{"id":43277,"date":"2024-03-23T04:05:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T08:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=43277"},"modified":"2024-03-23T20:53:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T00:53:36","slug":"shari-lamb-chop-2023-make-believe-film-festival-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/23\/shari-lamb-chop-2023-make-believe-film-festival-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Shari & Lamb Chop (2023) [Make Believe Film Festival 2024]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The biography of Shari Lewis is long overdue and a story worth telling. It\u2019s a perfect film for people that grew up watching Shari Lewis and Lambchop during various points of her illustrious career. Whether you\u2019re a boomer, Gen X, or Millennial, the odds are you have seen Lambchop at one point in your life. For me, I used to watch her revival show on PBS in the 1990\u2019s and tuned in regularly. I loved Lambchop despite being a tad too old for the intended target audience, but I didn\u2019t care. The story of Shari Lewis is one filled with a lot of happiness, a lot of promise and of course some terrible sadness that befell her later in her life.<\/p>\n

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Shari Lewis – like Fred Rogers, Jim Henson, and others – was a dancer, singer, and magician, but was best known as the ventriloquist behind sock puppets Charlie Horse, Hush Puppy and, of course, Lamb Chop. Lisa D\u2019Apolito\u2019s doc charts the life, loves, and career hits and misses of the spunky perfectionist who forever changed the face of children\u2019s television.<\/p>\n

Mainly Lisa D\u2019Apolito\u2019s portrait is a respectful look at the birth and creation of a trailblazer who\u2019d entertain kids of all kinds for decades. Using archival interviews with Lewis and talking with her daughters and surviving colleagues, we grab a wonderful sneak peek in to a woman who loved to entertain and most of all loved to lose herself in her characters. Shari is depicted as a woman who spent a lot of her life trying to look for a way to permanently get her voice out to audiences of all kinds, and this took a toll on her. As a young girl who grew up with entertainer parents that encouraged her to stand out and make her voice heard.<\/p>\n

She inevitably reached such popularity in the early days of television that she hosted hours of programming alongside her puppets. All that\u2019s missing from the documentary is the development of Lambchop and how Shari built the character to be so simple but so complex. That doesn\u2019t hinder the film though as we garner a deep dive in to Shari\u2019s love for entertaining and how her love for making people smile transformed in to other outlets. This included building on her career as an entertainer beyond puppetry, as well as using her platform to promote education and reading for kids. D\u2019Apolito doesn\u2019t shy away from the sadder aspects of Lewis\u2019 life which includes her troubled marriage, her sad battle with cancer, and her inability to jump start her career as a serious actress.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve at any point met or loved Shari Lewis and Lambchop and have \u201cThe Song That Never Ends\u201d memorized to this day, \u201cShari & Lambchop\u201d is a wonderful glimpse in to a creative genius like Mrs. Lewis as well as her lasting legacy and influence.<\/p>\n

The Make Believe Film Festival<\/a> screens exclusively in person at the Erickson Theatre, Northwest Film Forum, and the Grand Illusion Cinema from March 21st<\/sup> through the 26th<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The biography of Shari Lewis is long overdue and a story worth telling. It\u2019s a perfect film for people that grew up watching Shari Lewis and Lambchop during various points of her illustrious career. Whether you\u2019re a boomer, Gen X, or Millennial, the odds are you have seen Lambchop at one point in your life. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1284,12],"tags":[138,292,340,580,766],"class_list":["post-43277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-festivalsevents","category-movie-reviews","tag-biography","tag-documentary","tag-family","tag-kids","tag-performance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43284,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43277\/revisions\/43284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}