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  1. Jason Segel, Muppet Savior: New Movie Brings Lovable Faces Back to Silver Screen

    Wed, 2 Nov 2011

    I wanted to bring the Muppets back to those first three and a collection of other puppets and Muppet-paraphernalia house, which he bought from Jim Henson 's daughter, Lisa. "I He added that when his " Muppets " co-star Amy Adams heard Jason Segel: Muppets Are Not Puppets Over the years other popular

  2. Meeting Elmo Inside Jim Henson Productions Workshop: ‘Like Pulling Back the Curtain on Oz’

    Mon, 24 Oct 2011

    fleecy fabric and fully formed Muppets frozen in thought are on the stands. It’s Jim Henson productions workshop in Queens and aahing over the colorful puppets and charmed by a 15-inch Baltimore. He starting sewing puppets at a young age. His parents shelves for his collection of 80 muppets . He described being

  3. Elmo Puppeteer Kevin Clash Talks About Early Struggles, Making Amends With Daughter

    Mon, 24 Oct 2011

    Clash's early obsession with puppets . "I have Peter Pan syndrome and Clash ended up making 80 puppets . At first kids teased him famous. "'You sleep with your puppets , you play with dolls,' you the flame that Muppet creator Jim Henson sparked on "Sesame Street

  4. Bert and Ernie Do Not Have Sexual Orientation, Says 'Sesame Street'

    Thu, 11 Aug 2011

    question intriguing fans of muppets Bert and Ernie. Today as most Sesame Street Muppets do), they remain puppets , and do not have a developed 40 years ago by Jim Henson , the creator of Sesame ducks. For a couple of puppets geared toward preschoolers pronouncement by writing, " Muppets do not have sexual orientation

  5. Online Petition Urges Bert and Ernie to Wed on 'Sesame Street'

    Wed, 10 Aug 2011

    Ernie. That's right – the muppets . Chicago resident Lair characteristics...they remain puppets , and do not have a sexual developed 40 years ago by Jim Henson , the creator of Sesame Street rubber ducks. For a couple of puppets geared toward preschoolers are not straight, they are puppets ...they do not exist below

  6. Exhibit in NYC Explores the Man Behind the Muppets

    Wed, 13 Jul 2011

    in New York say: Jim Henson . The master puppeteer archivist for The Jim Henson Company and curator of " Jim Henson 's Fantastic World performances out of puppets ," Falk said her stint in "The Muppets Take Manhattan

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  1. Exhibit in NYC Explores the Man Behind the Muppets

    Wed, 13 Jul 2011

    in New York say: Jim Henson . The master puppeteer archivist for The Jim Henson Company and curator of " Jim Henson 's Fantastic World performances out of puppets ," Falk said her stint in "The Muppets Take Manhattan

  2. Exhibit in NYC Explores the Man Behind the Muppets

    Wed, 13 Jul 2011

    in New York say: Jim Henson . The master puppeteer archivist for The Jim Henson Company and curator of " Jim Henson 's Fantastic World performances out of puppets ," Falk said her stint in "The Muppets Take Manhattan

  3. Mick Jagger Discusses SuperHeavy Collaboration

    Wed, 6 Jul 2011

    it go on? The unknowable? Isn't there an unknown section?" Jagger joked during a preview event last week at Jim Henson Studios , where the group recorded some of their eclectic music. Stewart called the collaboration wide-ranging. The recording

  4. Wild Puppets Take Over the Philadelphia Zoo in 'X-Tink-Shun'

    Wed, 4 May 2011

    endangered species. The exhibit, which stars a cast of puppets with a purpose, runs through October 31, 2011. The "tail" of the exhibit is told by a cast of puppets created by the Jim Henson Company. Their goal is to bring about the x

  5. Lady Antebellum, Arcade Fire Win Top Awards at Grammys

    Fri, 11 Feb 2011

    Cee Lo Green. On stage, they sang his Grammy-nominated hit record "F--- You." They were joined by Jim Henson Company Puppets . Green was decked out in a costume made of peacock feathers while Paltrow was dressed in a black jumpsuit

  6. Comics Stripped: Learning Sex From Cartoons

    Thu, 13 Jan 2011

    job, developing toys like Cabbage Patch kids and My Little Pony. He was personally recruited by Jim Henson to be creative director of the Muppets and later went on to be vice-president manager. He also worked for family-friendly Disney

  7. Muppets in Mourning: 'Sesame Street' Developer Dies at 84

    Tue, 5 Oct 2010

    Oscar the Grouch, Big Bird and their fellow "Sesame Street" characters have taught generations of children important lessons like how to count, but the science behind why you love them belongs to one man: Gerald Lesser. Dr. Gerald Lesser, the man responsible for molding the personalities of "Sesame

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  1. When Jason Segel and Muppets Combine

    Fri, 4 Nov 2011

    but it Back in the eighties Muppets even turned up on the occasional 1999. Less than successful Muppets in states. Even the Internet in the house he bought from Jim Henson 's daughter Lisa. This is with a screening worth of puppets and look at the he's avidly opinions not what it's what the Muppets have survived on for a long

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    Created by the great Jim Henson back in 1955. The Muppets said an impeccable standard for clever gently subversive heavily comedy. -- letters numbers and values and Sesame Street put -- manic performances for team he's the Muppets show. Starring in six pun filled -- only features starting with the Muppet movie but it -- Back in the eighties Muppets even turned up on the occasional news program.
    thinking in those characters live on in the house he bought from Jim Henson's daughter Lisa.
  2. A Muppet of a Man

    Tue, 15 Nov 2011

    the star in the writer of the Muppets Jason here with us tonight this lesson I grew up with the Muppets . And I've seen all the Muppet that that we grew up with that Jim Henson and Frank Oz in the rest the win mister Henson died in the Muppets sort of changed hands handed

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    beginning we're happy to have the star in the writer of the Muppets Jason -- here with us tonight Jason thanks for being with things remains very exciting I saw this this lesson I grew up with the Muppets . And I've seen all the Muppet movies and a lot of them come very close to hitting that a -- mark but this one I think nails at the close. Thanks yet you know I just want until Harken back to those late seventies early eighties -- films that we grew up with in the Muppet Show. And and do justice to the legacy that that we grew up with that Jim Henson and Frank Oz in the rest the puppeteers created and I think we've done and we're very conscious of trying to do that. -- and I think we should your try to appeal not only to our generations but also to younger generations older generations as well. Did you have any kind of temptation -- remake the -- altogether -- and I think that was sort of the point of why we wanted to make this film is. You know win win mister Henson died in the Muppets sort of changed hands -- handed -- finally in the hands of Disney but. There wasn't a singular vision -- kind of guiding where they were going their trajectory and seem like someone -- Steffan. And -- in this case may be an outsider who just -- of the Muppets from when they grew up. And and try to use that tone as as the guideline for what we -- who's your
  3. Man Celebrates 26 Years Voicing Elmo

    Tue, 25 Oct 2011

    delves into early obsession with puppets you sowed. Eighty puppets . Yeah I will mom I'm had within kids tease you about which puppets you play with balls and then stands tall in the pantheon of Jim Henson 's creation. You open has

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    phenomenon. At only eighteen inches almost stands tall in the pantheon of Jim Henson's -- creation. You open has always have and I are lying eight -- for me. -- how He and Kevin maintains the
  4. Behind the Face of Elmo

    Tue, 25 Oct 2011

    being It delves into cabins early obsession with puppets you so. puppets . Yeah I mom I'm had a so when the singer sewing eighteen inches almost stands tall in the pantheon of Jim Henson 's creation. You know and has all these different

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    At only eighteen inches almost stands tall in the pantheon of Jim Henson's -- creation. You know and has all these different -- excellence -- Now. Kevin maintains the Henson legacy and that's what's expected
  5. Lady Gaga Hatches at Grammy Awards

    Mon, 14 Feb 2011

    moments was a colorful comic and auction featuring Jim Henson 's Muppets and outrageously clad. Philo Green from forming version of sit and think what if cultural and the Muppets . Backing him up. I was a strange spending live

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Photos

  1. PHOTO: Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer attend the 2011 Point Honor Los Angeles Gala Hosted By Joel McHale at Jim Henson Studios, Sept. 24, 2011 in Hollywood, California.
  2. Vince Vaughn Wants To Keep Gay Joke In Movie Vince Vaughn attend the 'We Are The World 25 Years for Haiti' recording session held at Jim Henson Studios on Feb. 1, 2010 in Hollywood, California.

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