ToughPigs is deeply saddened to study of the current passing of producer and former CEO of Henson Associates David Lazer, who died final month on the age of 89.
Lazer’s first reference to the Muppets got here in 1965. Whereas as an government with IBM, he labored with Jim Henson to create the Muppet Assembly Movies. Not lengthy after, he joined Muppets, Inc., because it was then identified, the place he continued to supply the movies. As The Muppet Present started, Lazer grew to become the present’s information for the movie star visitor stars, ensuring that they’d be snug working throughout the distinctive units and performing necessities of the Muppets. He continued to supply over time, with credit that embody Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas, the primary three theatrical Muppet films, Of Muppets and Males, The Darkish Crystal, Labyrinth, and the compilation video Fozzie’s Muppet Scrapbook.
Within the wake of Henson’s tragic passing in 1990, Lazer got here out of semi-retirement to assist the corporate regain its footing with out its founder and chief, serving as Henson Associates CEO from Might to December 1990. Brian Henson as soon as stated in an interview about Lazer’s help: “David sort-of got here and lived with us for some time there simply to assist determine all of it out. I’d say that David Lazer was in all probability the most important affect, by means of that interval, to assist work out how we have been going to go ahead.”
For his service to the Muppets in good instances and unhealthy, Lazer’s influence proved essential to the historical past of the Muppets.
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by Matthew Soberman – [email protected]
