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News & ArtsWednesday, July 8, 2009
Conflict of Interest / Film Your Late-Night Muppet
Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Besides starting awake in a state of panic at seven AM, I think the best part of doing The Morning News is finding a Daily Muppet clip.
And this week of Daily Muppets will conclude with a bang: I'll be hosting the midnight-thirty showing of Muppet Treasure Island at the Egyptian Theater this Friday. (As I understand it, "hosting" just means I'll be giving free stuff away and then watching the Muppet movie with everyone else.)
Muppet Treasure Island is notable for several important reasons. For instance, I'm pretty sure it's the Muppet movie that gives Sam the Eagle the most screen-time (oh, how I love Sam the Eagle). The costars, especially Tim Curry and Billy Connoly, are particularly skilled at human-Muppet interactions. It's also the movie that caused Spam to sue the Muppets. From Wikipedia:
Hormel Foods Corporation, makers of Spam, sued the film production company for using the name "Spa'am" for one of the film's wart hog characters. Their suit was defeated on September 22, 1995. The judge dismissed it after a trial for failure to prove damages, noting, "one might think Hormel would welcome the association with a genuine source of pork."
I hope you'll cap off your week with me this Friday at the Egyptian.
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Highly recommended movie.
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