The Muppets

Sam And Friends borrowed liberally from the catalogues of Stan Freberg and Spike Jones; the characters' skill with snappy wordplay falls somewhere between The Marx Brothers and Mel Brooks; the unsustainable anarchy of The Muppet Show: These debts are frequently acknowledged in Muppet productions, be it in Freberg popping by Sam And Friends to demand credit for the records played on the program, or Muppet Show bookings like alpha Python John Cleese or his predecessors in British silliness, The Goon Show alumni Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan. Read More

This week's episode of The Bachelorette starts off somewhat untraditionally, being that we're filming in Emily's hometown of Charlotte, NC. Read More

For all the carefully crafted illusions that make up the Muppet universe, Jim Henson was never shy about pulling back the curtains on his film and television work. Read More

Jeremy D. Larson does the best Michael McDonald impersonation that I've ever seen. Read More

Joss Whedon 's Avengers heads for a monster foreign bow; Rupert Murdoch 's testimony is a nightmare for the British government and an Ontario morning news channel goes hardcore. Read More

Totalitarian regimes need children: not their participation, but their loyalty. Read More

Sex And Violence and The Muppet Valentine Show through a variation of the Koozebanian Mating Ritual, ramming the two pilots-cum-one-off-specials into each other at full speed—with explosive results. Read More

"Last week I was dancing with Natalia Makarova. Now I'm in a steam room with a lady pig. Read More

When he was 16, Noah Stewart, an American tenor, met legendary soprano Leontyne Price when she was autographing records in a New York store. Read More

And rock 'n' rollers haven't been forgotten by the Florida Film Festival, which has an impressive slate of music-oriented films in this year's lineup, starting with the look into the hearts of Rick Springfield fans in "An Affair of the Heart," the world premiere elevated by the presence of Springfield himself for a Q&A session. Read More