Word: ventriloquist
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...Rove's vindictiveness. Rove should be fired immediately, but it will be hard for the President to oust his most trusted adviser. Jennifer Denny Peoria, Illinois, U.S. The media are making the Plame case far too complicated. Bush can no more fire Rove than dummy Charlie McCarthy could fire ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. Edmund C. Valentine Wabasso, Florida, U.S. This entire affair reminds me too much of typical middle school-clique in-fighting - except that 13-year-olds don't hold the power of life and death over millions of people. What can we do to ensure that positions of power...
...peripatetically perky Tigger (Winchell); in Englewood, New Jersey and Moorpark, California, respectively. Fiedler, a veteran character actor, played other memorable roles, including Mr. Peterson, the brow-beaten therapy patient on The Bob Newhart Show in the 1970s. Winchell, an early star of TV who regularly performed his ventriloquist act on variety shows in the 1950s and '60s, coined Tigger's trademark sign...
...Pooh films as two of Pooh's best pals, the ever anxious Piglet (Fiedler) and the peripatetically perky Tigger (Winchell); in Englewood, N.J., and Moorpark, Calif., respectively. Fiedler, a veteran character actor, played Mr. Peterson, the browbeaten therapy patient on The Bob Newhart Show, and Winchell, a popular ventriloquist, coined Tigger's trademark sign...
DIED. JAY MARSHALL, 85, magician-ventriloquist dubbed the Dean of Magic by the Society of American Magicians; in Chicago. An opening act for performers from Frank Sinatra to Milton Berle and a frequent guest on the Ed Sullivan Show, he would banter with his brash puppet, Lefty, and perform signature tricks like the Jaspernese Thumb Tie, in which his crossed thumbs, securely interlocked, penetrated spectators' legs, chairs and other objects...
BORN. To Candice Bergen, 39, cool, elegant blond actress (Carnal Knowledge, Rich and Famous) and author of a best-selling memoir (Knock Wood) about her life as Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's daughter; and her husband Louis Malle, 53, French director (Lacombe, Lucien, Atlantic City); their first child (Malle has two children from a previous marriage), a daughter; in New York City. Name: Chloe. Weight...