NEW YORK — There’s something circular about Matt Vogel’s career, which is perfectly appropriate for the star of an educational children’s show. As a boy, he watched Big Bird on TV. As an ...

Indeed, Big Bird — that towering, yellow-feathered 6-year-old — has been calling Sesame Street home for four decades, ever since the show premiered on Nov. 10, 1969.

He recites Big Bird's lines as his upraised right hand supports the head and animates its mouth and eyes. "The head weighs about 4 1/2 pounds," reports Spinney. "One fellow says, 'That's no big ...

One late November afternoon in 1969, a little girl named Sally was touring her new neighborhood along Sesame Street.She met Mr. Hooper, the manager of the corner store. She met a nice lady named ...

That's what he decides on the "Sesame Street" season opener. A rapping real estate agent pitches him on migrating to a new habitat ("habitat," the episode's "Word on the Street"). After sizing up ...

Big Bird — that towering, yellow 6-year-old — has been calling “Sesame Street” home ever since the show premiered on Nov. 10, 1969. And as it marks its 40th anniversary, he remains an ...

I began watching Sesame Street before I could even pronounce the show's title. So let me tell you: It is very, very surreal to have a conversation with Big Bird. Of course, I didn't actually talk ...

TO THE NAKED EYE, IT MAY APPEAR THAT: ... The committee that owns Sesame Street didn't let Big Bird go, explaining that if Big Bird went to one charity fund-raiser he would be obligated to go to ...

NEW YORK — On the street, Caroll Spinney is a 74-year-old of modest proportions. On the job, transformed into Big Bird, he stands 8 feet 2 inches tall and is 6 years old. Being Big Bird is ...

But, of course, on Sesame Street, Big Bird is the big game, arguably the show’s most iconic character. Landing the part has made Vogel, who later married the girlfriend who showed him the ...

Big Bird is leaving Sesame Street!That's what he decides on the "Sesame Street" season opener. A rapping real-estate agent pitches him on migrating to a new habitat ("habitat," the episode's "Word ...

Big Bird - that towering, yellow-feathered 6-year-old - has been calling Sesame Street home for four decades, ever since the show premiered on Nov. 10, 1969. Big Bird's still huge as 'Sesame ...