Someone new is moving to Sesame Street! Join us for this three part series that chronicles our journey to find the newest addition to the neighborhood. Part one, today, features the open casting call held in New York City. Part two comes out Wednesday!
Seeing Sonia Manzano as herself and not Maria reminds me of how jarring I found it when I spotted Gordon on an episode of Sex and the City.
Big Business (1988)
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BIG BUSINESS, omg. My sis and I loved this movie as kids. Bette Midler + Lily Tomlin FTW.
Johnny Cash singing “Nasty Dan” on season five of Sesame Street.
my first exposure to Johnny Cash.
Happy 82nd Birthday to James Earl Jones! Mr. Jones, who is almost as handsome as his father, Robert Earl Jones (!), was born 82 years ago today in Arkabutla, Mississippi! This photo was taken on May 29, 1961 by Carl Van Vechten.
Anyone else remember Long Ago and Far Away? That’s how I was first introduced to Mr. Jones.
Today is the 40th Anniversary of Schoolhouse Rock, an American series of educational shorts that aired between cartoons in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
We’ve got Tempest Bledsoe and Bill Cosby on the show tomorrow.
It’s like a mini-episode of Cosby!
[Tune in Jan 4, 12:35pm/11:35c]
way too excited about this now.
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At what point, precisely, does adulthood begin its irreversible forward march? When you’re born? When you lose your virginity? When the government deems you mature enough to drive, drink, vote, smoke, or go off to war? At midnight on your 30th birthday? According to Greta Gerwig, childhood ends the moment you go from constantly wanting to be a grown-up to being horrified that you can’t stop it from happening. “I think the moment you become an adult is when you watch the Olympics and realize that you’ll never be on the gymnastics team,” says the 28-year-old actor from her perch atop a windowsill radiator at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in Soho. “I’ve talked to a lot of girls who’ve had that moment, like, I’m 12 and those girls are 15, and I can’t possibly learn to do that in three years. It’s the awareness that there are things that you won’t achieve based on your age. I think it started for me when I watched Searching for Bobby Fischer, and I was like, I’m never going to be a child chess champion.
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Ever wonder what Aileen Quinn — a.k.a. the girl who played a certain redheaded orphan in 1982’s Annie— has been up to for the past 30 years? Well, we just interviewed her.
(Also, Annie came out 30 years ago. Also, we are all a hundred.)
This is the most important thing on the Internet today.
my childhood!
P.S. I’m typing this on the new Kindle Fire I got for work.
Source: entertainmentweekly
June Foray, the voice of Rocket “Rocky” J. Squirrel, reads.
The Voice Of Rocky The Squirrel Turns 95
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The lack of dates is just my speed. When I was home over the summer I entertained my parents by reading to them from my (copious) childhood diaries. In one from when I was nine, I began: “Let me get one thing straight. Dates mean NOTHING to me! For example, it says today is Jan. 1. BUT IT’S NOT. It’s [some date in spring]. And do I care? NO.”
What a wonderful idea. When I was a kid, I found diaries daunting because there were days I wouldn’t write anything because I didn’t think there were any events worth writing about. Then I would feel guilty about not writing in it every day. So I would just stop writing anything at all.
I even had a Judy Blume diary at one point! I probably wrote in it twice.
I don’t think I can handle reality today. So I give you Gilbert Blythe.
Such a crush I had on this guy.
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Obit of the Day: Muppet Master Jerry Nelson
Lots of Muppets lost their voice today: Count von Count, Emmet Otter, Robin (Kermit’s nephew), Lew Zealand (of “boomerang fish” fame), Sherlock Hemlock, The Amazing Mumford (“A la peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!”), Harry Monster, Camilla the Chicken, and Gobo Fraggle.
Jerry Nelson, who passed away at the age of 78, met Jim Henson in New York City following the 1964 World’s Fair. Henson, who had met Nelson when Henson was performing Sam and Friends at WRC in Washington, D.C. and Nelson was an intern, asked Nelson to send an audition tape. Henson liked what he heard, except for Nelson’s take on Kermit.
Henson hired Nelson to replace Frank Oz as Rowlf the Dog’s right hand on the Jimmy Dean Show. Upon Oz’s return, Henson fired Nelson for lack of work but re-hired him when the Muppets were added to the cast of PBS’ newest educational program, Sesame Street.
Nelson would work with the Muppets from 1969 until his death on August 23, 2012. He retired from the physical aspect of puppeteering in 2004 but continued to voice his Sesame Street Muppets until his death. He was also given an uncredited cameo as the theater announcer in 2011’s film, The Muppets.
Random note: Jerry Nelson had a daughter, Christine, who suffered from cystic fibrosis. She passed away in 1982 at the age of 21. Jim Henson gave her a speaking role in The Great Muppet Caper, “Girl in Park,” which allowed her to join the Screen Actors’ Guild.
Sources: avclub.com, IMDB.com, Wikipedia.org
Images:
All characters copyright of the Jim Henson Company and Disney.
Count von Count - courtesy cnet.com
Lew Zealand - courtesy muppet.wikia.com
Emmet Otter - courtesy brianmastroianni.com
Robin the Frog - courtesy muppet.wikia.com
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Don’t got ‘em!
A theory of place in literature derived from Parks and Recreation? Why, Ploughshares blog, you’re too kind.
George Takei responds to “traditional” marriage fans.
OHSNAP, George Takei. This is the best.
(Also: What’s up with the all hate,...
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We’ve got Tempest Bledsoe and Bill Cosby on the show tomorrow.
It’s like a mini-episode of Cosby!
[Tune in Jan 4, 12:35pm/11:35c]
way too excited about this now.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/8332962c001fcbe5bdde374d910e642b/tumblr_mevjbryCJw1qg0wyeo1_1280.jpg)
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The Scribble Diary
The lack of dates is just my speed. When I was home over the summer I entertained my parents by reading to them from my (copious) childhood diaries. In one from when I was nine, I began: “Let me get one thing straight. Dates mean NOTHING to me! For example, it says today is Jan. 1. BUT IT’S NOT. It’s [some date in spring]. And do I care? NO.”
What a wonderful idea. When I was a kid, I found diaries daunting because there were days I wouldn’t write anything because I didn’t think there were any events worth writing about. Then I would feel guilty about not writing in it every day. So I would just stop writing anything at all.
I even had a Judy Blume diary at one point! I probably wrote in it twice.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mak14vIsAF1qz7gs7o1_1280.png)
