tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207406441273778964.post7976933942665094882..comments2023-11-20T05:17:33.004-08:00Comments on flexitoon: IT'S PAUL WINCHELL'S BIRTHDAY!!!Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659054672758845893noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207406441273778964.post-7443020914292026692012-12-21T06:40:34.439-08:002012-12-21T06:40:34.439-08:00Ah.....Thanks Craig. It was Carrot Top in the mov...Ah.....Thanks Craig. It was Carrot Top in the movie "Lili," Howdy Doody and Jerry Mahoney. Then, I was "done." Still creating and performing at 66.Conradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11154962317297569359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207406441273778964.post-88884719829181160072011-04-20T13:13:52.644-07:002011-04-20T13:13:52.644-07:00Paul was my inspiration as well. i never had the c...Paul was my inspiration as well. i never had the chance to meet him, but he changed my life and I guess made me what I am today. I did get to meet Olga at the Barrow Street theater as I took the course with Sully and Fania, and worked briefly in the shop on the Pinnocio puppets, thirty some years ago.Bob Conradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11219433571138755767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207406441273778964.post-61119285861648251402011-03-01T11:58:07.308-08:002011-03-01T11:58:07.308-08:00I Love the photos Craig of Paul with his puppets.....I Love the photos Craig of Paul with his puppets..but..the most beautilful and loving?<br /><br /> Is the color shot of Young Ms.April Winchell with her arm around"Mr.Knucklehead Smiff"and "Mr.Jerry Mahoney"is watching this tender scene with love.<br /><br /> You don't get such scenes like this anymore.<br /><br /> Thanks for sharing this tribute to Paul Winchell,<br /><br /> Mr.KTV.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11347014542695813734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207406441273778964.post-8828603229353854982010-12-30T18:12:00.772-08:002010-12-30T18:12:00.772-08:00Thanks for posting this, Craig. I also took Paul&#...Thanks for posting this, Craig. I also took Paul's book from the library repeatedly as a kid. It has great instructions for articulated facial features that could not be found in other puppet-building books. I loved his story of clogging the bathtub drain in his hotel room with plaster of paris, trying to make a mold for a puppet head. His TV show was fantastic and it was great to hear about it again.<br /> -Steven->Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207406441273778964.post-66120578401351256502010-12-23T18:36:43.232-08:002010-12-23T18:36:43.232-08:00Very, very nice. Paul was good frineds with a frie...Very, very nice. Paul was good frineds with a friend of mine, June Foray. She loved working and talking to himFrank Calihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15016771631270569309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207406441273778964.post-15886579032885542122010-12-22T07:06:32.753-08:002010-12-22T07:06:32.753-08:00I met Daniel Linck (above comment) at the NAPTE CO...I met Daniel Linck (above comment) at the NAPTE CONVENTION where I was pitching "CaRt00nY ViSi0n" and he was pitching Paul Winchell Videos! He had become a good friend and business associate with his childhood idol, Winch, and Dann (as he was known then) and I became fast friends. Though I'd been corresponding with Paul for years, I'd never met him. So when I visited Dann in LA (I flew out for a Grateful Dead concert!)he arranged a lunch and PAUL WINCHELL was there!!! What a great surprise. Paul gave me his book "GOD 2000" ("I think you will appreciate this" he said) and then took us to a Hanna/Barbera recording session for the SMURFS. Daniel eventually helped develop and produce the Flexitoon/PBS Special "GOIN' UP" (which I wrote about in earlier blog postings). Dann is one of our dearest and most special friends.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02659054672758845893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207406441273778964.post-6709022702247910582010-12-22T01:11:39.218-08:002010-12-22T01:11:39.218-08:00Craig, thank you so very much for this moving trib...Craig, thank you so very much for this moving tribute to the One and Only PW. Flowing, heartfelt and inspired...a thing of beauty, buddy. And such rare photo gems! I love the one of you and Olga with him! That was the Winch I knew and loved. Yes, Paul was one of a kind, a true genius and a fascinating chapter of my life in the precious few years we worked together. He gave me the gift of his trust, which I shall forever cherish. His kind of smarts -- unique, endlessly creative -- approached savant caliber. He'd write his cue cards upside down so he could read their reflection right-side up in the camera lens, his own low tech prompter. I'd look over in the editing room and he'd be teaching himself Japanese as we built a promo film for NAPTE. Even at his advanced age, he was a handsome rascal and solidly built, like a middleweight boxer. He stayed young in his heart the whole time I knew him -- he was always 25, multi-tasking, bouncing around, a whirling dervish Tasmanian Devil, his marvelous mind never stopping. Always creating. Typical of him would be calling to apologize for missing lunch because he had to be in Washington D.C. to appear in front of the Senate to pitch his idea for quelling hunger in Africa by a type of aquiculture (fish farming) he developed where tons of fish could be raised in brakish saltwater to feed the starving multitudes. "Yeah", he'd say matter of factly, "I gotta go meet Ed Asner and Richard Dreyfuss at this Senate thing and pitch the fish farm." He loved Chez Nous on Riverside Drive in Toluca Lake because the waitresses were cute and he could speak French to the cook. And I can only imagine how much he loved hearing that he was your Reason. A kid who taught himself ventriloquism while he laid in bed with polio, now thanked so eloquently for inspiring such a special life-altering passion. An amazing man who we miss so much. Your tribute is gold. His glow shimmers from the light you've held on it for us. Deep thanks and love from your bro' in very wet California.Daniel Linckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09119285707120412811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207406441273778964.post-207941279889575312010-12-21T12:42:06.512-08:002010-12-21T12:42:06.512-08:00Thanks for posting this. He was inspirational to ...Thanks for posting this. He was inspirational to so many kids of our generation. Your memories are so vivid, tender, and respectful.<br /><br />What else can I say... thanks!Allynn Gooenhttp://goowinsballoowins.comnoreply@blogger.com