Word: snuffleupagus
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...monarch of a remote land. This was no sure-shot, cuddly animated feature but a spikier live-action fantasy - essentially an art-house fairy tale - whose special effects were, as co-screenwriter Dave Eggers, marvels, "just people in big suits." Think of the beasties as members of the Snuffleupagus family, with a Catskills tinge...
...designed costumes for renowned ballet choreographer George Balanchine for more than four decades, but it was Kermit Love's contribution to the Sesame Street cast that he is best remembered for. Love helped create the beloved characters Cookie Monster, Snuffleupagus, Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird--complete with molting yellow feathers. Though many believe Jim Henson's Kermit the Frog was named after him, Love maintained that it was merely a coincidence...
...there is something troubling about the willful distortion of a hallmark of American childhood just to get a message across. Cookie Monster may not have been as dynamic as Big Bird or Snuffleupagus, but his calling card’s—these cookies, of course—comic consistency was worth even the questionable influence on viewers’ eating habits...
...boys and girls. Golly, I'm sorry, but I've been so busy out here in Hollywood that I forgot to tell you all about my first feature film, Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird. Lots of our friends on Sesame Street helped me in the picture, and Mr. Snuffleupagus deserves an Oscar nomination for his sniffly farewell scene. I'm sure the other stars like Chevy Chase, John Candy and Sandra Bernhard join me in that sentiment. I think that with those little suggestions I made, the script really works now. I just loved the idea of me moving...