The Sesame Street my daughter watches and the one I watched have only a
few things in common. I'm BE, for one thing -- "Before Elmo" and all
his little pals. The Count used to be scarier, Oscar grouchier, and
Bert and Ernie a little less, ahem, ambiguous.
One thing, though, we share: Carroll Spinney's
been the man behind the Big Bird costume all that time. Now 74 (which
certainly explains why we don’t see as much of Big Bird as we used to),
Spinney is still playing the loveable, goofy, 8-foot avian (he also
plays Oscar the Grouch). His book about his adventures, The Wisdom of
Big Bird and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch, was released
yesterday.
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