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Frank Oznowicz—known to many as legendary performer and film director Frank Oz—comes from parents who were puppeteers. His path to performing, puppetry, and using humor as a tool for social commentary and entertainment was paved by his parents, Isidore (Mike) and Frances Oznowicz, who created and performed marionettes as a hobby in Belgium with a mixture of politics and satire. When Mike and Frances escaped Belgium in the 1930s just before the Nazis invaded, they left their marionettes in their