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Theater & Performance

Puppet King

The Baby from Labyrinth Is All Grown Up—and Making Movies

A.L. AdamsJune 18, 2014 4:00 pmJuly 12, 2022 7:56 pm

Toby Froud crawled through the Labyrinth as a baby, and grew up to produce his own puppet film.

General

Adventure Time

Fantasy—Once the Realm of the Nerdiest of Nerds—Is Going Mainstream.

Erik HenriksenMay 15, 2013 4:00 amJuly 12, 2022 7:50 pm

Fantasy—once the realm of the nerdiest of nerds—is going mainstream.

Movies & TV

I’m Staying Home

Starman: Bowie on Film

Ned LannamannAugust 25, 2011 4:00 amJuly 12, 2022 7:42 pm

FOR AN EMBARRASSINGLY large number of us, the first David Bowie song we ever heard was “Underground,” the opening song to Labyrinth. That’s not exactly an auspicious window into Bowie’s unparalleled musical legacy. As Jareth the Goblin King, Bowie probably made a more lasting impression in Jim Henson’s 1986 puppet fantasy for his glass orb […]