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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 6 december 2019
Chrissy Teigen, Kim Raver and more cheer ‘Sesame Street’

Associated Press puppets out of foam, ping
NEW YORK (AP) — You can pong balls for eyes and
never be too old for “Ses- things. I think there’s some-
ame Street.” The beloved thing so special about
children’s series premiered making inanimate objects
50 years ago this month animate and when they
and is still a favorite among can teach kids globally
both kids and adults. about not only letters and
Some celebrities share numbers and vowels but
their thoughts on seeing about sharing and respon-
the show — and some of sibility, that’s something
being on the show. that will endure for 50 more
“’Sesame Street’ is, I think, years realistically.” — Actor
the purest form of enter- Neil Patrick Harris.
tainment that has ever “’Sesame Street’ just has
come through the tele- always pushed the enve-
vision screens. I grew up lope and pushed us to look
watching ‘Sesame Street.’ at ourselves in a different
Seeing them grow along way and each other in a
with the changing times, This Jan. 6, 2019 file photo shows actress-comedian Carol Burnett at the 76th annual Golden Globe compassionate way.
along with the impact that Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. And they did it with humor
they’ve made on children Associated Press and they did it in a way
who were going through that made it very palat-
different struggles, whether just nothing lights up a kid’s solutely brilliant because ing it on television, I was able. So I think that’s the
it was their parents divorc- face like seeing Elmo.” — you forgot that they were part of it, so that to me was genius of the show and
ing or autism — they’ve TV personality Chrissy Tei- there. They just knew how really, I think, the beginning why it’s touched so many
adapted to so many differ- gen. to do it.” — Comedy icon of this very creative world.” for so long.” — Actor/direc-
ent situations, but they’ve “I forgot that there were Carol Burnett, who ap- — Actress Kim Raver, a for- tor Emilio Estevez.
always had the purest people there. They were peared in the first broad- mer child “Sesame Street” “I definitely watched it as a
heart with it. ‘Sesame so real. I really felt like I was cast and returned fre- cast member. kid. I think it’s not just enter-
Street’ actually makes me dealing with these critters quently. “Jim Henson’s been one of tainment, you know? I think
emotional with how car- and these creatures that “I learned how to count on my idols ever since I was a there’s some lessons to
ing and loving and pure were created so beauti- ‘Sesame Street.’ I learned little kid. I still have a work- learn behind it and I think
and kind they’ve been fully. the alphabet. shop down in my basement as humans, we’re drawn to
throughout the years. It’s The puppeteers were ab- While people were watch- right now where I make that. q

New Orleans is home to mystical academy in new Marvel comic

By KEVIN McGILL tory and folklore about
Associated Press magic and the mystic
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The arts and the dark arts and
city known for 19th cen- things like that that kind
tury Voodoo queen Marie of surround the mythos
Laveau and for the tarot of New Orleans,” Young
card readers who tell for- said. “Having just gone
tunes in its historic French there myself for my 40th, I
Quarter is about to play thought that would be a
host to a different kind of great place to set it. And
sorcerer — at least in the that it would be awesome
Marvel comics universe. just to go back again and
Marvel announced plans do a nice little research
Thursday to debut a new trip.”
comic book, “Strange Marvel editors accom-
Academy,” in March. De- panied Young on a re-
scribed as a supernatu- turn trip. Visits to a French
ral coming-of-age saga, Quarter Voodoo mu-
it’s set at a New Orleans seum, a 280-year-old
school for teenagers from candle-lit bar on Bourbon
across the universe who Street, courtyards with
have a variety of mystical rusty gates and untamed
powers. greenery — all will inform
The youngsters, facing In this June 2019 photo provided by Marvel Comics, Marvel writer Skottie Young, assistant editors the story lines and art of
typical adolescent anxi- Danny Khazem and Kathleen Wisneski, and executive editor Nick Lowe sit inside the historic the new publication.
Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
eties and atypical crea- Associated Press Young and said the series
tures from other dimen- is aimed at a broad com-
sions, will be new charac- tor Strange. terview this week, Young Young, however, had re- ic book audience but also
ters. But they’ll be under Veteran Marvel writer and said he and co-workers first cently visited New Orleans will appeal to young adult
the tutelage of some Mar- artist Skottie Young is work- thought about setting the for the first time, celebrat- readers who in the past
vel stalwarts, including ing with longtime Marvel story in New York, where ing his 40th birthday. might have been fans of
the school’s flamboyant artist Humberto Ramos the Doctor Strange char- “It just kind of occurred to the Harry Potter novels or
caped namesake, Doc- on the project. In an in- acter resides. me that there’s a nice his- similar works.q