Here’s what has us salivating this week:
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Whatnotmania!
Did you see the whole “Muppets take over The Today Show” thing on NBC last week? That was pretty cool… Ann Curry has never looked better. It was all done to promote the Muppet Whatnot Workshop at FAO Schwartz… which has proven so popular that they’ve suspended new orders for Whatnots on the FAO website until February 2009. February! No doubt they got a huge promotional boost from being mentioned here on Tough Pigs.
Kermit interviewed in Time Out New York
Kermit did a nifty interview with the NYC magazine this week. Check it out.
Steve and Dave in Atlanta
Steve Whitmire and Dave Goelz appeared at the Atlanta History Center recently to host some Muppety screenings. They brought along their friends Kermit, Rizzo, and Gonzo too. The Loose Toon blog has a nice report with some video clips.
Ricky Gervais to appear on Sesame Street
Various sources reported this week that Ricky Gervais has been asked to appear in the next new season of Sesame Street. No word yet on what he’ll be teaching, which characters he’ll be working with, or whether he’ll be allowed to go wildly off-script.
Kermit Chaplin gets a bath Tough Pigs’ close personal friend David S noticed this week that the Kermit-as-Charlie-Chaplin statue has been removed from its perch at the gate of the Jim Henson Studio (the complex was originally the studio for United Artists, founded by Chaplin). Further investigation has revealed that it’s just being cleaned, and it will return soon.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinnochio
Guillermo del Toro, director of Pan’s Labyrinth and two Hellboy movies, has announced plans to make a puppety feature film version of Pinnochio, based on the book adaptation by Gris Grimly, and he wants the Henson Company involved. Presumably this would be a bit darker, more dramatic, and capital-F Freakier than the Pinnochio movie the Creature Shop worked on in the 1990s, which starred Home Improvement‘s Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
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