Street Gang (67 page)
Authors: Michael Davis
EPILOGUE
Interviews:
Joan Cooney, Jason Epstein, Don Hewitt, Chloe Kimball, Gary E. Knell, Peter Peterson, Sarah Otley, Diane Sawyer, Liz Smith, and Janet Wolf.
Joan Cooney, Jason Epstein, Don Hewitt, Chloe Kimball, Gary E. Knell, Peter Peterson, Sarah Otley, Diane Sawyer, Liz Smith, and Janet Wolf.
3
Gary Gentile, “Kermit, Miss Piggy Joining Mickey Mouse at Disney,” Associated Press, February 17, 2004.
Gary Gentile, “Kermit, Miss Piggy Joining Mickey Mouse at Disney,” Associated Press, February 17, 2004.
Index
Abby Cadabby (Muppet)
ABC Television
academic advisers
Aleinikoff, Gene
Alistair Cookie (Muppet)
Allegretti, Cosmo “Gus,”
Allison, Fran
Aloysius Snuffleupagus “Snuffy” (Muppet)
Amusing Ourselves to Death
(Postman)
(Postman)
Anderson, Jack
Arciero, Pam
Arledge, Roone
Arnold, Arnold
Around the Corner set expansion plan
Arsenio Hall Show
Ashman, Howard
Atkinson, Brooks
Avenue Q
Azcarraga Milmo, Emilio
Bailey, Joe
Baird, Bil
Baker, Martin G.
Bank Street College of Education
Banner, Bob
Barney & Friends
Barrett, Lionel
Barry, Dave
Bartlett, Alison
Batman
“Bein’ Green,”
Belafonte, Harry
Bereiter, Carl
Bernstein, Lewis
Berson, Minnie P.
Bert and Ernie (Muppets)
Bettelheim, Bruno
Biff (Muppet)
Big Bird (Muppet)
Biondo, Frankie
Black, Bill
black community
Bob (character)
Booker, Jimmy
Bove, Linda
Bower, Anne
Boylan, Annie (later Moss)
Boylan, Molly
branded merchandise.
See
licensing and marketing
See
licensing and marketing
Brannum, Hugh “Lumpy,”
Brantley, Ben
Brill, Fran
on Henson’s death and memorial service
as Prairie Dawn manipulator
at training program
as Zoe manipulator
Brillstein, Bernie
Britt, David V. B.
Bronfenbrenner, Urie
Brophy, Sallie
Brown, Bud
Brown, Les
Bruner, Jerome
Bundy, McGeorge “Mac,”
Burch, Dean
Buzzi, Ruth
Califano, Joseph
Call It Macaroni
Calloway, Northern
Captain Kangaroo. See also
Keeshan, Bob
Keeshan, Bob
animal acts
debut
educational segments
pedagogical style
publicity
quality of
Jon Stone as production assistant
Carnegie Corporation.
See also
Morrisett, Lloyd N.
See also
Morrisett, Lloyd N.
Citizens Committee for Public Television
Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding
CTW reading project funding
noncommercial television project
opinion of television
Pifer as president
program funding for disadvantaged children
Sesame Street
feasibility study
feasibility study
Sesame Street
funding
funding
Carrera-Rudolph, Leslie
Cash, Rosalind
Cater, Douglass
Cat in the Hat, The
(Geisel)
(Geisel)
CBS Television.
See also specific individuals
See also specific individuals
“Bicentennial Minutes,”
Captain Kangaroo,
advertising on
advertising on
Captain Kangaroo
publicity
publicity
CBS Children’s Film Festival
CTW, support for
gender discrimination
Great Santa Claus Switch
Keeshan, acquisition of
Morning Show
Omnibus
ratings for morning programming
rejection of
Sesame Street
project
Sesame Street
project
training program
United States Steel Hour
Cerf, Christopher
Cerf, Phyllis
Chall, Jeanne Stemlicht
Chance at the Beginning, A
Channel Thirteen (Thirteen)
Charles, Caroline
Charles, Ray
Chen, Milton
Child, Julia
children’s television programming.
See also specific programs
See also specific programs
edutainment
Minow’s characterization of
Peabody Awards
Children’s Television Workshop.
See
CTW (Children’s Television Workshop)
See
CTW (Children’s Television Workshop)
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
Clash, Kevin
Clifford (Muppet)
Coca, Imogene
Coffee Break Machine, The
Colleary, Bob
Collins, Judy
Collins, Pat
commercials
children’s responsiveness to
Henson’s income from
live, during children’s programs
Muppets in
as teaching models
Connell, Alan
Connell, David D.
background
at
Captain Kangaroo
Captain Kangaroo
career accomplishments
at curriculum seminars
Electric Company
family life
illness and death
Sesame Street
executive producer position
executive producer position
Sesame Street
naming process
naming process
on use of academic advisers
Connell, Jan
Cooke, Alistair
Cookie Monster (Muppet)
Cooney, Joan Ganz.
See also
CTW (Children’s Television Workshop)
See also
CTW (Children’s Television Workshop)
cancer
career achievements
Carnegie Corporation consultancy
casting guidelines
Chance at the Beginning, A
childhood and adolescence
commercial station airing of
Sesame Street
Sesame Street
Congressional hearing testimony
Disney, wariness of
early career
Electric Company
executive director position
executive team selections
father’s suicide
feasibility study
female character concept
fund misappropriation allegations
gender bias against
government funding
Henson, relationship with
marriage (first)
marriage (second) and grandchildren
Pete Peterson and
preschooler program vision
Presidential Medal of Freedom
press attention
on
Sesame Street
show title
Sesame Street
show title
social activism
success of
Sesame Street
Sesame Street
Cooney, Tim
alcoholism
background
death
promotion of Joan’s career
separation from Joan
social activism
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)
Cosby, Bill
Count Von Count (Muppet)
Cranshaw, Bobby
Cronkite, Walter
CTW (Children’s Television Workshop).
See also
Cooney, Joan Ganz;
Sesame Street
See also
Cooney, Joan Ganz;
Sesame Street
Around the Corner set expansion plan
business inexperience
cable television, sale of interests to
criticism, response to
curriculum seminars
Electric Company
endowment
formation of
funding
government audit
Henson, negotiations with
Hispanic community and
licensing considerations
Muppets trademark
NET and
outreach
power shift
Sesame Place theme park
songwriter rights
We’re All the Same, We’re All Different
(CTW)
(CTW)
curriculum development
D’Abruzzo, Stephanie
Dann, Michael
David (character)
Davidson, Robert
Davis, Evelyn Payne
Day, James
Degen, Carl
Delgado, Emilio
Dessart, George
Ding Dong School
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Disney.
See
Walt Disney Company
See
Walt Disney Company
Don Music (Muppet)
Double Feature
Dr. Nobel Price (Muppet)
Dr. Seuss
Drake, Jim
Dressner, Howard
DuMond, Joe
Eddy, Bill
Ed Sullivan Show, The
educational television
Eisner, Michael D.
See
Walt Disney Company
See
Walt Disney Company
Electric Company, The
Elmo (Muppet)
Elmo’s World
Emmett, Jay
Emmy Awards
EM.TV
Epstein, Danny
Epstein, Jason
Erickson, Bonnie
Erion, Susan
Ernie and Bert (Muppets)
Exploring
Farley, Gertrude
feminist community
Fields, Sidney
Finberg, Barbara
Firstenberg, Paul
Fisher, Craig B.
“Fisherman Song, The,”
focus groups
program viability and cost assessment
test audiences
Fonda, Henry
Foner, Naomi
Ford Foundation
Forgetful Jones (Muppet)
Fosse, Bob
Fountain, Lawrence H.
Fozzie Bear (Muppet)
Fraggle Rock
Freedman, Lewis
Freeman, Morgan
Freudberg, Judy
Friendly, Fred W.
Furlong, Philip J.
Gardner, John
Gardner, Paul
Garfield, Brian
Garfunkel, Frank
Garroway, Dave
Geisel, Theodor Seuss
Geiss, Tony
Gent, George
George Foster Peabody Award
Getchell, Franklin
Gibbon, Carol (formerly Jorjorian)
Gibbon, Samuel
at
Captain Kangaroo
Captain Kangaroo
CBS training program
Electric Company
at
Howdy Doody Show
Howdy Doody Show
at
Jimmy Dean Show
Jimmy Dean Show
secret romance
at
Sesame Street
curriculum seminars
Sesame Street
curriculum seminars
Sesame Street
producer position
producer position
Gilbert, Chauncey Raymond
Gladys the Cow (Muppet)
Goelz, Dave
Gold, Louise
Goldwater, Barry
Goodman, Julian
Goodson, Mark
Gordon (character)
Gottesman, Al
Gottlieb, Linda
Gould, Jack, commentary by
Captain Kangaroo
Children’s Television Workshop
Ding Dong School
Hey, Cinderella
Howdy Doody Show
Mickey Mouse Club
Public Broadcasting Laboratory
Sesame Street
Grade, Lew
Greene, Ellen
Grose, Virginia
Grover (Muppet)
Grundgetta (Muppet)
Gussow, Mel
Haffa, Thomas
Hailey, Marian
Halberstam, David
Hannah, Daryl
Hardhead Henry Harris (Muppet)
Hart, Bruce
Hart, Carole
Hatch, Robert A.
on conflict with Hispanic activists
Congressional hearing testimony arrangements
on Cooney’s social activism
on criticism of
Sesame Street
Sesame Street
exploitation of press in funding conflict
hiring of
on misappropriation accusation
on music rights and royalties
This Way to Sesame Street
Hausman, Louis
Hechinger, Fred M.
Heffner, Richard D.
Heide, Wilma Scott
Heinemann, George
Henson, Brian
Henson, Cheryl
Henson, James Maury.
See
Henson, Jim
See
Henson, Jim
Henson, Jane (formerly Nebel)
at Henson’s memorial service
marriage to Henson
Muppet character development
on origin of Muppet name
as puppeteer
Henson, Jim.
See also
Muppets
See also
Muppets
appeal to adult audiences
“Bein’ Green” recording
as businessman
CBS Snow White series
childhood
CTW employment negotiations
Dark Crystal
death and memorial service
Disney negotiations
dress and appearance
early career
European walkabout
Fraggle Rock
series
series
as friend
Hey, Cinderella
on identity as children’s entertainer
income from commercials
income from licensing
Labyrinth
marriage and family
Pied Piper of Astroworld
on puppetry
puppetry influences
“Rubber Duckie” rendition
Sam and Friends
Sesame Street,
influence on
influence on
techniques
vaudeville references
Henson Associates, Inc.
Henson Creature Shop
Henson Workshop
Herbuveaux, Jules
“Here Come the Muppets,”
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