Their father, Jon, a grade 7 social studies and English language arts educator at Collins Middle School, was relaxing on the sofa reading “The Wisdom of Big Bird” by Caroll Spinney, with one of the ...

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Caroll Spinney, who gave Big Bird his warmth and Oscar the Grouch his growl for nearly 50 years on “Sesame Street,” died Sunday at the age of 85 at his home in Connecticut, according to the ...

'Sesame Street' puppeteer Caroll Spinney joins Andy Greenwald to talk about his 46 years as Big Bird and Oscar as well as the new documentary about his life.

A segment about an incident where a caretaker of the Spinney property hit a jogger with his car and hid the body in a shed without the Spinney's knowledge was removed from the film when it was ...