Yesterday, the world learned the sad news that the great Texas character actor, Dabney Coleman, had passed away at the age of 93.
Today’s scene that I love comes from 1984’s The Muppets Take Manhattan. In this scene, the Muppets try to sell Coleman on their idea for a musical. Coleman, meanwhile, does his best to cheat the Muppets out of all of their money. It takes a truly great actor to give a convincing performance while acting opposite a very large group of puppets.
(I mean, we all know Kermit’s real but I’m pretty sure that the rest of them are puppets….)