Taha Mandviwala as Pi and puppeteers Anna Leigh Gortner, Shiloh Goodin, and Toussaint Jeanlouis as Richard Parker in "Life of Pi." Richard Parker, the Bengal tiger puppet in "Life of Pi ...

The greeting was always the same: “What’s going on? Whaddaya got?” It was Richard Parker, imitating one of our overcaffeinated editors from the 1990s at the Albuquerque Journal.