An unconventional glimpse into the famed puppeteer's background is on display at the Bay Area Contemporary Jewish Museum - and it includes a satirical pre-WWII marionette of Hitler
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Clockwise from top left: Alice Cooper with the “School’s Out” monsters, Rita Moreno with Animal, and Diana Ross with Fozzie Bear
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The Muppets were made for TV. It just took TV 20 or so years to get ready for The Muppets. They’d been local favorites, staples of the talk- and variety-show circuits, and some of the earliest stars of American public television. But until Jim Henson convinced British producer Lew Grade who’d previously made a transatlantic smash out of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s Supermarionation series to take a flier on his furry, funny, and frantic creations, the Muppets had never had a show to call their own. When the curtain went up on