"Henson was already a capitalist when he made “Business, Business.” And we could even conclude that the skit describes his own conversion from idealism to capitalism. In 1968, he had an agent who got him TV appearances on Ed Sullivan and freelance commercial gigs hawking products as unhippielike as IBM computers and Getty oil. Yet Jim Henson’s business wasn’t oil — it was art. While today, most artists are too timid to admit it, Henson freely referred to himself as an “artist,” and his agent went even further, calling him “artsy-craftsy.” via the fantastic Brain Pickings brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/09/19/make-art-make-money-jim-henson/
Posted on: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:38:00 +0000
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