Happy Birthday Jim Henson.

[puppetmaker]

Today would have been Jim Henson's 70th birthday.

So in honor of that, tell me your favorite moment of Muppets or Henson's work in general.

I am grateful that I got to meet Jim Henson

Comments

[bevlovesbooks.livejournal.com]

I wish I had gotten to meet him. My favorite Muppet memory was at D*Con a few years ago. Ken Plume had gotten his hands on some old footage, and we aired it in the YA Lit room. At the end, it has a snippet from Jim's funeral where the puppeteers and their Muppets sing "Rainbow Connection." There was not a dry eye in the house. We passed around a roll of toilet paper.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

Yep. I was there. It wasn't a funeral but a memorial service. They gave out butterfly puppets to everyone. I gave mine to a kid who came in late with her mommy. She was clutching a kermit puppet and I though she needed it more than I.