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Old Action Pensioners & Sesame Street

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Michael Caine plays an aging vigilante in Harry Brown, but which other old timers can still fight the good fight? Screenrush also take a look at our favourite famous faces who have spent time with the Muppets on Sesame Street…


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  1. Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street – Review | film reviews, interviews, features | BRWC

    […] Sesame Street was built on a foundation of progressive principles.  In the pre-Sesame Street era, children’s shows were mere advertising vehicles for toys and sugary snacks.  The emphasis was less on education and more on capturing a market.  Marketers were fully aware that there was something powerful in the synthesis of human memory, images, and jingles that drove the desires and behaviors of viewers, especially children.  Cooney and Stone—whose backgrounds were in television—set out to subvert the idea that television’s sole purpose was commercial.  As Cooney put it, she wanted to create television that “loved people and was not trying to sell to people.”  […]

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