SHARI & LAMBCHOP
A FILM BY LISA D’APOLITO
In theaters beginning Thursday, July 17: http://bit.ly/shariandlambchop
“The transferring cinematic tribute Shari Lewis deserves.”
– Christopher Llewellyn Reed, Movie Pageant Right now
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Earlier than Fred Rogers and Jim Henson, there was Shari Lewis, a kids’s tv pioneer whose whimsical characters and ebullient spirit have guided generations of youngsters. Raised within the Bronx by a proud feminist mom and a professor father who moonlighted as Peter Pan the Magic Man, Shari grew to become a multitalented dancer, singer, and magician. However when an harm sidelined her dance aspirations, she channeled her creativity right into a ardour for ventriloquism, creating the now beloved sock puppet characters Charlie Horse, Hush Pet and, after all, Lamb Chop. From her early years of TV success to the blow of her present’s cancellation to her Nineteen Nineties comeback, Lisa D’Apolito’s (Love, Gilda) heartfelt documentary charts the life, loves, and profession hits and misses of a spunky perfectionist whose expertise and perseverance stand as a testomony to ladies’s energy and ceaselessly modified the panorama of youngsters’s leisure. That includes interviews with ventriloquists impressed by Lewis alongside nostalgia-rich clips and residential films, this vibrant portrait brims with the identical heat, wit, and magic that outlined her, celebrating the ability of creativeness and the interior baby inside us all.
A Kino Lorber launch
