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  Jim Henson - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
James Maury Henson, (September 24, 1936–May 16, 1990), commonly known as Jim Henson, was one of the most important puppeteers in modern American television history.
Henson himself appeared as a guest on many shows, including the Ed Sullivan Show, and his Muppets had a regular segment on Saturday Night Live during its first season in 1975.
Jim Henson died unexpectedly on May 16, 1990 due to streptococcal pneumonia.
encyclopedia.learnthis.info /j/ji/jim_henson.html   (1177 words)

  
 The Jim Henson Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henson died in 1990; the company is now run by his son Brian and daughter Lisa, who serve as co-chairs and co-CEOs.
Nine months before Jim Henson's death in May 16, 1990, he was negotiating the sale of his company to The Walt Disney Company for a reported $150 million.
On March 15, 2005, The Jim Henson Company annouced that they are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the company with a number of events, starting with screenings of The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth on April 23 at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Jim_Henson_Company   (365 words)

  
 UNFORGETTABLE JIM HENSON
Indeed, their response to Jim and his Muppets was one of the things that made me realize what a very special person he was.
Jim's Kermit the Frog-fashioned from his mother's old coat-wore a blond wig and sang "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" to an unsightly, purple-faced monster operated by Jane.
In Jim's tiny submarine compartment was a bread-box TV monitor and all six feet, three inches of Jim, jammed into a cross-legged yoga crouch.
www.angelfire.com /me3/muppets/JimDigest.html   (1644 words)

  
 Henson, Jim
Jim Henson's most significant contribution to television culture was his imaginative ability.
Jim Henson developed an innovative art-form which was perfectly suited for television.
Henson's Muppets were abstractions--most were animals, some were humans, and others a combination of both, all of different sizes, shapes and colors.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/H/htmlH/hensonjim/hensonjim.htm   (1259 words)

  
 The My Hero Project - Jim Henson
On September 24, 1936, Jim Henson was born in Greenville, Mississippi.
Jim Henson was born on September 24, 1936.
Jim Henson was the father of the Muppets.
www.myhero.com /hero.asp?hero=jHenson   (874 words)

  
 Jim Henson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Jim was born on September 24, 1936 in the small town of Leland, Mississippi.
Jim Henson believed that "if you can't find a way to really enjoy what you are doing, why are you doing it?" (Finch 420) He knew that if it could work, he would make it work.
To me Jim Henson is a radical thinker because he taught generations of children the basics of life.
www.fortunecity.com /marina/harbour/1801/henson.html   (1195 words)

  
 Dr. James F. Moore - Berkman Center for Internet & Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Jim is a private investor involved in the venture capital business, and has served on the boards of several companies and organizations, including two public companies.
Jim was honored by the 4th World Forum on e-Democracy as one of the top 25 individuals, organizations and companies that are having the greatest impact on the way the Internet is changing politics, for the publication of this paper.
Jim is an active supporter of the Harvard School of Public Health, a former Chair of its Advisory Board on Society and Health, and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Harvard AIDS Institute, which works primarily with AIDS in Africa.
cyber.law.harvard.edu /people/moore.html   (897 words)

  
 jmdl LIBRARY: Muppets build global empire for Henson: Electronic Media, February 13, 1989
Henson Productions' efforts toward co-production had a major breakthrough about four years ago when the company purchased international distribution rights to "The Muppet Show" from ITC Entertainment, which was then owned by Lord Grade.
Henson Productions is also developing a series "dealing with the environment which will be international in scope," one of several ventures the company is working on with Japan's NHK.
Henson productions plans to further expand into prime-time television with a half-hour situation comedy "that has a fantasy element, a creature or a group of creatures," Mr.
www.jmdl.com /library/print.cfm?id=1109   (1048 words)

  
 THE DARK CRYSTAL - SUPERBIT DVD
When Jim Henson passed away in 1990, he left behind diverse legions of fans and a company whose ultimate success, it now seems, hinged on his input.
Jim Henson Productions and The Creature Shop are still thriving financially, but as the past few Muppet films (or that silly-looking computer-generated monkey from Lost In Space) demonstrate, the thrill and genius are gone.
The Dark Crystal is also the first and last Henson feature to capture the sensuality of his craft--there's an almost carnal fluidity to the puppetry, which is as mesmerizing as you've heard; the proverbial strings are out of mind from the prologue, narrated, incidentally, with stentorian pride by John Baddeley.
www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/darkcrystalsuperbit.htm   (698 words)

  
 MWP: Jim Henson (1936-1990)
Henson’s success on Sesame Street paved the way for his next television production, The Muppet Show, a weekly syndicated variety show hosted by Kermit the Frog with an expanded cast of both new and familiar muppets and guest starring live actors and celebrities.
Jim Henson’s The Storyteller and Jim Henson’s Greek Myths were original series conceived by Henson to convey the metaphoric richness of ancient stories.
Henson’s film and television productions are too numerous to recount here, as are his varied roles in them: he often served as writer, director, producer, and “performer” (as puppeteer and voice) in his productions, and occasionally in other roles as well (such as choreography for The Muppets Take Manhattan).
www.olemiss.edu /depts/english/ms-writers/dir/henson_jim   (1049 words)

  
 FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
Henson plans to support the release of its film with a merchandising program, including licensed products depicting scenes and/or characters from the movie, and already has contracted to place Muppet Treasure Island vignettes on food, candy, and cereal boxes.
Viewed against the backdrop of Henson's transparent parodic intent and the contextual dissimilarity between the two marks, it is clear that use of the name "Spa'am" does not blur Hormel's mark.
Although we agree with the substantive conclusions of the district court, we disagree with the district court's footnote statement that, because Henson was delaying its merchandising use of Spa'am pending a favorable decision concerning the purported use, the court's "view" was in effect dictum.
caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /scripts/getcase.pl?court=2nd&navby=case&no=957977   (4593 words)

  
 Jim Henson Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Jim Henson was born on the twenty-forth day of September in the year 1936 in a small town in Mississippi.
By 1981, Henson decided to concentrate more on his other ideas/interests and stopped taping new episodes for "The Muppet Show." He began filming The Dark Crystal which encompassed all of Henson's techniques plus new mechanics he was starting to become involved with.
Henson also conducted a much more dramatic use of puppetry and special effects shown in the television episodes of "The Storyteller" which ran from 1987 to 1989.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Academy/3108/chjh.html   (1069 words)

  
 Los Angeles Business Journal: New movie venture united Henson, Columbia - Jim Henson Pictures; Jim Henson Productions ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Lisa Henson, president of Columbia Pictures and daughter of the late Jim Henson, reportedly had a minor role in the Columbia/Henson deal.
Jim Henson Productions first burst on the scene in 1969 when its Muppet characters began showing up in the Children's Television Workshop's production of Sesame Street.
Henson will oversee the new company with Henson Productions President and Chief Operating Officer Charles Rivkin and a senior executive to be named later.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5072/is_n31_v17/ai_17354767   (624 words)

  
 Sesame Street Cartoon Character information: Sesame Street history, movies, games and more from Character Products
Jim Henson’s Muppet creations were already well know to network TV viewers when television producer Joan Ganz Cooney asked Henson to create a family of muppet characters for Sesame Street.
Jim Henson, was born in Greenville Mississippi in 1936.
Brian Henson is also Chairman of The Jim Henson Company and is continuing his father’s legacy.
www.characterproducts.com /info/character_histories/sesame_st_doorway.htm   (558 words)

  
 Discount Store News: Henson slaps trademark suit on licensor - Jim Henson Productions, John T. Brady and Associates
Jim Henson Productions, which filed its claim in the federal District Court in New York, claims Brady's use of the phrase "Original Muppets created by Jim Henson," constitutes an unlawful use of the company's trademarks.
Jim Henson Productions has filed a motion with the court to get a deposition from Brady to find out his business plans.
The issue for the Henson family is a broader one beyond the ownership of the characters, Simkin noted.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3092/is_n15_v31/ai_12540137   (616 words)

  
 USF IPLA BULLETIN FALL'96 - 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Hormel Foods charged Jim Henson Productions with trademark infringement and dilution based on Henson's planned use of a character called "Spa'am"2 in the movie Muppet Treasure Island as well as in related merchandise.
Henson's "lack of subtlety" in his parody was interpreted as evidence that no deceit was intended, and no evidence of bad faith was found.16
In looking at the quality of the products, the court held that since the district court found Spa'am to be a "positive character [and] that he is not unhygienic"17 it is unlikely that a simple comic reference to the fact that SPAM is made from pork will damage its image.18
www.usfca.edu /ipla/html/ipf964.htm   (1823 words)

  
 Brian Henson
Brian Henson is President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Jim Henson Productions.
Henson directed and produced the hit feature film, The Muppet Christmas Carol, which was released throughout North America, the United Kingdom and Australia in December, 1992.
Brian Henson has served as Executive Producer on a number of popular television series, including Dinosaurs, which ran for four seasons in primetime on ABC Television; and CityKids, a live-action Saturday morning series which debuted on ABC Television in September, 1993.
www.ncsa.uiuc.edu /VR/BS/Muppets_beta/JHP/bh.html   (376 words)

  
 The Muppet Show
This page is devoted to The Muppet Show, created by Jim Henson and Frank Oz (who not only writes & directs, but is also several of the voices including Yoda in the Star Wars movies), and subject of books, as well as the new movie Muppets from Space.
Puppeteer extraordinaire Jim Henson created this hour prime-time series, which consisted of two distinct half-hour segments: the first resembled The Muppet Show, presenting skits and songs featuring the Muppets and guest stars, while the second, called The Storyteller, presented a story, with live actors, narrated by John Hurt.
Henson's final network tv series was DINOSAURS (26 April 1991 - 3 September 1993; 1 June 1994 - 20 July 1994) on ABC.
www.angelfire.com /nv/muppet   (528 words)

  
 Kermitage - Collectibles - Crew Items
The card was further extended by Henson productions art dept by adding some paper engineering and incorporating opening windows.
The Hurlbutt Gallery and the friends of the Greenwich Library together with the Jim Henson Legacy presented an exhibition during March and April of 1994 titled Jim Henson The Greenwich years 1964 -1971.
The exhibition gave a retrospective of the bredth of Jim's working during the time that he and his family lived in Greenwich Conneticut.The cover of the intive to a special evening hosted by jane Henson features an illustration based upton Jim's short film timepiece.
www.kermitage.com /html/collectibles/crewitems   (1137 words)

  
 Henson vs. Hormel Legal Opinion
Purchasers of the secondary products are generally consumers of the luncheon meat and associate the secondary products with the luncheon meat.
Hormel argues that it is clear that Henson intended to capitalize on the goodwill and reputation of its trademark and that this implies bad faith.
FN2: As Henson notes, there are three issues before the court: (1) the use of Spa'am in the motion picture; (2) the use of the Spa'am likeness on merchandise; (3) the use of the Spa'am name on merchandise.
www.toucans.net /Trademark/spamnotes.html   (6653 words)

  
 Lisa Marie Kocovsky's Home Page
In 1991 their son Brian was named president and CEO of The Jim Henson Company, which continues to produce films and television programs." (Biography.com 3/3/03)
In continuation to the short Jim Henson biography, it should be known that Jim Henson died of phnemonia and not a "lung cancer" rumor that circulated world wide.
Again, after Jim Henson's death his company Jim Henson Production's was somewhat in the red, Disney was intrested in keeping the lovable characters alive so they purchased a good portion of the company.
www.uwm.edu /People/kocovsky   (725 words)

  
 Kermitage - Collectibles - Crew Items
Thios featured the companies new name, changed from Jim Henson Productions to the Jim Henson Company in order to encompass more of the projects the company was now becoming involved in.
The Henson Company has a long tradition of making apparral and clothing for cast and crew members to wear on nearly all of their productions.
Produced by Stormin Normin Productions of New York this replica of Scooters Jacket became the unofficial crew jacket for the cast and crew of The Muppet Show.
www.kermitage.com /html/collectibles/crewitems/page3.html   (923 words)

  
 Jim Henson
Henson died of pneumonia in 1990, and in 2000 his company was sold to a German firm.
Jim Henson - Jim Henson puppeteer Born: 9/24/1936 Birthplace: Greenville, Mississippi A life-long puppet lover,...
Jim Henson Television Wins Three Saturn Awards For Farscape(TM) and Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story(TM); Farscape Wins Two Saturn Awards for 'Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series' And 'Best Actor in a Television Series'; Jim Henson's Jack and Beanstalk: The Real Story Wins for 'Best Single Television Presentation'.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0921579.html   (441 words)

  
 CGTalk - Jim Henson Introduces Real-Time Animation
Presently the technology is being used in production of their new animated series "Frances" (sp.?) and the new Call of Duty video game.
Henson is a cool company, but this technology is nothing new.
People from Henson were demo-ing that at one of the Nvidia booths at SIGGRAPH last year.
forums.cgsociety.org /showthread.php?t=214257   (381 words)

  
 Cinequest VIII pr1
Charles H. Rivkin is the first individual outside the Henson family that has held the title of President at Jim Henson Productions.
Shortly after he was promoted to Vice President by the late Jim Henson, he was named Vice President and Chief Operating Officer by Brian Henson in 1991 and became an Executive Vice President in 1994.
In parallel with having Silicon Valley corporations exhibiting their latest products during the festival, a tour of the leading Silicon Valley companies will be organized.
www.cinequest.org /98/press/pr1.html   (410 words)

  
 Spero News | Petition granted: Fraggle Rock released to DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This September, the Jim Henson Company is responding to online petitions from fans by releasing the first season of Fraggle Rock, which premiered in 1983, to DVD.
According to a press release from the Jim Henson Company, the program was designed to entertain while also encourage an understanding and embracing of diversity.
Jim Henson, who died in 1990 from bacterial pneumonia, said “The show has a direction and a point of view.
www.speroforum.com /site/article.asp?idCategory=31&idsub=115&id=1777   (579 words)

  
 Jim Henson's light touch lives on   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Thanks in large part to Henson's grown children, Jim Henson Productions is still going strong, turning out family television with the inimitable mingling of silliness and sophistication that gives Kermit, Miss Piggy and their cousins such animal magnetism.
Most of the characters are played by live actors; the Henson contribution can be seen in the various monsters and and in the charming, if rather un-Hellenic, talking dog who makes up the audience of one for the spellbinding narration by Michael Gambon.
Thanks in large part to Henson's grown children, Jim Henson Productions is still going strong, turning out family television with (an) inimitable mingling of silliness and sophistication.
www.jsonline.com /letsgo/tv/wein/1113wein.stm   (539 words)

  
 Learn more about Sony in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It was founded on May 7, 1946 as the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering with about 20 employees.
Their first consumer product, in the late 1940s, was a rice boiler.
As it grew into a major international corporation, Sony acquired other companies with longer histories, including Columbia Records (the oldest continuously produced brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888).
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/so/sony.html   (213 words)

  
 Brian Henson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Henson literally grew up at the Jim Henson Co., working alongside his father from the time he was 6 years old.
He went on to direct the ACE award-winning children's television series, "Jim Henson's Mother Goose Stories," for which he received an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Directing in a Children's Program." He took over as president and CEO of the Jim Henson Co. after Jim Henson's death in May 1990,
In 2002, Henson stepped away from management responsibilities of the company to concentrate on producing and directing.
theoscarsite.com /whoswho7/henson_b.htm   (443 words)

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