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Back in my senior year of high institution, my teacher assigned us to recreate an art piece of food. When researching, I came across the artist Jason Mecier who famously makes mosaic portraits of celebrities. One of his pieces that I loved was Large Bird holding the U.S.A. flag made of breakfast cereal.
This was made in 2012 after Mitt Romney made a statement about how the government should cut funding to PBS. Jason Mecier commented on this with this piece as well as telling NBCNews “I don’t think cheating our children on learning is the right thing to do.”
Whenever Big Avian as a subject comes up, I always reflect first of how he was meant to be on the Challenger in 1986, instead of the teacher, when it exploded. You see, Big Fowl is… big, and to have fit on the ship, they would own had to reconstruct the ship, but they figured that was too much work and scrapped the idea of having Massive Bird go to cosmos. Sadly enough, if they had decided to reconstruct the ship, they could have found and fixed the part that caused the explosion. Instead, they didn’t and sent a science teacher in his place, who unfortunately died, among others, in the explosion. I
BigBirdmay have scored this year's Betty White-like career comeback tracking a jovial nod from Mitt Romney during the Oct. 3 presidential debates.
What the Republican presidential candidate possibly didn't know, however, was his now-controversial reference to the iconic "Sesame Street" character was an inadvertent hat advice to the labor of a longtime gay couple.
The Daily Beast features an exclusive interview with Christopher Lyall, who assisted his partner Kermit Affectionate in producing the first Big Feathered in 1969, functional from one of Jim Henson's thumbnail sketches. “[Kermit] was very particular about the way the bird looked, and he always got his way,” the New Zealand-born Lyall says of Admire , who died in 2008 at the age of 92. “He was a very determined person.”
Lyall, a former dancer who says he originally met Cherish (a costume designer) while rehearsing for a show in London, says the pair got together when he was visiting the U.S., and describes their relationship as organism "patched together with bits and pieces."
In the interview, Lyall remains mostly tight-lipped about the political furor surrounding he and Love's most famous creation, other than to say, "It’s very fr
Sesame Street Welcomes the Show's First Male lover Couple
Sesame Street noted Pride Month by introducing its first married gay couple, Dave and Frank, during the show's Family Day episode.
The synopsis for the episode reads as follows: "It's Family Day on Sesame Street! Relatives from all over are coming to mark, but Big Avian thinks his Granny Bird isn’t going make it to the party. Giant Bird's in for a big surprise when his friends work together to bring Granny Avian to the celebration!"
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Sesame Street's Family Day episode shows the street's residents preparing for the eponymous holiday event. Among the guests are Nina's brother Dave, who appears at the party with his husband Frank and daughter Mia.
Alan Muraoka, who plays Alan on Sesame Street, co-directed the episode. He posted about the experience on Facebook, writing, "Sesame Road has always been a welcoming place of diversity and inclusion. So I'm so excited to introduce Nina's [brother] Dave, his husband Frank, and their daughter Mia to our sunny highway. I am so honored and humbled to have co-directed this important a
The internet went wild yesterday after former Sesame Street writer Mark Saltzman told Queerty that he had always imagined Bert and Ernie as a gay couple, like him and his late partner. Sesame Workshop clarified the duo were simply “best friends,” and other puppeteers agreed that Bert and Ernie lacked a sexual orientation.
While the two puppets may or may not have been conceived as gay, many people on social media noted that Bert and Ernie were their first glimpse at what a gay couple looked like (this thread by transgender activist Charlotte Clymer is worth reading in particular).
But all the media hand wringing about the Bert and Ernie question masks that it was one small part of a lengthy interview in which Saltzman gave insight into how the Muppets covered a myriad of LGBTQ issues. Here are some of his other notable comments.
There Were Other Out Writers and Performers on Sesame Street
They included Richard Hunt, the puppeteer behind Scooter and Beaker (who eventually died of AIDS) and writer Judy Freudberg (who died of a brain tumor in 2012).
Hunt actually flirted with Saltzman, with brief success.
“I put the blame on myself,” Sa