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"Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television."
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"Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions."
"At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design."
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"There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday."
"No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style."
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"Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US."
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