter of my book. There have been LOTS > of portraits of political figures. (Also, do you count South Park's > Saddam Hussein?) > Shari Lewis danced with a life-size Fred Astaire at a puppetry > festival in maybe 1970. > Also, Rufus & Margo Rose did Fred and Ginger marionette (I'm not > sure if it had one or two controls). > The Crowtations (formerly known as the Crowations) did a Harriet > Tubman. Others have done her too. > Do you want to include some of Paul Zaloom's "portraits"--eg. George > Bush Sr. as, literally, a miniature bush &, if memory serves, Ronald > Reagan as a sports trophy of some kind. > > Do you want to include Nativities? > > How about the *NSync marionettes? > Also, I know I've seen puppets of The Three Stooges, but I'm not sure > where. > > Eileen > > > > On Jun 20, 2006, at 6:50 PM, Alan Cook wrote: > >> How many puptcritters have made or used puppet portraits of people >> considered celebrities? >> >> I need photos and background information. >> >> My preliminary list based on memory includes the following who made >> celeb puppets: >> >> Tatterman Marionettes (1930s) Myrna Loy marionette (currently on >> display at Great Arizona Puppet Theater) >> >> Steve Hansen hand puppet of Richard Nixon >> >> Lillian Faulkner--various vodvil stars n miniature (1920s/30s) >> >> Lillian Owen- Greenwich Village Follies (on Broadway) 1920s >> portrait marionettes of Maurice Chevalier, Harry Lauder & others >> >> Tony Urbano: various stage & screen stars (many used in Hollywood >> at Universal Studio Tour Show years ago) including Edith Piaf, Bob >> Hope, Phyliss Diller) >> >> Mantell Manikins (1930s, maybe earlier) Jimmy Durante marionette >> >> Yale Puppeteers (Harry Burnett) Franklin Roosevelt, Helen Hayes, >> Garbo, Marie Dressler, Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons, Ramon >> Navarro, Aimee Semple MacPherson (the vanishing evangelist), Albert >> Einstein (who was photo'd wih his puppet, as was Helen Hayes with >> hers), Gary Cooper etc. >> >> Krofft Puppets: Jayne Mansfield, Brigit Bardot, Jackie Gleason and >> many others >> >> Scott Land-Michael Jackson >> >> Phillip Huber--Liza Minelli >> >> Bil Baird- a host of celebs, including FDR and Ed Sullivan. >> >> The use of portrait puppets is widespread. Should YOU be added to >> this list? Do you know of other puppeteers who should be added? >> >> Also, have any of you made self-portrait puppets? Frank Paris did >> a hand puppet version of himself which he could operate while >> seated (following an accident in NYC which temporarily ended his >> working marionettes). >> >> ALAN COOK >> >> _______________________________________________ >> List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org >> Admin interface: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit- >> driftline.org >> Archives: http://www.driftline.org > > _______________________________________________ > List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org > Admin interface: > http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org > Archives: http://www.driftline.org > ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:42:38 -0400 From: "Puppet Planet" <michele-AT-puppet-planet.com> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] New member ask and present... To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org> Message-ID: <LPBBKNLELJNBELOBKNBIOELDCJAA.michele-AT-puppet-planet.com> Excuse me for not being familiar with what Svend was talking about. However, I don't think that illiterate comment was necessary. As an American, I respect all cultures regardless of their ability to speak or understand our language. I certainly hope that you forgive us "Amerikanas" for the same, and that you were not directing that comment to me or anyone else on the boards. Being unfriendly and insulting people who make an attempt to respond to his post doesn't exactly motivate others to participate. Regards, -Michele -----Original Message----- From: puptcrit-bounces-AT-lists.driftline.org [mailto:puptcrit-bounces-AT-lists.driftline.org]On Behalf Of Kismet Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 4:38 PM To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] New member ask and present... Hey Svend..... Welcome to the list. As you are probable realising it is dominated by Amerikanas.....but we are not all illiterate....or American...... Beautiful imagery...reference to oceans relates to the sound track alone or the environment the performance exists in?..... Did you complete the video? Had an interesting discussion with a compatriot of yours, Peter Manscher from Teatercentrum and ASSITEJ, about the state of Puppetry in Denmark, very exciting times for you all, congratulations. Peter touched on a praxis defined as "eye-Level" theatre. Do you know much about this? Care to expand. Thanks Daniel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Puppet Planet" <michele-AT-puppet-planet.com> To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 3:43 AM Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] New member ask and present... > > Is neo puppetry possibly... black light? =) > > > -Michele > > -----Original Message----- > From: puptcrit-bounces-AT-lists.driftline.org > [mailto:puptcrit-bounces-AT-lists.driftline.org]On Behalf Of Preston > Foerder > Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:38 PM > To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org > Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] New member ask and present... > > > I was going to leave it at that but thought better of it. While the > terms you're using may be English translations of common Danish puppet > terminology they don't quite translate. I'm afraid we're going to need > some definitions. Neopuppetry and neo-puppet? Hypernaturalistic (I > probably get that one), display and especially Feralia Nuptiae? Please > elucidate. > > Preston > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: puptcrit-bounces-AT-lists.driftline.org > [mailto:puptcrit-bounces-AT-lists.driftline.org] On Behalf Of Svend E. > Kristensen > Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 10:48 AM > To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org > Subject: [Puptcrit] New member ask and present... > > Dear all > > Is this list stil active? > As a new member I'm quite curious about the activity? > > i'm writing and reseaching in rituals for the neopuppetry > and are supported by the Danish artcouncil in constructing my own > very modern lifesized neo-puppet. > A construct involving aesthetics, design and completely new > construction methods. > To be displayed in Tokyo Japan Augsu 2006 > And in my home country Denmark during autum in Copenhagen. > - we uses terms like hypernaturalistic, display and Feralia Nuptiae..... > > We do have a great knowledge in puppetry, rituals, the arts and > aesthetics. > > You will find at my homepage articles like: > Ritualistic orientated performance, from cult to epic.... > > www.medietogmasken.dk > > warm regards > Svend E Kristensen > > artistic director > mediet og masken (the media and the mask) > www.medietogmasken.dk > > www.unima.dk > www.scenekunstnere.dk > _______________________________________________ > List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org > Admin interface: > http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org > Archives: http://www.driftline.org > > > _______________________________________________ > List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org > Admin interface: > http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org > Archives: http://www.driftline.org > > _______________________________________________ > List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org > Admin interface: > http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org > Archives: http://www.driftline.org > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.1/369 - Release Date: 19/06/2006 > _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Admin interface: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org Archives: http://www.driftline.org ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:19:49 -0400 From: "Robert Rogers" <robertrogers-AT-frontiernet.net> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Celebrity puppet portraits To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org> Message-ID: <001a01c694d0$cbde4dd0$8fd7d7aa-AT-puppet> reply-type=original > "How many puptcritters have made or used puppet > portraits of people considered celebrities?" During the 1930's and 40's, Lewis and Sara Goldsmith - a brother and sister team - used marionette versions of Clark Gable, Fanny Brice, Carmen Miranda, etc. They also performed a play about the Jewish holiday of Purim and made the villain, Haman, to resemble Hitler. I knew Sara and inherited her puppet collection. I have photos if anyone is interested. Robert Rogers www.robertrogerspuppets.com ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:30:13 -0500 From: dorlis grubidge <dordan-AT-northnet.net> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppetry Journal/celebrity puppet portraits To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Message-ID: <4498AF35.CF02F935-AT-northnet.net> Hi Alan, Sue Hastings portrait puppets are listed and shown in my book: Sue Hastings; Puppet Showwoman 1924-42. I believe Sue's puppets were conidered the finest. What is the name of the toy theatre film of Dante's Inferno? Please let us know when it becomes available. I do enjoy your posts on this list. Dorlis ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:18:40 -0400 From: "Mary Horsley" <mphorsley-AT-earthlink.net> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppetry Journal/celebrity puppet portraits To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Message-ID: <410-22006632131840343-AT-earthlink.net> Linda, I just want to see Terry! It has been so long.....perhaps I will call you this summer. Mary "The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." -Walter Bagehot "One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."-----Eleanor Roosevelt "Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. -Michael Landon www.gentleteaching.com We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are. --Oprah Winfrey > [Original Message] > From: <LSnyder262-AT-aol.com> > To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org> > Date: 6/20/2006 5:52:14 PM > Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppetry Journal/celebrity puppet portraits > > My husband, Terry Snyder, made a portrait hand puppet of the actress Pat > Carroll. She's a friend and it was given to her as a gift. Somewhere we have a > photo, I'll try to find it if you'd like a copy. > > Linda Snyder > _______________________________________________ > List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org > Admin interface: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org > Archives: http://www.driftline.org ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:27:46 -0400 From: Stephen Kaplin <skactw-AT-tiac.net> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppetry Journal/celebrity puppet portraits To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Message-ID: <2db720ff77e384136f3b6073c31803bf-AT-tiac.net> Great Small Works has done a fair amount of political puppet portraiture (ripped directly from yesterday's newspapers) for our "Toy Theater of Terror As Usual" series. My favorite by far was a grinning Rudy Guilianni, who popped up over the stage, wearing a bishop's mitre and turquois blue cowboy boots, singing a variation of the old Shaker hymn "Lord of the Dance." Perhaps if you ask nicely, John Bell will sing it for you into your answering machines. Stephen ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:45:06 -0500 From: mjm <mmoynihan-AT-wi.rr.com> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Toy Theater movie-Dante's Inferno To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Message-ID: <3006ca2ac324d53f69631c5046b5bfeb-AT-wi.rr.com> I look forward to this coming out! They have a web site based slide show: http://www.dantefilm.com/slideshow.html and several minutes of quicktime trailers: http://www.dantefilm.com/imagery.html Sadly the images remind me of my own home City, Milwaukee. But I guess they could be anyplace on the coast of a large body of water. In my own neighborhood a homeless/mentally ill man was brutally murdered at his makeshift residence under a bridge. The cops are as feared by citizens as criminals, where they have attacked, murdered and assaulted citizens with great regularity and little fear of presecution. mjm On Jun 20, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Alan Cook wrote: > Last night I attended a preview of a contemporary interpretation of > Dante's Inferno--"three years in the making"---and for me it was one > discovery after another. A manually animated film, using the > conventions of paper (puppet) theatre, but "opened up" by the camera. > No attempt to hide the hand-manipulated aspects, which I found to be a > plus. > > When the paper curtains descend, sometimes they close on an angle, > just as if some kid was operating the show. It reminds you that this > is a hands-on production. > > There are duplicate forms of leading characters with changes of facial > expression, with front, back and side views, even one animated mouth > sequence---a jaw literally drops down in awe. In another scene, Dante > through the miracle of many folds becomes a "vertical accordion". > > The hands of Divine Punishment are real hands, and boy do they look > BIG! > > Towards the end, you meet a giant red devil, portrayed by Paul Zaloom > (he says it was typecasting). > > There are ocean waves imitating stage effects from melodrama, vodvil > and other earlier theatre. > > All the gimmicks have a purpose. > > One of the many appeals of the staged"Lion King" was that the audience > was a participant in using imagination---you could see many of the > mechanics AND you also coud accept the characters. So here on a vastly > smaller scale, the same principle is at work. > > Contemporary touches include Golden Arches in the landscape and paper > automobiles, a suspension Bridge like the one in San Francisco. > > Marketing of the film has not begun yet---so you can't rush out to see > it It ain't for the children or the faint of heart, and some people's > favored politicians, popes, robber barons, movie stars and other > sinners are royally skewered, so it won't sit well with some political > viewpoints. > > Like the new GRAND OPERA , "Grendel" which cost tons of money, there > are naughty words and simulated sex, and achievement of bladder relief > resulting in audience laughs. But you won't need to read a synopsis to > understand this movie. > > Ironically, this tale of a descent into hell was shown in a beautiful > facility, around the corner from where I lived in the early 1960s--my > garage apartment is gone, replaced by a parking lot. The Lucky Market > built when I lived there, is now a discount "Big Lots" store, and at > night its parking lot provides shelter for many, many homeless people > sleeping on the asphalt and the cement. Much of the neighborhood looks > like scenes from the Inferno, now. > > ALAN COOK ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:32:28 EDT From: BiersBlackwood-AT-aol.com Subject: [Puptcrit] PoA Fest Blast from the Past To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Message-ID: <522.bf33ef.31ca25dc-AT-aol.com> I was wondering if any of the regular members here might remember an outdoor, possibly impromptu performance at a Puppeteers of America Festival in Storrs, Connecticut, some years ago. I saw a videotape (in 2001) of someone doing a one man flea circus routine, without a flea circus. There was, as I recall, only one flea involved, and one straw. Of course, the straw was the only thing we could see. The athletic flea-- wearing a pair of "Fleaboks," or so we were told-- was to be blown out of the straw and land on a small child from the audience. I don't know who might have given this performance, or what year it may have been taped, but I'd like to see it again, in case anyone here can place it, or remembers having seen it or who might have done it. Thanks, Sean in NY www.puppets.inuk.com/americas/usroundup.htm ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Admin interface: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org Archives: http://www.driftline.org End of puptcrit Digest, Vol 20, Issue 49 **************************************** _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Admin interface: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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