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...Muppet Mania...
...wisecracking green frog. And the curious truth about this gaunt, bearded, rather ascetic-looking craftsman, as he admits, is that "my nature is not particularly witty." He is funny only with Kermit on his arm, and the same thing seems to be true of Frank Oz and the other Muppet people...
Henson and Nebel began experimenting to see what effects they could get by synchronizing mouth movements with the words of the records they played. They used TV monitors from the start, which allowed them to edit their performances as they went along. The elements that would form the Muppet style were coming together. Only dialogue was missing, and this appeared in primitive form when they signed to do a series of commercials for Wilkins coffee. In the first of these, a happy character asked a grouchy type what he thought of the coffee. The grouch said he had never tried...
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...