In Memoriam: Jim Henson
Seventeen years ago today, it got just a bit less easy to be green.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLnyK7DG0CA
Here’s to you, good fellow. (Hat tip: Lisa Sullivan.)
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Well that made me cry.
A wonderful clip and a great special. The end shows the first (I believe) performance of Steve Whitmire as Kermit. If you look in the background, you can see other Jim Henson characters as well — Rowlf, Ernie, Waldorf — indicating that they were still "alive" as well. I believe this was also one of the final performances of the very talented Richard Hunt (Scooter, Statler, Janice, etc.) who died of AIDS in January 1992.