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

[zessa]

I love the Dark Crystal. As a kid it hit all the right chords, and I still remember the wonder I got from it.

My mother would walk around imitating the Frank Oz's Skeksis character's whimper...used to freak me out.

I also loved the old school Muppet show when it would re-run on Nickelodeon.

But the Dark Crystal influenced my future taste for fantasy, and let me know as a young kid it was ok to be crazy and imaginative.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

I go and visit the Chamberlin at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta any chance I get. It was a movie that no one in Hollywood "got" at the time but it has influenced so many over time.