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...Kermit. No Bert and Ernie. Sam the Nixonian eagle and Grover, with his perpetually pubescent voice, are elsewhere. This movie is serious: Jim Henson's foray into the art, dammit, of puppetry. With the help of Star Wars Producer Gary Kurtz, Faeries Artist Brian Froud, fellow Muppeteer Frank Oz and $26 million, Henson has devised a luxuriantly original fantasy world as dark as the magic crystal totem at its center. The setting is "another world, another time, in the Age of Wonder." A war between the benevolent Mystics (who look like shaggy-dog anteaters) and the evil Skeksis (pustular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Magical, Mystical Muppet Tour | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...same sexual sensitivity they had before the operation. Says he: "They've misinterpreted the response as a great discovery. The response has been there all the time and has been recognized for hundreds of years. It is not due to an anatomical switch that can cause excitement." Dr. Kermit Krantz, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, believes that lovers aiming for the so-called G spot in fact are hitting a more general nerve area around the weak sphincter muscle of the vagina and the cavernous tissue of the urethra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: In Search of a Perfect G | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

PATRICK says the fact that Kermit the Frog addressed this year's graduating class at Harvard is an obvious emblem of the times...

Author: By Charles R. Burress, | Title: The Problem With Us | 7/6/1982 | See Source »

...IBIS, NOT KERMIT, for Lisa A. Henson, To the 'Poon she'll add humor and, we hope, thensum. Robin Schmidt and Lou Armistead will find great so-lace, When construction begins on University Place. Deane Lord and Al Alcorn strong stories will find, Freeing their Gazette from its once-a-week bind. And as for Sally Z., the tenant's best friend, We can't grant her wish and let rent control end. The good Reverend Gomes (the Configuide's star), May daub local sinners with feathers and tar. We doubt it, though; he's an awfully nice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Christmas Trek | 12/18/1981 | See Source »

...strain to make their Muppets look comfortable; it is not easy being Gonzo. Author Finch devotes a little too much space to the human guests who have appeared on the program. Those singers, movie stars, comedians and classical artists are all well and good, but the book belongs to Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Scooter, Statler and Waldorf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Treasures of Art and Nature | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

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