Word: muppet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Atlantic is making a strong bid with Debbie Gibson, 17. She may sing like a Muppet baby, but her first album has already fostered four Top Five singles. Capitol counters with Tracie Spencer, 12, whose first album came out last month, while A&M has Shanice Wilson, 15, who landed her record contract by winning a talent contest. Even Tracy Chapman, 24, a singer-songwriter out of Boston, sounds like a flashback. Her warmly praised debut album resounds with high purpose, in marked contrast to the growing legions of pube rockers, but to anyone who actually made it through...
...grownups need to hold hands to cross the street?" Big Bird wondered. Love was in bloom on Sesame Street, and last week, despite the ominous date -- Friday the 13th -- Luis (Emilio Delgado) and Maria (Sonia Manzano) were married in a ceremony attended by all their friends, both human and Muppet. "It's a simple message we're dealing with," said Lisa Simon, one of the show's producers. "You become a family by forming bonds. That's what love is." However, there is a touch of dissonance. In his trash can, Oscar the Grouch grumbled that the whole affair...
Time and again, Andy's kitsch -- "collectibles" was Sotheby's more tactful label -- fetched upscale prices. A Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog beach towel and other Muppet memorabilia went for $1,760. A Fred Flintstone quartz watch, still bearing its original Bloomingdale's price tag of $20, and two other cheap cartoon watches sold for $2,640. "It's not the article, it's who it belonged to," explained Steve Taenaka, a hair stylist who bid $1,000 for a Mickey Mouse watch and lost. He settled for the auction's six-volume catalog, a relative bargain...
Children's TV, of course, is not an unredeemed junk pile. PBS and cable offer much quality fare. Most of the networks' Saturday-morning shows are gently inoffensive (The Smurfs, Jim Henson's Muppet Babies) and occasionally adventurous (Pee-wee's Playhouse). Some of the wit and imagination of pre-TV animation have even resurfaced this season in CBS's Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, from Filmmaker Ralph Bakshi...
...most part, Prascak maintains Cocteau's scene structure and characters. His major switch is to replace a talking horse with a small Oscar the Grouch figure, the same Muppet that starred in The Dream Play. This horse-turned-Muppet opens the play with cryptic messages that provide Orpheus with poetic inspiration. It is helpful to keep in mind that this--like much of what else is odd in the production--is weird thanks to Cocteau, not Prascak...