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- BUSINESS, Page 59Business NotesENTERTAINMENTEven Kermit Has His Price
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- Move it on over, Mickey. Watch your back, Dumbo. A new clan
- is moving into the Walt Disney menagerie: the Muppets. Last
- week Disney agreed to buy Henson Associates, which owns such
- characters as Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear.
- Disney did not disclose the price, but analysts put it at more
- than $100 million. Disney would get rights to most Muppets,
- which will appear in the Magic Kingdom's theme parks, movies and
- TV specials. (Big Bird and the other characters that Muppeteer
- Jim Henson created for the Sesame Street TV show remain the
- property of Children's Television Workshop.) Henson will become
- a Disney consultant. Michael Eisner, Disney's chairman, called
- the deal "a business association made in family-entertainment
- heaven."
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