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JasonW
January 17th, 2011, 07:02 PM
Muppets Took Manhattan, Now They're Taking LA
Friday, January 7, 2011, by Dakota Smith

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Details on the much-anticipated next Muppets movie are slowly leaking out--and we know everyone's excited. Via Geek Tyrant comes word the synopsis draws on development and preservation themes. Basically, the couple--the female is played by actress Amy Adams (pictured)--visit LA to discover a plot to drill for oil under the Muppet Theater, a move which would mean razing the Muppet Theater. In an effort to save the theater, all the Muppets are re-united ("Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management," for instance), for a fund-raiser to bring in $10 million for the theater. A tipster passes on word that the theater used in the film is in fact the S. Charles Lee-designed Los Angeles theater in downtown. But $10 million? Those furry hand puppets could buy half of Broadway with that much dough! The movie opens Nov. 23rd.

Allrounder
January 17th, 2011, 07:08 PM
Damn, Amy Adams is looking a bit rough these days

Bodger
January 17th, 2011, 07:21 PM
I went to the Nickleodeon company Christmas party at the Los Angeles Theatre a while back. What a place that is, fully restored and beautiful.

JasonW
January 17th, 2011, 08:14 PM
Damn, Amy Adams is looking a bit rough these days

:laugh3: I don't know what to say; I found it at another site.

afkama
January 17th, 2011, 08:32 PM
I went to the Nickleodeon company Christmas party at the Los Angeles Theatre a while back. What a place that is, fully restored and beautiful.


Agreed. LA has lost a lot of it's historic past and given the location of the Los Angeles Theater it's pretty amazing that it has survived.

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