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  1. dwmckim

    The JHLC

    If your speech is about how Jim affected media as a whole, one thing i'd mention is how back in the days of the 10 second commercial where it was hard to do much more than a very factual hard sell, Jim found a way to inject humor into the format with the Wilkins Coffee ads (which he later...
  2. dwmckim

    The New Movie: The Muppets

    Aye, but there's the rub. You read the *original* draft - and movies always change between first to final draft and finished edit! Especially in a case like this where the main author is a freelance outsider so you saw the script before it was passed though the people at Disney and Muppets...
  3. dwmckim

    Of Muppets and Merchandise and Photoshop

    I'd even go further. Even when they don't mix different characters from different photo shoots together, they much with things like eye placement etc that end up making the characters look ugly or just "wrong" - look at the vast majority of the photos that are currently in the gallories at...
  4. dwmckim

    The Jim Henson Company Puppets to perform at the 2011 Grammys

    Ah yes, but remember that was in the footloose and fancy-free days of the 70's - well before The Sales. Heck, when Sesame first started, the idea of doing something along the lines of The Muppet Show was still but a gleam in Jim Henson's eye and this was America's greatest exposure to his...
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