Daoud Kuttab, executive producer of "Shara'a Simsim, " knows that the Muppets are highly effective communicators.
And if we intend to be more than muppets, we had better shape up.
Three family movies hit theaters this holiday weekend: The Muppets, Hugo and Arthur Christmas.
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" One of those times included "taking Shiloh, Zahara and Pax to see 'the Muppets.
Jane Henson, the former wife of Muppets creator Jim, has died aged 78 after a long battle with cancer.
This year, Bret McKenzie's Man or Muppet from The Muppets beat Real in Rio, from Rio, to win the accolade.
For example, Muppets creator Jim Henson died in 1990 from a case of sepsis that started out as pneumonia, an inflammation of the lungs.
Segel and Nicholas Stoller pitched the concept in 2008 for a Muppets film to Disney Executive Vice President of Production Kristin Burr.
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And when it comes to the way he dealt with customers, colleagues and competitors, well, they were all muppets or much worse.
He's also put Hampton in charge of Disney's latest acquisition: the Muppets.
Over the last 12 months I have seen five different managing directors refer to their own clients as 'muppets', sometimes over internal email.
Fears from certain paranoid quarters that "The Muppets" would yield an excessively adult, and therefore smutty, version of these beloved, family-friendly characters are, of course, unfounded.
So far, there's some laughter in the early episodes of "The Muppets" and a ton of built-in affection, but the wait for a great show continues.
By tea time they were Muppets who "sit on their lazy arses" - or so the Welsh party leader Andrew RT Davies colourfully put it.
He describes it as Lord of the Rings meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets The Muppets, with a little bit of Stars Wars thrown in.
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Not much had been heard from the Muppets since the 1990s.
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And the villain of Disney's most recent film, "The Muppets, " is an oil baron intent on drilling for oil at the site of the Muppets' theater.
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He compares Thomas and Camby who played for the Knicks in the 1990s and love to critique their younger teammates' clothing to the theater hecklers from the Muppets.
The Muppets always have relied on a suspension of disbelief to pre-empt this sort of intrusive reality-based questioning, but the premise of their new show seems to demand belief.
It's both the blessing and curse of the deep Muppets library that you get to choose between dozens of predeveloped characters, but it's the rare devotee who doesn't play favorites.
The Muppets have, in many of their incarnations, sustained a certain amount of double entendre, and this documentary-style glimpse behind the scenes doesn't remove the gauzy filter in any way.
The company has tried to contact him for more information about his accusations, including that he saw five managing directors call their clients "muppets" in the past year.
My interpretation of the negative money flow in Apple is that the muppets who were fed Apple at higher prices by Wall Street were reducing their positions.
The 2011 film The Muppets won an Oscar and was a box office hit, and British actor Ricky Gervais is playing the lead role in the sequel The Muppets...
Famously he was attacked by glove puppet Emu when children's personality Rod Hull was on his programme in 1976, and he also interviewed Muppets star Miss Piggy two years later.
More recently, another PBS hit, "Downton Abbey, " was parodied in "Upside Downton Abbey, " a video where British muppets have trouble drinking tea and eating crumpets because, well, they're upside down.
People start calling it flesh-eating bacteria, that a few years - maybe more than a decade ago, when Jim Henson, the Muppets creator died, that was actually strep, which is a different bacteria.
She offered a deal to develop their script and they came up with an old school Muppets movie, where the Muppets have to put on a show to save the studio.
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According to tracking data, The Muppets will come out on top not because kids are so excited to see the film but because their parents will drag them to see it.
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The song was first published in 1913 and has resulted in hundreds of recorded versions by acts ranging from Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby, The Pogues and Johnny Cash to The Muppets.
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