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June 25, 2008
Recently Dead
Kermit Love, the costume designer who helped Jim Henson create Big Bird and other Sesame Street characters, as well as Snuggle the fabric-softener spokesbear, died Saturday from heart failure in Poughkeepsie, New York, said his longtime partner Christopher Lyall. (Hmm, so Big Bird IS gay!) He was 91. Love was also a designer for some of ballet's most prominent choreographers, including Twyla Tharp, Agnes de Mille, Jerome Robbins, and George Balanchine. And in case you're now wondering, Love always maintained the frog wasn't named after him, which makes a much more interesting story than saying it was. (AP)
