WASHINGTON – Jerry Smolinsky may be no dummy, but he was pretty close to one on Friday. The 55-year-old ventriloquist was riding in a cab Friday morning in Arlington, Va., with his dummy in tow, when ...
Lizzie has been tucked in a wooden trunk bearing her name and stowed inside Linda Mae Glader’s closet for more than 40 years. But the dummy — a handcrafted ventriloquist doll with striking blue eyes, ...
ERLANGER, Ky. — For years, ventriloquism has held a reputation as being dorky at best, sinister at worst. Even now it summons up horror movies about a homicidal dummy, or a homicidal ventriloquist, or ...
I still remember the first time I ever saw a ventriloquist in action. The legendary Edgar Bergen and his dummy sidekicks, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, appeared on an episode of The Muppet Show ...
Sophie Becker spends her free time visiting museums, drawing, going to the movies and taking in all that New York City has to offer. Also on her list of loves? Ventriloquism, which has morphed from a ...
They may be dummies, but the 1,100 of them at the world's only ventriloquist museum in Northern Kentucky are picky. For years, they've needed climate control, special lighting, and bigger digs. Thanks ...
Sophie Becker has an unlikely job for a 31 year old these days The New York City artist works as a ventriloquist, performing multiple times per month Becker tells PEOPLE she picked up the hobby during ...