It seems like Frank Oz’s Muppet days are behind him. The director and Fozzie Bear actor sat down with the Guardian to talk about the legacy of the Muppets and “Sesame Street”, and where he feels things went wrong.
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It made him sick,” Oz said of creator Jim Henson’s sudden death from streptococcal toxic shock syndrome in 1990 at the age of 53.
When Henson died, he was in the midst of negotiations with Disney CEO Michael Eisner about selling the Muppets to the corporation. “Eisner was trying to get ‘Sesame Street’, too, which Jim wouldn’t allow.
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