20 Things You Might Not Know About
the Muppets' Movies

One of this fall's most eagerly anticipated movies is 'The Muppets.' The November
23, release marks the return of the funny, fuzzy fauna to the big screen after a 12-
year absence.

The story, co-written by actor/screenwriter/fan Jason Segel, sees Segel, Amy Adams
and a new Muppet named Walter play 'Muppet Show' fans who stumble across a plot
by oil baron Chris Cooper to raze the dilapidated old Muppet Theater and drill for crude
on the property. The Muppet fans decide to save the theater by mounting a stage-
show fundraiser, but to do that, they need to reunite Kermit and the gang, who have
scattered to the four winds.

In real life, it's also a story of fans saving the Muppets from obscurity. "This is the
first Muppet production of any size that is really being spearheaded by fans instead
of hard-core Muppet professionals," said Lisa Henson, Jim Henson's daughter and
chief executive of the Henson Company, in a New York Times interview in April...