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Bernie Brillstein the Yiddish Yodeler. Bernie Brillstein, or course, was in real life Jim Henson's agent. You wanna talk weirder than the Muppets? There's only one guest star IMO who's palpably crazier than they are: the father of British absurdist comedy, Spike Milligan. He was also a...

Hmm, all those you mention keeping in touch with have screen names here, with the exception of Mike Petersen and Martin Baker. Unless they do and we just don't know it? David "Gorgon Heap" Ebersole

Small point of clarification: did you lose touch with Tims McElcheran and Gosley, or still keep in touch with them? It's unclear b/c of the punctuation. Thanks. Btw, you're doing great with this thread. David "Gorgon Heap" Ebersole

No, I meant my last question. This last question of mine can be answered with a simple 'no', or a 'yes' followed by some names. I struck my previous question about the late B.P. Nichol when I found the answer elsewhere. David "Gorgon Heap" Ebersole

I'm striking my last question- somebody already updated Beep's IMDb page. So I'll replace it with another, simpler question: Do you still keep in touch with any of your FR cohorts? David "Gorgon Heap" Ebersole

See that's what I was getting at, but thinking it over I was having a tough time pinpointing the similarities in personality. Maybe the blustering and pomposity? David "Gorgon Heap" Ebersole

Addendum: reason I'm asking is b/c I wanted to update Beep's IMDb page, which doesn't list his death at all. Cause and date (or at least year- from the info on your site it looks like either '88 or '89) is what I'm trying to find out. David "Gorgon Heap" Ebersole

Thanks much Terry. I think I forgot to mention this earlier, but incidentally Jerry Juhl, Carol Bolt, B.P. Nichol and Bob Sandler were my favorite FR writers. Carol's one episode of Fraggle was such a GREAT script- the humor, the parallels (some of which took me months to catch), the clever...

James Lipton once said of working with the Muppets "they become more real than people". I like to think of how well Gerry carried it off, playing off of Sprocket. Their give and take was always believable, and they seemed to fill in each other's blanks. Sprocket may not have spoken, but he...

My best friend has never liked the Muppets, probably because I love them enough for two, but recently I've gotten him to watch some "Fraggle Rock" and he loves Pa Gorg- cracks him up like crazy. He thought Pa Gorg looked familiar, and then realized that he was thinking of David Crosby. Their...

He was Boober, Matt, and the World's Oldest Fraggle. Three of the main characters in the episode including two of the suspects. David "Gorgon Heap" Ebersole

When someone mentioned Southern, my gut reaction was Foghorn Leghorn. "That's a joke, son!" David "Gorgon Heap" Ebersole

Forgot to mention this, but it may be helpful to put your questions in bold, particularly if you go into some detail aside from the question, that way it stands out. It may not be necessary, and Terry can veto the idea (I leave it up to him, really), but I know it's worked for other such...

Speaking of Nelson's range, my informal research shows that he has just two notes shy of a full four-octave singing range, and that's just what's recorded. This explains why he was able to play high-voiced characters like Robin, female characters like Miss Mousey, and low-voiced characters like...

As some of you know, former "Fraggle Rock" Muppeteer Terry Angus- who played the Storyteller Fraggle, Brio the Minstrel, and Morris Fraggle- is a member of this forum, and I've been corresponding with him over the past few weeks on the topic of setting up a thread where we Muppet freaks can ask...

I dismissed the show when it first started appearing, but now I know I just wasn't paying attention, because once I did, I found the show to be brilliant in its straightforward, ironic, low-keyed and razor-sharp comedy. It has IMO the best and most tightly knit writing on television. Also of...

Here are some links to clips of him: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006ZXJ6Q/qid=1136597279/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-6662799-4241428?s=music&v=glance&n=5174 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000000CX0/qid=1136598636/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-6662799-4241428?s=music&v=glance&n=5174...

Wait a sec, you mean NO ONE HAS ANSWERED YET? The answer is because Jerry's daughter had cystic fibrosis, and he would take time off to go back to America to visit with her. This is also stated in Jerry's interview in the Articles section of the main site. Jerry had Statler originally (in...

My all-time favorite singer is gone. That voice- there'll never be another one like it. His talent was so developed, so unique, so wide-ranging- few can compare to it. It's a sad day for the music world. I was fortunate enough to see him live in concert a few years ago- the Saturday before...

Bump again. David "Gorgon Heap" Ebersole