In this 2008 file photo, Michelle Hickey, a Muppet wrangler adjusts a book for Big Bird, ... The Caroll Spinney Story,” which celebrates this “Sesame Street” puppet master who, ...

It looks like Big Bird and Elmo have some friends who are down to demonstrate. Supporters of public funding for PBS have planned a “Million Puppet March” for D.C. on November 3rd. The event on ...

That’s why Romney’s Big Bird comment last month struck so many as off-key. It was an echo of a long-forgotten and largely irrelevant culture war. Photograph by PRNewsFoto/Disney D23/AP.

Spinney got his big break at a puppet convention in Utah. Henson, already famous for The Muppets, was in attendance. He invited Spinney to come work for him in New York.

Big Bird star Caroll Spinney tells all! — -- After more than 46 years as Big Bird, Caroll Spinney is telling his long and illustrious story in "I Am Big Bird," a documentary hitting theaters ...

Caroll Spinney, the man who played “Sesame Street” icon Big Bird for 50 years, died on Sunday at his Connecticut home at the age of 85. His passing was announced by Sesame Workshop.

The Big Bird puppet, however, is 8 feet 2 inches (248 centimeters) tall — which is a very tight fit aboard a spaceship. Current NASA astronaut requirements don't allow astronauts to exceed 75 ...

Never the conformist, Big Bird flew west for the winter. Or at least a chunk of it. “The snow back home was 3 1/2 feet deep when we left,” Caroll Spinney was saying by phone from Hawaii, where ...

In this 2008 file photo, Michelle Hickey, a Muppet wrangler adjusts a book for Big Bird, ... The Caroll Spinney Story,” which celebrates this “Sesame Street” puppet master who, ...