Yeah, I had the same thought. That's totally what Jones was trying to reference! I agree with the review that it's purple prose (self-indulgent). I know what it's supposed to reference, but it itself isn't doing something fun/generous, merely meta. A wide shot of a river basin without music or panning is just a heap…

I just published a book about how Jim Henson made a career for himself as an artist-entrepreneur. If you want to check it out, it's called Make Art Make Money: Lessons from Jim Henson on Fueling your Creative Career.

Yeah, he totally would have used CGI. He was already using it via Pacific Data images (Dreamworks CGI studio) in the 80s. He considered all mediums to be in the "toolbox" for his work.

Totally agree with you - it's reasonable to have the mother of your kids and wife (estranged or no) at your deathbed. Now I'm totally speculating here, but maybe the two of them kvetched about their marital problems, and now Cooney feels like Henson should have made a clean break like she did?

The thought crossed my mind, too, but in Street Gang, Cooney says of Henson, "What we had was like a marriage. Lots of valuable time together and no sex." Cooney's marriage was "turbulent" Davis wrote. In the 70s, they were raising a foster child, her husband was an alcoholic, and in 1975, they separated, with Cooney…