Kermit Love, the costume designer, who along with Jim Henson, created such amazing puppets like Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster (my favourite) and Snuffleupagus died this past Saturday. He was a versatile designer in demand with the ballet elite including Twyla Tharpe and Jerome Robbins.
Jim Henson sketched out Big Bird for the 1969 debut of Sesame Street and Love created the actual puppet, all 8 feet of it. He started making puppets in 1935 for a federal Works Progress Administration theater (I`ll have to look that up), and was a costume designer for Orson Wells Mercury Theatre before working for the New York City Ballet.
He also couched puppeteers in getting into the role of the puppets personality. And no, he`s not Kermit the Frog`s namesake. See ya Willy.
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