Word: muppeteers
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...just an aspiring piglet in the chorus line and her colleague a former tadpole. But even though the amphibian has since made it big in TV and films like The Muppets Take Manhattan, as well as star turns in the toy department, he hasn't forgotten his lily-pond roots. Next month Muppet Creator Jim Henson and more than 200 of Kermit's friends are getting together to toast America's best-known frog on his 30th birthday. Called The Muppets, a Celebration of 30 Years, the one-hour CBS special will feature Fozzie Bear as master of ceremonies...
...hard pressed to find such images in even the most violent of Saturday morning cartoons. Teaching kids to be sociable is our era's priority: It is seven o'clock in the morning, and a nation of restless children sits spellbound before the TV image of an enormous yellow muppet. Watching "Sesame Street", they will learn how to cooperate, how not to hurt others' feelings, how to get along with people who are different from themselves. In the wake of the advances in public health and medicine, fellow classmates, more than the spectre of death, confront children...
...cuddly playmate for a lonely boy but the resurrection of love in a life gone sour. Starman's appearance to Jenny is a double shock: he is both the incarnation and a parody of her lost love. He speaks in the tones of a computerized Muppet and moves in twitches, like a punk robot. But he is innocent and kind, and as alone in the universe as she feels. She can befriend him, teach him, mother him and finally love him-whoever he is, whomever she wants him to be. She can travel with him, as the movie does...
Wauck has also devised simple and effective sets which suggest the fragility of the superficial English society. Although most of the costumes are nattily effective, Gwendolyn's wig makes her look more like a Muppet then a bombshell, and Algernon's disguise as Jack's devilish brother Ernest looks more like a recent arrival from Palm Beach...
...eyed and Jewish, with an attitude problem ("Know what I resent? Just about everything!") and a rather complacent identity crisis ("I very badly want to be someone else without going to the trouble of changing myself). Her boyfriend Marty (Chip Zien) is a kidney specialist who looks like a Muppet rabbi and calls Janie "Monkey." Her father (Stephen Pearlman) is a nice guy with all the charisma of Muzak in a minor key; her mother (Betty Comden) is a danceaholic who can't let go of her baby. Janie knows how to make her mother happy: by phoning...