Word: muppets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vibrato. He plays a keen, maturing son, but in Friday's performance sometimes found the joks in the play so funny that he could not contain his own smirk. Ethan Golden as the stage manager Francis and as Mrs. Dindon provides timely comic relief, especially as the politician's muppet-like wife. And Richard Brooks as Mr. Dindon is a stern man with a few caricatured features...
...Eliot resident said his favorite character was Ernie because he thought they looked alike, except Staebler didn't have a rubber ducky like the orange muppet...
ARDS is an often fatal form of pneumonia which claimed the life of Muppet originator Jim Henson...
...MARLEYS WERE DEAD." HUH? EBenezer Scrooge (a nicely grave Michael Caine) has two dead partners -- played by Statler and Waldorf, those sour kibitzers from the Muppet Show. Kermit the Frog is Bob Cratchit, Miss Piggy is Mrs. C., Gonzo is Charles Dickens . . . so this must be THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL, the first feature from Jim Henson Productions since the founder's death. Director Brian Henson hasn't his dad's genius for comic detail, and the film often sinks into the brown funk of a wake for the passed master. But when Kermit (now voiced by Steve Whitmire) says...
Dracula. The name conjures a multitude of disparate images. Bela Lugosi. John Carradine. Count Chocula. Innumerable ghouls of the silver screen, and a muppet. Ever since F. W. Murnau's great 1921 silent film, "Nosferatu," Dracula and cinema have evolved together...