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ESSENTIALS [Frank Oz Edition]

Frank Oz
AKA Richard Frank Oznowicz

Born: 25-May-1944
Birthplace: Hereford, England

Occupation: Actor, Film Director
Father: Isidore Oznowicz (puppeteer)
Mother: Frances Oznowicz (puppeteer)
Wife: Robin Garsen (m. 12-Dec-1979, two children

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Yoda, Miss Piggy, and The Stepford Wives

Frank Oz is a puppeteer and motion picture director. He created many of the voices and operated "Muppets" for Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, and he has directed movies such as Little Shop of Horrors and The Stepford Wives. He was born to puppeteer parents in England, who emigrated to the United States when he was five years old. Oz played with puppets from a very early age, started staging his own puppet shows at 12, and was an accomplished amateur puppeteer by high school.

Jim Henson met Oz at a California convention of puppeteers, and hired Oz in 1963. They worked together for decades. Oz performed an early version of the Cookie Monster for Our Place, a children's show that aired on CBS in 1967, and Henson, Oz, and the Muppets became cornerstones of Western culture with the debut of Sesame Street in 1969, followed by The Muppet Show and later a series of Muppet movies. Oz's Muppet characters include Bert, Grover, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, the Cookie Monster, Sam the Eagle, Swedish Chef, and most famously, Yoda, the oracle of wisdom in the Star Wars movies. Producer George Lucas gave Oz a great deal of leeway in designing Yoda's appearance, and the character's reversed grammar was Oz's idea.

In 1982, Henson and Oz co-directed The Dark Crystal, a fantasy told through puppetry. Oz alone directed The Muppets Take Manhattan, and later Little Shop of Horrors, where more than two dozen puppeteers operated an enormous man-eating plant-puppet. But Little Shop was mostly a live-action film, and its success made Oz a bankable Hollywood director, puppets or no puppets. As a director, Oz's credits include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, What About Bob?, HouseSitter, In & Out, Bowfinger, and The Stepford Wives. Oz has also appeared in cameo roles in several films. He's the corrections officer who hands John Belushi his possessions as he's discharged from Joliet Prison in The Blues Brothers, and he's the cop who takes Dan Aykroyd's stuff when he's jailed in Trading Places.




ESSENTIALS [Frank Oz Edition]
Bert - Doin’ The Pigeon
Cookie Monster – C is for Cookie
Grover – I Am Blue
Miss Piggy - Snackercise
Fozzie Bear – Movin’ Right Along
Bert - La La La
Miss Piggy & Rudolf Nureyev - Baby It's Cold Outside
Grover – Near And Far
Bert - Paper Clip
Muppets - People In Your Neighborhood
Animal – Wipe Out
Cookie Monster - One Of These Things
John Williams – Imperial March (Darth Vader’s Theme)

Genesis - Squonk

The Silent Boatman Lyrics

"The Silent Boatman"
It is said that when we leave this world
If we have suffered we will be saved
So I'll lift up my head, whoever I am
What I cannot do here, there's a place that I can

I'm waiting for the silent boatman
To ferry me across the unknown waters

In this life, though I've tried
Many things couldn't be
Closed minds with faces looking down onto me
Parting means grief, but only for those left
All men descend into earth at the very same depth

I'm waiting for the silent boatman
To ferry me across the unknown waters

I wonder if in death, man at last can love man
Stripped of all life's gifts to him
No ego to remain
When you reach Jordan's bank, there's no money, power or fame
No third or second class, the fare is all the same

I'm waiting for the silent boatman (silent boatman)
To ferry me across the unknown waters (unknown waters)
(x10)
Ruth Copeland and Parliament

Breakfast At Tiffany's [Starring Marilyn Monroe?]

Ella Rouge - Holly Golightly

Stan Getz Quintet - Autumn Leaves


Cal Tjader - Azucar Mama


Funkadelic - As Good As I Can Feel


Henry Mancini - Latin Golightly


Charlie Parker - My Old Flame


The Bela Sanders Orchestra - Moon River


Miles Davis & John Coltrane - 'Round Midnight


Lester Young with Oscar Peterson Trio - Almost Like Being In Love

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When I heard that Marilyn Monroe was originally to play Holly Golightly in the motion picture release Breakfast At Tiffany's I laughed...and then made this new soundtrack. Certainly it is not an absurd thought that Monroe could portryaa woman who would get paid to "go to the powder room"; we are simply stalled at price negotiations.
With Audrey Hepburn, at the high end, receiving $50 for her services; how much would Marilyn fetch? If this were 1960, that may may have been a perfect water cooler question of the moment but, in fact, this 2010 and you need to keep your fookin' ass far away from the H.R. office.

Surprisingly, this mix works as a soundtrack for reading the original Truman Capote novella.