Word: janes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certainty that now seem almost eerie: a nearby NBC station hired Pierre and friends to help out on a cartoon show. By this time Henson was attending the University of Maryland, where he found a course in puppeteering. One of his fellow students was a New York girl named Jane Nebel, and when Henson's TV job expanded to include an afternoon variety show, she signed on to help. By the end of the semester, they had two five-minute nighttime spots. Their star puppet was a baldheaded, popeyed fellow named Sam. He didn't talk...
...Rolls-Royce to his college graduation, but he wasn't sure he wanted to remain a puppetmaster. He wandered off to Europe for several months, and there he met people who practiced puppeteering as an art. He returned to Washington certain of his direction. He and Jane were married a few months later, and both the marriage and the partnership prospered...
...Jane Henson dropped out of full-time Muppeting to raise their children (all five of whom have worked on The Muppet Show). She says she reached her limit as a puppeteer when the Muppets began to talk. She still works from time to time on Sesame Street, voicelessly...
...casino, and driving fast in a Kermit-green Lotus through the English countryside. Although Jim is away from the family home in Bedford, N.Y.. for almost six months of each year, the Henson marriage seems to be anything but the disposable show business model. Jim and Jane possess powerful internal gyroscopes, which have not importantly changed direction in 20 years...
MOMENT BY MOMENT Directed and Written by Jane Wagner...