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* Technical innovations first appearing in TBW: a highly abbreviated list includes the Grand Slam Force, Stayman, lebensohl, PLOB, suit-preference signals, the unusual notrump, Puppet Stayman, and CRASH.

* The Art of the Puppet by Bil Baird ( 1965 ) Ridge Press / MacMillan

* Punch and Judy: Its Origin and Evolution by Michael Byrom ( 1972, 1988 ) DaSilva Puppet Books

Freak Show also served as the name for a CD-ROM released by the Voyager Company on January 1994, shortly after Laurie Anderson's first multimedia CD-ROM experiment, Puppet Motel.

* April 8 – Puppet On A String by Sandie Shaw ( music and text by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter ) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 for United Kingdom.

This was followed by two more films, " Le Cauchemar du fantoche " Puppet's Nightmare ", now lost and " Un Drame chez les fantoches " Puppet Drama ", called " The Love Affair in Toyland " for American release and " Mystical Love-Making " for British release, all completed in 1908.

The Puppet Masters is a 1951 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein in which American secret agents battle parasitic invaders from outer space.

Voldemort also appears in the Potter Puppet Pals sketches by Neil Cicierega.

* Potter Puppet Pals, a web series created by Neil Cicierega

It also featured non-musical media, such as the Bread and Puppet Theater and comedians Todd Barry, Kristen Schaal, John Mulaney, and Hannibal Buress as well as interactive musical installations by Cline and Kotche.

In Starspawn by Kenneth Von Gunden, Earth is infiltrated by small parasitic aliens capable of attaching themselves to a human and controlling him or her-similar to the scenario of Heinlein's aforementioned The Puppet Masters-except that the invasion takes place in Medieval England, against the background of knights besieging a castle.

The two eventually married, and remained a happy couple until the Skrull's true identity was exposed by the Thing and the Puppet Master.

In 2004, Feldman made a cameo appearance in the independent sci-fi comedy Space Daze which was distributed by Troma Entertainment in 2005, and starred in the made-for-TV slasher crossover film Puppet Master vs.

In it were two live-action puppets called " Puppet Pal Mitch " ( voiced by Rob Paulsen ) and " Puppet Pal Clem " ( voiced by Tom Kenny ) in which usually had Puppet Pal Mitch bonk Puppet Pal Clem on the head.

The Colony provided facilities and inspiration to over 1500 artists, and produced performances by New York city based artists who resided there: Paul Zaloom, Charles Moore African Dancers, Sachiyo Ito Japanese Dance, Bread and Puppet Theatre, Eiko & Koma, Gail Conrad Tap Dance, the Chinese Acrobats of Taipei, the Brubecks, and many more, as well as the first US International Conference on Theatre Anthropology featuring key speakers Eugenio Barba, Richard Schechner, and Edith Turner.

In 1994 she created a CD-ROM titled Puppet Motel, which was followed by Bright Red, co-produced by Brian Eno, and another spoken-word album, The Ugly One with the Jewels.

The 1982 novel Friday, a more conventional adventure story ( borrowing a character and backstory from the earlier short story Gulf, also containing suggestions of connection to The Puppet Masters ) continued a Heinlein theme of expecting what he saw as the continued disintegration of Earth's society, to the point where the title character is strongly encouraged to seek a new life off-planet.

The Białystok Puppet Theater (), established in 1953, is one of the oldest Polish puppet theaters.

One of the most often-cited parts of Anatoly Kuznetsov's documentary novel Babi Yar is the testimony of Dina Pronicheva, an actress of the Kiev Puppet Theatre, and a survivor.

The Rajasthani Puppet from India is notable and there are many Indian ventriloquists and puppeteers.

Their new album titled ' Puppet " is set to release on 11 / 1 / 11 Members of the band include Stabbing Westward and Econoline Crush drummer Johnny Haro, Murderdolls-guitarist Eric Griffin, bassist Martin Kelly from Living Dead Lights and guitarist Ryan Seelback.

Podgorica is also host to the City Theatre ( Gradsko pozorište ), which includes the Children's Theatre and the Puppet Theatre.

Koyo Shrine Puppet Show-This is a puppet show also known as " Kitabaru Puppet Show " which uses kugutsu puppets that perform dance and sumo wrestling matches.

" Dunoon is referenced in the 2010 Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre sketch ' The Getaway ', in which the bank-robbing Socks mistakenly heist four kilos of small denomination coins and are forced to scale back their hideaway destination from Venezuela to the small Scottish town.

The only purpose-built UK marionette theatre is The Harlequin Puppet Theatre ( built 1958 ) in Rhos on Sea, North Wales, Founded by the late Eric Bramall FRSA and continued by Chris Somerville.

Other theatres that occasionally perform with marionettes are the Little Angel Theatre founded by John and Lyndie Wright in Islington, London, Whose first ever show The Wild Night Of The Witches was a marionette play, It opened the theatre in 1961 and was revived for the 50th anniversary in 2011 The Norwich Puppet Theatre founded by Ray & Joan DaSilva sometimes present marionette shows and the Puppet Theatre Barge continue to perform using long string marionettes throughout the year, founded by Gren Middleton and Juliet Rogers The barge is based in Little Venice, London during the winter months and tours to places such as Richmond Upon Thames during the summer.

* Davros's threats to destroy Gallifrey and the Time Lords are referenced in the Doctor Who Annual 2006, where it is claimed that " one of the Dalek Puppet Emperors openly declared his hostility ".

Nakamura refuses on the basis that the Puppet Master is just a self-preserving program, with Project 2501 arguing back that DNA is the same.

Additionally, Biggar has Scotland's only permanent puppet theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the well known Purves Puppets family.

There is an opera-ballet theater, a philharmonic orchestra, Chuvash State Puppet Theater and numerous theaters ( showing productions in both Russian and Chuvash languages ).

There is a professional Puppet Show and the Angazhement Youth Theater.

Neil Cicierega, also the creator of the Potter Puppet Pals, is responsible from the outset explosion of Harry Potter's use in animutation, most notably starting in Hyakugojyuuichi.

Biwa-cho is the home of the Tonda Traditional Bunraku Puppet Troupe, a troupe founded in the 1830s in the tradition of Bunraku puppetry.

* Abdulla Shaig Puppet Theatre in Baku, Azerbaijan is completed and opened.

Originally intended for theatrical release in summer 1989, before being released on home video the following September, Puppet Master was ultimately pushed to a direct-to-video release on October 12, 1989, as Charles Band felt he was likely to make more money this way than he would in the theatrical market.

" A Sunday Kind of Love " b / w " Poor Little Puppet " ( Liberty 55397 )-BB No. 95-( LA ) ( AJB )

This was in the middle of Army of Anyone's set, which they listed as Meat Puppet Theatre on the evening's set list.

The Merseburg Palace Festival with the Historical Pageant, the International Palace-Moat Concerts, Merseburg Organ Days and the Puppet Show Festival Week are highlights celebrated every year.

* Composer John Massari would go on to work on such films as Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Skeletons, Retro Puppet Master and such television shows as POV Murder and Prison Break: Proof of Innocence.

* Russian — Blok, Alexander: The Fairground Booth a. k. a. The Puppet Show ( 1906 ); Evreinov, Nikolai: A Merry Death ( 1908 ), Today's Columbine ( 1915 ), The Chief Thing ( 1921 ; turned into film, La Comédie du bonheur, in 1940 ).

Aside from these, the most interesting events are " Theatrical Confrontations " in Lublin ( October ), the open-air " Malta " festival in Poznań ( June ), Kraków's " Ballet in Spring " and the Puppet Theatre Biennial in Bielsko-Biała.

Puppet, Vassal, Quisling, or Satellite states have been routinely used in exercises of foreign policy to give weight to the arguments of the country that controls them.

The flagship Macy's Department Store at Herald Square in New York features a 30 Minute Puppet version of the story within its Santaland display, featuring the voice talents of Broadway stars Brian Stokes Mitchell and Victoria Clark.

Many well-known science fiction writers were to follow, including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Clifford Simak, plus Robert A. Heinlein who wrote The Puppet Masters in 1953.

The classic examples of this would be Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Arrival, the gradual evolution of humans to ‘ hybrid ’ aliens in TV's Invasion, Threshold, the Animorphs series, Invader Zim, Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters and the John W. Campbell, Jr. short story " Who Goes There?