“My hope is still to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.” –Jim Henson T his M onth in H istory
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September 24, 2017, would mark the 81st birthday of Jim Henson, a man who reinvented a 3,000-year-old art form and made the world fall in love with a singing frog. By replacing stiff wood with flexible rubber and developing precise hand motions and movements to convey emotion, Henson created a cast of characters he called The Muppets. Though he faced roadblocks on his journey to bring The Muppets to the world — including studios that claimed the characters would only appeal to children and writers who refused to “write for felt” — Henson persevered. A British TV station eventually picked up “The Muppet Show,” and the series went on to win four Primetime Emmys. While the general public still knows Henson best for his zany, beloved Muppets, the celebrated storyteller was involved in many groundbreaking TV shows and movies. Other fantastical productions beneath the Henson banner include the eerie and magical cult
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