Decades before Frank Oz was bringing Miss Piggy and Yoda to life, his parents, Mike and Frances Oznowicz, were creating puppets of their own, and using puppetry as a means of parody and resistance ...

To briefly break kayfabe, Oz was Miss Piggy’s original puppeteer. He also has performed Yoda and Fozzie Bear, before pivoting to directing films like Little Shop of Horrors and 2004’s The ...

To briefly break kayfabe, Oz was Miss Piggy’s original puppeteer. He also has performed Yoda and Fozzie Bear, before pivoting to directing films like Little Shop of Horrors and 2004’s The ...

The puppet stands 20 inches tall, hand-painted and carved out of wood, its uniform tattered and torn. But for all it has endured over more than 80 years — buried in a backyard in Belgium at the ...

The Miss Piggy Lady Liberty fountain has been removed from Muppets Courtyard at Disney's Hollywood Studios as the space ...

Alas, Miss Piggy was not nominated. Neither was Franz Oz. The following year, “Star Wars” creator George Lucas lobbied to get Oz an Oscar nomination for performing Yoda, the Jedi master, in ...

Aerial images posted by bioreconstruct confirm the removal of the Miss Piggy Lady Liberty fountain in Disney's Hollywood ...

Miss Piggy burst into celebrity as the star of The Muppet Show, a huge TV hit that is aired in 106 countries and seen every week by 260 million viewers — among them Sophia Loren and the prime ...