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...suspect thinks it's not fantasy because it's a dream, and because of various other things, and because Dave is not terribly comfortable with the idea of fantasy. I'm perfectly comfortable with fantasy, so I think it's definitely fantasy. But the brief with Mirrormask was Henson coming to us and saying, in the Eighties, Henson's did The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. They were family fantasy films. They cost $40 million each. We'd like to do another one. We have $4 million. If we gave you that $4 million, could you come back with a movie...
...Henson's HBO kids' show had plenty of fun--original music, painful puns and a talking trash heap--but it also took on weighty matters (courage, honesty, self-discovery) with sophistication and tenderness. It did emotional education as well as Sesame Street imparted the ABCs. And the regular dispatches of Fraggle explorer Uncle Traveling Matt from the strange realms of "outer space"--that is, the world of humans--reminded kids that people could be the most outlandish creatures of all. --By James Poniewozik
...gluttonous ways is not simply an outrage, but a telling moment about where the pinnacle of all children’s shows is heading. Since 2000, the Sesame Workshop has had full control of the Sesame Street characters, and I’m pretty sure that Jim Henson never meant for his creations to be bastardized in such a ridiculous...
...Filled with details, as the way the Keeper's pipe smoke always coils into little skulls and lost creatures, and wildly imaginative and amusing creatures, like the stopwatch-shaped robots that need to be wound up, "Dungeon" has the same kind of wit, style and completeness of a Jim Henson universe...
...choir, acolytes, people who make the coffee." The average age of congregants has jumped to somewhere in the 50s, and there are far fewer children. Donations are down a third. "All the years we struggled to build this church, we're right back where we started," says a desolate Henson. "How do you hire a rector without money?" Bishop Alexander insists that the diocese will help out as needed, however, and junior warden Steve Poole says the church hasn't dipped into its reserve fund. Citing a new lunch-and-tutoring program for local grade schoolers, Poole maintains that after...