Introduced by actress Lucy Liu and joined by Sesame Street legend Elmo, singer Thomas Rhett helped pay homage to the long-running children’s series at the Kennedy Center Honors gala Sunday night. Although its core audience might not be aware, 2019 has been a bittersweet year for the educational and entertaining series, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last month, having made its PBS debut on November 10th, 1969. And just last week, original Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch puppeteer Caroll Spinney died, having retired from the show in October 2018. But as the loving tribute emphasized,...
- 12/16/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
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