Perhaps he was different as a youngster. The future Muppet master was born in Mississippi in 1936 and spent much of his boyhood in Washington, D.C., where his mother was a homemaker and his father ...

“I just really appreciate puppetry as an art form,” he says. So when Disney handed him the keys to the Muppets franchise after he pitched execs on a reboot, it was a dream come true.

I remain one until this day.’” It’s been more than a decade since Oz has done anything with the Muppets, played a 900-year old Jedi Master, or directed a feature film, but his long run of ...

The new Disney+ documentary “Jim Henson Idea Man” conjures the life and mind of the visionary who created the Muppets and changed not only an art form, but also the parameters of storytelling.

“Jim Henson: Idea Man” threads a difficult needle, celebrating the creative genius of the Muppets mastermind without sidestepping or whitewashing the thornier aspects of his personal ...