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EXCLUSIVE: The Jim Henson Company has brought on Bryan O’Connell as Vice President of Children’s Television. Most recently serving as Director of Development at Disney Jr., to cap off a 10 ...
For David Bowie and Muppet fans, an event that pairs both is coming your way. “Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: In Concert” is an event that "transports fans to the Goblin City with an exciting ...
The university announced this week that the "international superstar" will be the one to inspire graduates in honor of the campus' long history with Muppets creator Jim Henson, a 1960 University ...
For David Bowie and Muppet fans, an event that pairs both is coming your way. “Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: In Concert” is an event that "transports fans to the Goblin City with an exciting ...
It's been 11 years since we met "Evil Kermit." In the film, the Muppets are tricked into taking their show on the road by a European Kermit lookalike named Constantine. Constantine has Kermit take the ...
The University of Maryland says it is honoring Jim Henson, an alumnus, with its choice of commencement speaker. Some students think it is avoiding “real issues.” By Callie Holtermann Andrew ...
Kohen in 1989. Archives of American Art Americans last year sent more than two billion Christmas cards, and a great many bore a familiar sentiment printed in an overseas factory and boxed for mass ...
The “Rainbow Connection” singer will offer advice to graduating Terps on May 21, in honor of his late “Muppets” creator Jim Henson, who is an alumnus of the college. Kermit the Frog is ...
The iconic green frog, and the rest of the Muppets, were created by Jim Henson, who graduated from UMD in 1960. According to the university, Kermit is an environmental advocate, a Peabody Award ...
The Muppets are 50. The American History Museum will exhibit Jim Henson's first puppets and such classics as Kermit the Frog. Last year, Cheryl Henson, Henson's daughter and a Muppet designer ...
The lovable puppet’s appearance “honors the long history between UMD and Muppets creator Jim Henson,” the university's announcement reads Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.