Feathers of Color: What was it Like Playing The Famous Bigbird: An American Icon

In his memoir The Wit and Wisdom of Big Bird , Caroll Spinney speaks affectionately of Love and his importance to the show, though noting an occasional cantankerous side.

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In addition to his work on Sesame Street , Love remained busy as freelancer, creating and building puppets for the non-Henson puppet series The Great Space Coaster. One of his specials was watched by a young Kevin Clash , whose parents contacted Kermit and told him about their son. After both shows were cancelled, Kevin moved on to Sesame Street. Other works included building the Snuggle Bear [2] puppet for the popular Snuggle fabric softener commercials.

Love also appeared as Santa Claus on the cover of New York magazine [4] [2] in December , and Although he was American, Love often spoke with an English accent. He resided in Stanfordville, New York and was survived by Christopher Lyall, his partner of 50 years. Love died on June 21, , of congestive heart failure [6] and pneumonia in Poughkeepsie , New York. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Spring Lake , New Jersey. Poughkeepsie , New York. Accessed July 14, His father, Ernest Love, was a decorative plasterer. His mother, Alice, died when he was 3, and he was raised by a grandmother and a great-grandmother.

Retrieved April 20, But Spinney wanted something more meaningful, and he got his chance after running into Muppets mastermind Jim Henson at a puppet festival in Salt Lake City: Spinney, in his 80s, is still Big Bird, going on 45 years now, although he has long had a younger understudy, Matt Vogel - one of the many talking heads to offer adoration and insight in the film.

Spinney's account of their meeting is comically odd - he may have some facial recognition issues. His grown children also offer testimonials. Spinney comes across as a man whose warm spirit is literally at the core of the loving, if loopy Big Bird.

But the film reminds us that he's also long served as the principal puppeteer and personality of another Sesame Street mainstay - the perennially cranky Oscar the Grouch. Would an I Am Oscar the Grouch doc be an altogether different affair, with Spinney revealed as a bitter curmudgeon, a miserable misanthrope?

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Happily, from the evidence provided in I Am Big Bird , the answer is no. Distributed by Tribeca Film.

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