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...once lowly porker is becoming a popular mascot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Getting High on the Hog | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

When The Muppet Show began, Miss Piggy was a nobody, a mere member of the porker chorus. In less than three years, by a dazzling combination of talent, beauty and physical violence?when batting her eyelashes doesn't bring surrender, she lashes out with a karate chop?she has become a star. Her finest moments now may be when she plays the ingenue role in the show's arrestingly torpid "Pigs in Space" series, a send-up that is funny because it assumes, correctly, that the viewer is very bored by astronauts. Aboard the spaceship Swinetrek, she is every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Those Marvelous Muppets | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...glass roof, the visitor is greeted by two huge sculptured mimes and two living counterparts who bow a welcome. Next comes a "Renaissance Midway," lined with circus wagons exhibiting such Krofftian put-ons as the Fat Lady, who turns out to be a performer garbed as a super-porker, and the Tattooed Lady, who is costumed as the world's only sexy rhino. Melody pours from a marvel designed by one Nick O'Lodeon, which features 29 instruments. A belly dancer gyrates, jugglers toss balls, and minstrels stroll. On the next level is a nonstop vaudeville show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Fantasia in a Gulch | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

...good fellow that he was--got suckered and succored by every imaginable self-interest group (while milking them for everything he could get). Crumb never closed the cat's case, though he did fantasize a finally played-out Fritz, shtupping yet another bitch, swigging one last Ripple with a porker named Heinz--and slowly dying of his own terrific life-style...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Fritz Don't Profess Any Graces | 5/12/1972 | See Source »

Futz loves his pig. That isn't graffiti; it's a plot. Futz is an Appalachian farmer whose great pleasure in life is making love to a porker named Amanda. Naturally, his narrow-minded neighbors are upset. The village slut plots revenge on Farmer Futz after he invites Amanda along on a tryst. She persuades a local homicidal maniac to claim that he killed a village girl only after seeing Futz and Amanda in the throes of passion. That's grounds right there for the sheriff to grab Futz and toss him into jail, where the indignant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Passion in the Pigsty | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

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