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NOW Magazine Hot Docs review: Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street Marilyn Agrelos documentary about the revolutionary childrens TV show is priceless By Norman Wilner NNNNN When it launched in 1969, Sesame Street was a children’s TV show where people and puppets sang songs and counted stuff and goofed around. It was also an unbelievably ambitious project – largely funded by the U.S. government – to make educational television that was diverse, inclusive and engaging. Arriving...

All the new movies and early theater releases you can watch at home right now 2020/03/20 2021/04/23 Article Contents This article is part of our Movie theaters are slowly reopening, but most of the new releases are headed to streaming services rather than the big screen. Whether youre staying at home to ​limit potential risks, or just saving a few bucks by watching from the couch, weve organized a huge list with many of the newly added films and some upcoming titles. April 23 | Starring: L...

On November 10, 1969, I had stayed home from school with a sore throat. And that is how I may have been the only teenager to watch the very first episode of "Sesame Street." I loved it from the first "Wanda the Witch lived somewhere west of Washington" animated short about the letter W. I had been hearing about the show for two years from my dad, Newton Minow, who was on the board of one of the programs initial funders, the Carnegie Foundation, and helped get the first federal funding for the s...

CST_ Screen Media presents a documentary directed by Marilyn Agrelo. Rated PG (for some thematic elements, language and smoking). Running time: 107 minutes. Opens Friday at Landmark Century Centre and available May 7 on demand. That’s the thing about “Sesame Street.” It’s in our heads and in our hearts and in our memories forever, and we’re all the better for it. So yes, the documentary “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street” is an unabashed love letter to the first 20 ...

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street and Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days review: D is for documentary in a pair of celebrations CNN 3 hrs ago Review by Brian Lowry, CNN © Robert Fuhring/Courtesy Sesame Workshop Jim Henson, Frank Oz and Jon Stone, as seen in Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (Robert Fuhring/Courtesy Sesame Workshop) "D" is for documentary, and "Sesame Street" gets celebrated in two of them this month: "Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Stree...

Sesame Street adds two celebrations of how it began and its long legacy By: CNN Review by Brian Lowry, CNN     (CNN) -- "D" is for documentary, and "Sesame Street" gets celebrated in two of them this month: "Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street," a deep dive into the shows origins; and "Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days," a fairly dutiful, star-studded ABC special. The former proves considerably more interesting, but the two complement ea...

Chris Vognar April 21, 2021Updated: April 21, 2021, 5:26 pm Muppets creator Jim Henson (left) is seen in archival footage in the documentary “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street.” Photo: Courtesy SFFilm “Sesame Street” was potent stuff, especially if you were a little ankle biter during the show’s early days in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Proust can keep his madeleine. I’ll take the Martians trying to figure out the telephone, and all of those insanely catchy...

That’s a shame too, because it’s possible to balance the immense good Sesame Street has done with a frank discussion about the show’s eventual descent into something more commercial — the kind of thing it was conceived as an alternative to. Acknowledging that evolution does not besmirch the beautiful legacy Jim Henson left behind. It’s OK to say that Tickle Me Elmo was a pretty far cry from the show that preceded it. Doing what it can with the series’ guarded imag...

‘Street’ smarts, ‘Towns’ team, Down East dispatches By Peter Keough Globe Correspondent,Updated April 21, 2021, 1 hour ago Email to a Friend From left: Jim Henson, Frank Oz. and Jon Stone in the early days of "Sesame Street."Robert Fuhring/Courtesy Sesame Workshop In the 50-plus years since it first aired, on Nov. 10, 1969, “Sesame Street” has remained television’s most innovative and influential children’s show. Marilyn Agrelo’s comprehensive, engag...

The documentary shows a bunch of the famous names who stopped by to see Oscar the Grouch, Grover and the rest of Henson’s Muppets crew, from James Earl Jones and Stevie Wonder to Johnny Cash and Paul Simon. With behind-the-scenes footage, “Street Gang” lets audiences take a peek at the puppeteering comedy team of Henson and Frank Oz, but also digs into how it explained the death of Mr. Hooper to kids after actor Will Lee had a fatal heart attack in 1982 and even deals with the work-a-holi...