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Geoffrey Rush Talks Stalled Groucho Marx Project, Shinya Tsukamoto’s Vietnam War Film
Geoffrey Rush is at the Taormina Film Festival to receive a Taormina Excellence Award as well as present his new thriller ...
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2025 Oscar Craft Shortlists: The Big Winners Are ‘Wicked,’ ‘Emilia Pérez,’ ‘Dune: Part 2,’ ‘Gladiator II,’ ‘Alien: Romulus’
His carefully manicured 19th-century hairdos and facial hair devolve into full body work from prosthetic & makeup FX designer David White. Jon M. Chu’s “Wicked” is a frontrunner, with Oscar ...
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Caroll Spinney, Big Bird's Alter Ego on 'Sesame Street,' Is Dead at 85
When Big Bird and Oscar occasionally performed together — bird singing ABCs, grouch fulminating — Spinney operated one puppet while an understudy handled the other, using a vocal recording by ...
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Ranking Every Muppets Christmas Special and Movie
A shame, since he was a marvel of a full-body Muppet with frighteningly expressive ... that brings a lot to the table, as we see Oscar the Grouch pal around with Rizzo, Animal become infatuated ...
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Guillermo del Toro Walks Us Through the Oscar-Worthy Crafts of ‘Pinocchio’
But the exposure from del Toro’s masterful version of Carlo Collodi’s fable — which the Oscar-winning director ... by following the puppets with the camera and lighting the way he would ...
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Move Over, Oscar The Grouch! Animal Control Discovers Raccoon Family In Trash Can.
“I understand that you want to stay in there forever because you get free food,” Brad tells her politely as he slips a snare pole around her body. “But te problem is, you’re too close to people, and ...
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A Deeper Look at Jim Henson, the Man Behind the Muppets, and His Unbridled Innovations
Jim Henson’s sketch for Oscar the Grouch, 1969 ... created the Saturday-morning TV sensation Fraggle Rock in the mid-’80s, he had actors in full-body puppet suits complete with animatronic heads, ...
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15 Secrets of Sesame Street Puppeteers
The Sesame characters—Big Bird, Elmo, Oscar ... Sesame Street puppets can perform the same tasks. Sesame Street utilizes three major varieties of character. There’s the full-body puppet ...
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Legacy of Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch will live on
Right before Big Bird's segment, Rogers tried on a full-size, giraffe puppet and told the audience ... he also was the puppeteer and soul behind Oscar the Grouch. Contrary to popular belief ...
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Why we need Mister Rogers, Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch now more than ever
Right before Big Bird’s segment, Rogers tried on a full-size, giraffe puppet and told the audience ... he also was the puppeteer and soul behind Oscar the Grouch. Contrary to popular belief ...
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Caroll Spinney, the Sesame Street puppeteer behind Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, dies at age 85
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Caroll Spinney, who gave Big Bird his warmth and Oscar the Grouch his growl for nearly ... Then the giant yellow bird body was placed over him. He held his right arm aloft ...