Last year, the highly popular "Wicked" was bested by "Avenue Q, " a plucky little puppet show that moved from off-Broadway.

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Often accompanied by his sidekick Little Frank - a glove puppet made in his own image - Frank became a regular face on TV in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Throw in growing evidence that our devil-take-the-hindmost abandonment of Iraq is translating into that country becoming little more than an Iranian puppet state and the feeling is palpable: Confidence in presidential leadership is declining, both among the troops and those who truly support them.

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Not doing this was outside the normal procedures of the assembly and was part of a plan by Sinn Fein and the DUP to appoint "a puppet minister", which gave little integrity or authority to the position.

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Not doing this was outside the normal procedures of the assembly and was part of a plan by Sinn Fein and the DUP to appoint "a puppet minister", which gave little integrity or authority to the position, he said.

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That means that as of right now, Summit has very little money invested in the quirky film, which stars Gibson as a man who talks to a beaver hand puppet.

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