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The last Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind actress, Caren Marsh Doll, celebrates her 106th birthday today after nearly perishing in a plane crash over 75 years ago. 05:00, Sun, Apr 6 ...
As a child, Riley LeBon was terrified of Count von Count on “Sesame Street.” Last week, the now-third-year University of Virginia student helped puppeteer the numbers-obsessed vampire with Muppet ...
Sesame Street puppeteer Matt Vogel, who gives life to Count von Count and Big Bird ... As a kid, I was inspired by Jim Henson, “Sesame Street” and “The Muppet Show” to build my own puppets. I did ...
Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg pointed to Ashanti, linking the witch hat to her role in The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz. In her introduction, The Ant said: “That’s the reason I’m here: To fight for my ...
Is there nothing the Muppets can’t do? In 2005, The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz hit television with the ... with the Wicked Witch of the West (Miss Piggy) with violence. Sure, the film didn ...
In 1981, Oscar the Grouch makes a brief cameo in The Great Muppet Caper and characters such as Herry, Count von Count, Cookie Monster, and Bert and Ernie can be spotted during the wedding of ...
“Wicked,” as you likely know, is a prequel to the original “The Wizard of Oz” movie, which itself is based on L. Frank Baum’s expansive children’s book series. If you want to learn ...
“Wicked,” as you likely know, is a prequel to the original “The Wizard of Oz” movie, which itself is based on L. Frank Baum’s expansive children’s book series. If you want to learn more about ...
In the 1978 movie musical The Wiz, Diana Ross played Dorothy, while Ashanti also put a new spin on the character in the oft-forgotten TV special The Muppets’ Wizard Of Oz.
But its true origins, of course, are in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum’s deathless fantasy classic, which introduces both the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda, the Good Witch of ...
Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, we’re following that yellow-brick road back to Oz with the 1978 cult-classic musical The Wiz.