The RHLC!

[CensoredAlso]

Yay! Yeah, that must be a good feeling. Everybody's always pretty shocked when I tell them, hehe.

 

[Muppet Newsgirl]

Hey, maybe we can hit 300 by Richard's birthday.

But more importantly:

The AIDS quilt block containing Richard's panel now has a photo posted on the quilt web site!

And the way they've got it all set up, Richard's panel is pretty much in the center.

 

[Beakerfan]

Well I feel stupid....

How could I have gone all this time without knowing I shared a birthday with one of my favorite muppeteers? *smacks forehead* I tell ya! I think God had something in mind when He picked what day I would be born on.... I mean, I adore the Muppets (obviously) and I happen to share a birthday with Richard Hunt. I'm crazy about Elvis, and I was born on the anniversay of his death. AND I'm a huge baseball fanatic, and I was also born on the anniversary of Babe Ruth's death. How weird is that? Ok, sorry! Enough of this rambling....

 

[Skye]

Hey, maybe we can hit 300 by Richard's birthday.

But more importantly:

The AIDS quilt block containing Richard's panel now has a photo posted on the quilt web site!

And the way they've got it all set up, Richard's panel is pretty much in the center.

That's awesome, Erin! Wonderful news. Thanks for letting us know!

And by the way, I definitely think we could hit 300 pages by Richard's birthday! We're awesome, he's awesome... it can definitely work!

 

[CensoredAlso]

Oh yeah it is in the center, that's awesome! And that's cool that you share a birthday, Beakerfan.

 

[Ilikemuppets]

Thank for telling us about the quilt, Erin! Cool that you share You're birthday with so many of you're interest, Beekerfan!

 

[MeepBorkMeep]

Just got back from the Huntington Dave Goelz/Kevin Clash/Fran Brill/Jane Henson panel for a moment with a small Richard story-

Kevin Clash said that he first met Richard Hunt in the bathroom at Macy's, and Richard gave him a pep talk to convince him to go up to Jim and talk about his puppet interest.

Very very short story.

 

[Skye]

Perhaps a very short story, but very cute, too, hehe. Thanks for sharing it, MBM! And I hope you had a great time at the panel! It sounds awesome!

 

[CensoredAlso]

Awesome story, Meep, thanks! A pep talk from Richard Hunt...sounds great! Hehe

Hope you had a great time, you were so lucky to get to go. I'd love to hear anything else cool that happened.

 

[Ilikemuppets]

Yeah, that's a great story, MBM1 I hope you have a fun time! He was well known in the puppet community at the time, and in the Puppet papers or something like that at the time, is said that he was highly sought after by Jim Henson at the time, too. But Richard mentored him and Marty and David Rudman around the time. I know it his book that he shared some of the same interest in Puppets as Jim. "Like Koko, Fran and Allie" which they both use to watch when they we're younger even though Jim is much older of course. But Kevin said in in interview that the transition from Sesame street From The Captain Kangaroo show and the Great Space Coaster wasn't very difficult because he was doing the same stuff and type of puppetry as they were doing On Sesame Street, only with a bigger budget. I think it was the Carol Rove show one. But the type and style of puppetry that Jim does is very specific which separates it from other kinds. It really pushes the limits of making you believe in the characters.