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Long before America came to appreciate the talents of Jim Henson and his brilliant creations, The Muppets, Ed Sullivan had the foresight to identify with Henson's enormous creativity and provide him ...

The Muppets’ new primetime series will drop the characters into a 21st century mockumentary, but a recent DVD release takes Kermit The Frog back to his variety-show roots. Long before he was talking ...

In this week’s new releases, Michael O’Sullivan says “Divergent” may be better than the Veronica Roth novel on which it’s based; “Muppets Most Wanted” succeeds as a sequel to the 2011 film "The ...

If you’re a fan of The Beatles, the Muppets, Elvis Presley, or even classical violinist Itzhak Perlman, then you have celebrity Ed Sullivan to thank. The Ed Sullivan Show was instrumental in ...

Also in Slate, Dana Stevens reviews The Muppets. With guest vocalists ranging from Joanna Newsom to Mickey Rooney, the soundtrack to The Muppets reboot leaves no demographic unserved. But the song ...