News about Jim Henson

People were made to laugh on Saturday Night Live, but a new film would focus on the drama that inspired the late night staple in the 1970s. Jason Reitman, 46, who has already cast Ella Hunt to play the late Gilda Radner, Rebecca Fairn as Laraine Newman, and Kim Matula as Jane Curtin, has now decided which actors will play the male characters in The Not-Ready-for-Primetime Players. Gabriel LaBelle, 21, best known for his role as Sammy, a budding filmmaker in Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmen, will play creator and producer Lorne Michaels.

Harriet Arkell of MailOnline Travel visited Washington, D.C., with her two teenage boys. The 'teenagers' eyes welled up as they arrived in the city.' And the apprehensions never faded. Harriet explores the many highlights of their stay, from world-class museums to a stay at the opulent Waldorf Astoria.

According to The New York Times, puppet wrangler Lara MacLean joined the Sesame Workshop in 2000 and has been making Cookie Monster's treats since.

At Pinewood Studios in October 2020, veteran model-maker Christine Overs (inset), 74, went from a beach scene to a concrete floor when part of the set was discontinued during construction of the blockbuster, starring Halle Bailey (Pictured right and left in the film). Ms Overs, a beach and snow shooter, claims that her left wrist injury has ended her career, which necessitates precise finger movements, because she now struggles to do up buttons and zips, or lace shoes. The 'highly coveted' artist has worked on GoldenEye, Aliens, Dune, and Superman IV's sets, as well as Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

Ulitsa Sezam appeared on television in 1996, despite years of cultural ambiguities and financial hardship. Natasha Lance Rogoff's latest book tells the thrilling tale of the show's demise, which lasted until 2010, "Putin's people" at Russia's television networks took it off air. The show's offices were searched by Russian soldiers who confiscated scripts, set designs, and even a life-size Elmo puppet (left) that was the office mascot a year before it aired. Ulitsa Sezam featured domestic characters that made Russia famous, such as the nine-foot blue tree spirit Zeliboba and the pink and orange monsters Businka and Kubik (seen top right). In a further sign of the febrile, uncertain post-Communist atmosphere that Ms Rogoff was working in, several heads of Russian television who she was collaborating with were assassinated before the show had even aired