Another 50th getting overshadowed.

[Ponine]

I was working at the DLR when Jim Henson passed away. I remember how profoundly it affected those of us who were told in the locker room.
I remember the day of his memorial, and how much many of us wished we could have been there. It was a sad day. And not jsut because we knew that Disney had been trying to get Jim on board. Just in general.

Here's an excerpt fron and Interview w/Jim Henson (From Muppet Central)

The first Kermit was made out of your mother's coat. Would you say that it was just an accident that the coat was green and that maybe if the coat had been purple that Kermit would not have evolved into a frog?

HENSON: That's quite likely actually. Yeah, the first Kermit was not even a clean green- it's sort of more a turquoise - sort of a milky turquoise.

Yeah, I saw him at the exhibit. He looked a little faded.

HENSON: Yeah, well, no, he's not faded; that was the color he was.

That was his real color?

HENSON: Sure, but you see back in those days you may have read somewhere, but I didn't call him a frog.

Right, he was just Kermit the thing.

HENSON: Yeah, all the characters in those days were abstract because that was part of the principle that I was working under, that you wanted abstract things.