In this edition:
• A pair of aces
• Room for growth
• Still a-maze-ing
• Wheel of misfortune
• The road less traveled
“Today, Jim Henson’s dark fairytale is seen as a classic of 80s high camp. But on release, it bombed.”
“He once describe Miss Piggy to me as having come from a litter of 17 pigs, but her mother only had 16 nipples. And if you don’t know that about her, I don’t know that you can really express who she is.”
Steven Whitmire, who was was let go after playing Kermit for nearly three decades, has fired back at Disney.
Twenty-five years after Jim Henson’s death, a glimpse of the man who kept his most iconic puppet singing: Steve Whitmire.
Twenty-five years after Jim Henson’s death, a glimpse of the man who kept his most iconic puppet singing: Steve Whitmire.
“He viewed money as energy, the energy that makes concrete things happen out of worthy ideas.”
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