Our one-year-old son Matthew had a “language tape,” a VHS video transcription of the first three Muppet movies that I had made in the previous decade for his older brother and sister during a Muppet marathon on old Channel 45. It was complete with commercials and station breaks and really, really bad video, but it was perfect for Matt.
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1979,
1991,
Charles Durning,
Doc Hopper,
Dr. Teeth,
Fozzie Bear,
Jim Henson,
Kathryn Mullen,
Kenny Ascher,
Kermit the Frog,
language tape,
Muppet Movie,
Paul Williams,
Rainbow Connection,
speech development,
Steve Whitmire,
The Rainbow Connection,
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I needed to unpack things. I needed to clean things up. And Gladys pitched in. It was strange that someone who could generate such chaos in any space she occupied could somehow help bring order to mine. But she did.
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007,
1965,
1983,
1984,
2006,
Alan and Marilyn Bergman,
Batman,
Brasil '66,
Casino Royale,
Central Park West,
Glad-Eyes,
Gladys Gwynne,
Gladys Smullyan,
Goldfinger,
Harvard,
Herb Alpert,
Hollywood,
Ian Fleming,
James Bond,
k.d. lang,
Lani Hall,
Lorenzo Semple Jr.,
Michele Legrand,
Never Say Never Again,
Octopussy,
Princeton,
Sean Connery,
Sunset Boulevard,
Surrender,
Thunderball,
Tomorrow Never Dies,
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