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Edgar Bergen -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The head went on a (A doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers) puppet named Charlie McCarthy, who became Bergen's lifelong (A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities) sidekick. |
 | | The star, however, was Charlie, who was always presented as a child – albeit in top-hat, cape, and monocle – a debonair, girl-crazy, child-about-town. |
 | | Bergen was not the most technically skilled ventriloquist – Charlie McCarthy frequently twitted him for moving his lips; but his sense of comedic timing was superb, and he handled Charlie's snappy dialogue with aplomb. |
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