Street gang: the complete history of Sesame Street by Michael Davis

Author:Michael Davis
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: pop culture, Pop Arts, Performing Arts, History & Criticism, Dance, Television, Entertainment & Performing Arts, General, Children And Tv, Sesame Street (Television program), Television - History & Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Television Plays And Programs, Television programs for children, Entertainment & Performing Arts - Television Personalities
ISBN: 9780670019960
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2008-12-30T08:00:00+00:00

On the Sunday night before the Sesame Street premiere, Tim and Joan Cooney took in the movie Funny Girl at the Ziegfeld Theater, just to kill some time until the early edition of the New York Times rolled off the presses. “Watching Barbra Streisand bite her nails over Omar Sharif’s caddishness seemed better than staying home and biting my own nails while we waited for the Times review,” Cooney said.

A few days earlier, editors and reporters from New York’s daily newspapers and the newswire services had been invited to Sardi’s, the legendary celebrity watering hole, to screen the first episode of Sesame Street. A similar session for magazine journalists had been held two weeks prior.

The Cooneys walked to the Times building on West Forty-third Street and asked a delivery driver if the bulldog edition was already loaded in his truck. “No,” he said, and they went off to dinner. At 11:00 p.m. Tim bought the paper at a newsstand and hurried home with it.

George Gent’s review began as follows:

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