Ron Howard's Disney+ documentary about Jim Henson, which features interviews with his family and close associates, is an admiring but unvarnished look at the puppet innovator.
All hail Jim Henson, now and forever. Puppeteer, Muppeteer, maker of worlds. No one apart from Walt Disney has created so many significant characters with so far a reach. At its height, 'The Muppet Show' had a global audience of 235 million; generations of children have been raised on Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Elmo, Oscar, Bert, Ernie and, of course, Kermit, and if any of those names need explanation, you must have led a very sheltered life.
Yet there's too much testimony from his closest associates to believe him anything but a great boss, an open collaborator, a man who made art for the right reasons and a loving, if often absent, family man. 'Jim created out of innocence,' says Frank Oz, the Piggy to his Kermit, the Bert to his Ernie, who estimates that they spent half their time off-script. 'He was so internal and quiet that his inner life must have been sparkling.
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