Word: muppeteer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three-year-old son Sage wanted to see his old man on the Muppet Show, so Sylvester Stallone, 32, got himself invited, playing a gladiator vs. a Muppet lion. Besides, it was a way to live out his own childhood fantasy. "Ever since I was eight, I've wanted to be a gladiator," says the hero of Rocky. "Usually, when I have a fantasy, I make a movie. This saved me from 22 weeks of moviemaking." Probably a good thing, considering Stallone's last two films, F.I.S.T. and Paradise Alley...
...Muppet Mania...
Thanks for telling me I'm not the only adult who ignores everything else to watch The Muppet Show. J.S. Price Arlington Heights...
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...
Isaac Bashevis Singer, the celebrated one-man band of Yiddish literature, has not yet appeared as a guest star on The Muppet Show, and such folderol may, indeed, have no part in his plans. But some of his remarks last week after he accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm suggest that, were he to do so, he and Muppetmaster Jim Henson might have a fruitful conversation as they waited for the cameras to be set up. An excerpt...