Taking a fresh look at Henson's TV shows and movies 20 years later -- now possible thanks to a terrific new Northwest Film Center retrospective playing throughout May -- I realized that Henson accomplished much the same thing with the Muppets that Charles M. Schulz accomplished with 'Peanuts' and Chuck Jones accomplished with Looney Tunes. Henson controlled a commercially profitable set of characters that somehow managed to reflect his soul, humor and philosophy, did it across several different media, and pulled it off for decades. And the fact that he was producing, writing, directing and performing in projects this technically complex is jaw-dropping. Imagine George Lucas not only directing 'Star Wars' but also playing Luke Skywalker and Han Solo and building all the models, and you're starting to appreciate what Henson pulled off with regularity for 30-plus years.
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Slightly unrelated, but without this computer (complete with 2500 valves)leading the way all those years ago, there would be no CGI today. Is that good or bad?
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