File spoon-archives/puptcrit.archive/puptcrit_2002/puptcrit.0204, message 132


Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:45:56 -0700
From: Setzer Michael <blckjck-AT-mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: PUPT: Re: Secret Lives, revealed!! but not enough, perhaps National 




VITPUPPET-AT-aol.com wrote:

> could do justice to the topic.
>
> Now that it's been established that the belowmentioned book doesn't fill the
> need, someone else should take up the task of revealing the secret lives.
> And not only of puppets but also of the puppeteers.  Have you noticed most of
> them are really weird?  I mean, the fairly accurate portrait in "Being John
> Malkovitch" was still much too gentle.  There are a few crime and horror
> books and films that properly describe homicidal urges lurking within
> puppeteers (in particular ventriloquists) AND their wards and their nefarious
> connections with aliens, alienists and asylums, but someone should already
> unmask the whole bunch of them with their dirty little secrets.  Sometime
> their are little, but for some of the Vermont persuasion, humongous.

       You mean that the movie "Meet the Feebles" and the TV Show "Greg the Bunny"
doesn't tell you enough about what goes on behind the scenes when we puppeteers
aren't looking. ;-D



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