Happy 73rd Birthday to American actress, screenwriter, author, speaker and singer-songwriter SONIA MANZANO!. She is best known for playing Maria on Sesame Street from 1971 until her departure in 2015.
Happy 73rd Birthday to American actress, screenwriter, author, speaker and singer-songwriter SONIA MANZANO!. She is best known for playing Maria on Se
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retrozest.com/podcast - Happy 79th Birthday to American actor, comedian and writer ROSCOE ORMAN! He is best known for playing Gordon Robinson, one of the central human characters on Sesame Street. Orman joined the show in 1974, becoming the third actor to play Gordon (after Matt Robinson, 1969–72, and Hal Miller, 1972–74). His contract was not renewed in 2016, as part of Sesame's Workshop's retooling of the series, but the organization said that Orman would continue to represent it at public events. Orman is also an accomplished stage, film, and television actor; children's book writer; artist; and child advocate.
The Gordon They Fired
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From Sesame Street Test Show 1 (s00e135) “Exploration of D words, the number 2, animals, and newspapers" Aired on PBS: 1969.07.21 Garrett Saunders (full name Garrett Hobart Saunders, 1929-1984) was a New York stage actor who played the role of Gordon in the original test pilots of Sesame Street (screened for a week on a single Philadelphia station), and can be seen in the first test show included on the Sesame Street: Old School Volume 2 DVD set. The casting of Gordon was pivotal, but according to director Jon Stone, "At the last moment we cast an actor with whom no one was completely happy..." For the actual series, producer/writer Matt Robinson assumed the role. Garrett Saunders' contribution remained unknown until 2011, following several years of curiosity about the "lost" Gordon. The revelation was spurred by an online campaign by Sesame Workshop seeking information, resulting in identification from Saunders' relatives. The Case of the Missing Gordon (from Muppet Wiki) In 1969, the Children's Television Workshop produced an unaired test pilot for Sesame Street shown only to a focus group of children. The actor who played Gordon in the test pilot was uncredited and originally unknown (and awareness of his existence was first truly sparked following online posting and analysis of images from the test pilot). In celebration of the show's 40th anniversary Sesame Workshop reported that "we went through rooms full of Sesame Street archives – everything from clips and stills to letters and pay stubs - and came up empty." Sesame Workshop asked everyone they could think of (actors, producers and puppeteers who have been on the show since its inception, such as Joan Ganz Cooney, Bob McGrath, Loretta Long, and Caroll Spinney) but none were able to identify him. The official anniversary book Sesame Street: A Celebration - 40 Years of Life on the Street, featured a photo of the original Gordon with a caption revealing that Sesame Workshop didn’t know who he was. When Michael Davis wrote Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street, he interviewed many people involved with the show and was given access to thousands of pages of documents; he too was unable to find out anything about the original Gordon. In the book, Davis quotes Jon Stone as saying, "At the last moment we cast an actor with whom no one was completely happy..." Later, Davis describes him as "a person in the neighborhood that children would run away from, not to." In the fall of 2011, Sesame Workshop launched an Internet campaign via sesamestreet.org, entitled "The Case of the Missing Gordon", in an attempt to identify the original actor. The campaign, which launched on November 10, 2011 (the show's 42nd anniversary), asked for any clues, even if they were seemingly esoteric or mundane. Sesame Workshop shared the story across their social media accounts – including Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. They also posted the story to Reddit, where it quickly made the site's front page. Within hours, people were making suggestions, and within days, the story traveled across the web and across media. The story even made several local television news shows, one of which helped solve the mystery. The mystery was solved, identifying the actor as Garrett Hobart Saunders, an actor local to New York who, according to the Sesame Workshop report, "primarily performed in traveling theater." His nephew saw a news story about the search and contacted Saunders' two daughters. The latter quickly reached out to Sesame Workshop with the information about the mystery Gordon. Sesame Workshop shared the news on their social media sites on December 9, 2011 (a mere 29 days after their initial plea for help). The Gordon They Fired (from Muppet Songs) This article doesn't say so, but given Garrett's horrendous performance, it's pretty obvious that he was FIRED after filming this. Here are some of "The Lost" Gordon's magical moments: - Flubs (or just plain forgets) SO MANY lines - Encourages children to vandalize - Can't pronounce two D's or draw them in wet cement - Complains about the maintenance job - Whines about Bob taking the last newspaper - Refuses to build a bookcase for Susan - Refuses Bob's help because helpers mess him up - Creepy dancing with kids - Did you SEE how he was "fixing" that bookcase??? - Corrects children for feeding grapes wrong to a raccoon - Can't keep the tiny animal on camera - SO MANY creepy smiles!
Man! I had a Thang for her back in the day.
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