Frank Oz, the iconic puppeteer and director, is persona non grata with Disney, he revealed in a recent interview with TheGuardian.
Known for his work on Muppets projects alongside the late, legendary Jim Henson, as well as for helming such classic films as LittleShopofHorrors and WhatAboutBob?, Oz said in an interview published Monday that he would love to work on another Muppets project, but Disney, which purchased the IP in 2004, won’t work with him.
“I’d love to do the Muppets again but Disney doesn’t want me, and Sesame Street hasn’t asked me for 10 years,” he said. “They don’t want me because I won’t follow orders and I won’t do the kind of Muppets they believe in.”
Oz voiced Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy, Sam Eagle, Animal and Marvin Suggs for several Muppets film and TV projects. On Sesame Street, he voiced Bert, Grover and Cookie Monster.
Oz said he does not watch current Muppets or Sesame Street projects. And he doesn’t pull punches as to why. “The soul’s not there,” he said. “The soul is what makes things grow and be funny. But I miss them and love them.”
Oz is steadfast when he talks about how, in his opinion, the Disney acquisition forever changed The Muppets.
“There’s an inability for corporate America to understand the value of something they bought. They never understood, with us, it’s not just about the puppets, it’s about the performers who love each other and have worked together for many years,” he said.
Oz did work with Disney when he returned to voice Yoda in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
A Disney rep could not be immediately reached for comment.
WESTFIELD, Ind. — Colts owner Jim Irsay has locked up head coach Frank Reich and general manager Chris Ballard with contract extensions through the 2026 season, the team announced Wednesday.
Ballard’s new deal has been complete since June, while Reich finalized his deal last week, a source told ESPN’s Chris Mortensen.
“We have as great a general manager-head coach combination as there is in the NFL, and I can’t tell you how proud I am to have them leading our franchise,” Irsay said in a statement. “I truly believe this football team is on the doorstep of great things, and that’s because of the culture both have cultivated in their time with the Horseshoe.”
Irsay, who constantly talks about winning multiple Super Bowls, gave an indication of Ballard’s and Reich’s contracts in March.
“I really believe that you will see a golden era develop as we go into this decade sitting here in 2021,” Irsay said at the time. “I believe it with all my heart and soul. There is good reason to believe it. You talk to people around the league and people that know, they are going to agree with what I’m saying when they look at Chris Ballard and Frank Reich and the expectations going into this decade that we have for both of them leading the team.”
Ballard replaced Ryan Grigson as general manager in February 2017. Reich was not even Ballard’s first choice to be head coach. Reich didn’t get in the mix for the job until Josh McDaniel reversed course and decided to return to New England as offensive coordinator after agreeing to be the Colts’ head coach in February 2018. Ballard acknowledged later that he made a mistake by not putting Reich on the list of his initial head-coaching candidates.
Reich and Ballard’s relationship has been strong because of their common vision on how a roster should be built while having the patience to see it through.
Rather than spend substantial money on free agents, Ballard has taken a patient approach to building the roster through the draft. Some of Ballard’s notable draft picks have been guard Quenton Nelson, linebacker Darius Leonard, right tackle Braden Smith and running back Jonathan Taylor. Nelson has been named an All-Pro in each of his first three seasons in the NFL, while Leonard has been named to the All-Pro team twice.
Ballard and Reich have endured almost nonstop issues at quarterback. It started with Andrew Luck missing the 2017 season with a shoulder injury, then surprising everybody by retiring two years ago this month; now Carson Wentz is out five to 12 weeks with a left foot injury.
The Colts are 32-32 and have made the playoffs in two of four seasons under Ballard. Reich is 28-20 in three seasons with the Colts.
Los Angeles prosecutors on Friday charged Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Frank Clark with one felony weapons violation stemming from his arrest on March 13 by the California Highway Patrol, according to a report in The Kansas City Star.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office told The Star on Friday that it had charged the 28-year-old Clark with one felony count of possession of an assault weapon. Clark was arrested in March, along with another man, when officers said they found two loaded firearms in their vehicle after a traffic stop, the paper reported, citing California Highway Patrol records.
Clark was also arrested last month in Los Angeles in a separate incident in which police officers allegedly saw a submachine gun in his car, but that remains under investigation. Clark’s attorney, Alex Spiro, said at the time of his arrest on suspicion of having a concealed firearm in a vehicle that the gun belonged to Clark’s bodyguard.
According to The Star, Clark is scheduled to be arraigned for the charge stemming from the March arrest on July 14.
If convicted, Clark could face up to three years in prison.
A native of Los Angeles, Clark played his first four NFL seasons with the Seattle Seahawks before being traded to Kansas City in 2019. He was part of the Chiefs’ Super Bowl-winning team in the 2019 season and has 49 sacks in 91 career games plus eight sacks in two postseasons with Kansas City. He has twice been named to the Pro Bowl since joining the Chiefs.
Clark was previously arrested in 2014 on suspicion of domestic violence over an incident at an Ohio hotel, leading to his removal from the University of Michigan team. He eventually pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct.
The Detroit Lions and Frank Ragnow have agreed to a four-year, $54 million contract extension that makes him the highest-paid center in the NFL, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Ragnow, 24, is entering his fourth NFL season after being drafted in the first round out of Arkansas in 2018. He has started all 45 games he has appeared in and earned his first Pro Bowl berth last season.
He had been under contract for two more seasons after the Lions exercised their fifth-year option on his deal last week.
After the NFL draft last weekend, Lions general manager Brad Holmes called reaching a long-term deal with Ragnow “extremely important.”
“He is a foundational piece because Frank is a guy that plays the game the right way,” Holmes said. “He’s everything that we look for and what we want as a Lion.”
The Lions’ front office views Ragnow as an important long-term piece as the team looks to shift its culture. This deal aligns with the Lions’ latest draft picks and offseason decisions as they try to build for the future, including drafting Oregon offensive tackle Penei Sewell and adding veteran players to surround new quarterback Jared Goff such as free-agent tight end Darren Fells, who spent the past two seasons with the Houston Texans.
Ragnow ranked fourth among qualifying centers in run block win rate and seventh in pass block win rate last season, according to ESPN Stats & Information.
He is the second first-round pick from the 2018 draft to sign a long-term extension, joining Las Vegas Raiders left tackle Kolton Miller.
“I’ll never forget when it first got announced that I got the job — Frank, he reached out immediately,” Holmes said. “I told him, I said, ‘Man, huge fan of you. You play the game the right way.'”
He is now being rewarded.
ESPN’s Eric Woodyard and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – The former Florida state senator accused of masterminding and funding a sham candidate to manipulate voters last November is now facing charges of felony campaign finance crimes.
Frank Artiles was booked into Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Thursday, a day after his Palmetto Bay home was raided.
Shill candidate Alex Rodriguez was also booked Thursday morning.
Their charges (all third-degree felonies) include:
Making or receiving campaign contributions over or in excess of limits
Conspiracy to make or receive two or more campaign contributions over or in excess of limits
False swearing in connection with voting or elections
Photos and charges filed against Frank Artiles and Alex Rodriguez. (Courtesy of Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office)
According to a warrant obtained by Local 10 News, investigators say Artiles offered to pay Rodriguez $50,000 — half during the election and half afterward — for Rodriguez to enter November’s District 37 state senate race, where he shared a last name with the incumbent Democrat candidate Jose Javier Rodriguez.
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Republican challenger Ileana Garcia ultimately defeated Jose Javier Rodriguez by just 32 votes for that seat. The plant candidate Alex Rodriguez, a deep-in-debt machinery rep who actually lived two counties away from the district, got over 6,000 votes despite not actually campaigning, nor having actual political aspirations.
“Frank Artiles and his co-conspirators knew they couldn’t beat Jose Javier Rodriguez in a fair election so they rigged it,” Alex Rodriguez’s lawyer William Barzee said in a statement. “Artiles cynically targeted and used a vulnerable ‘friend’ with a great name to run in the race in order to confuse voters and steal the election. Alex Rodriguez deeply regrets allowing himself to be used in this way and hopes that by coming forth with the truth he can help to right these wrongs.”
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Local 10 News cameras captured Artiles showing up to jail along with his attorney to surrender to authorities shortly after 11 a.m. Thursday.
The warrant shows that the investigation began Nov. 11, one day after a Local 10 News story outlined evidence that some state senate candidates in the November election were plants funded by dark money.
Alex Rodriguez, 55, told investigators that Artiles, 47, contacted him on May 15, 2020, through Facebook Messenger. They had known each other for over 20 years but hadn’t spoken for about a year.
Rodriguez was living in Boca Raton, far from District 37 in Miami-Dade, but he still owned a home in Palmetto Bay. According to the warrant, the two met at Artiles’ Palmetto Bay home that afternoon where Artiles outlined the scheme for Rodriguez to enter the race to confuse voters and siphon votes from the Democratic candidate.
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The warrant shows text message communications between the two.
In a later in-person meeting, investigators allege that Artiles instructed Rodriguez how to fill out a form needed for candidacy, which included Rodriguez using his Palmetto Bay address despite both knowing he didn’t actually live there.
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Artiles also guided Rodriguez to officially change his party affiliation from Republican to no party, authorities say.
The warrant also outlines multiple instances of money being paid by Artiles to Rodriguez, including receipts.
In total, investigators found that $44,708.03 was paid by Artiles to Rodriguez “for changing his party affiliation, qualifying as an independent candidate for Senate Seat 37, and attempting to [siphon] votes from the incumbent candidate.”
Masterminding a sham candidate is not illegal, but financing one is.
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A news conference is set for 2:30 p.m. when Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, acting City of Miami Police Chief Ron Papier and members of the State Attorney’s Office Public Corruption Task Force will discuss the case.
Investigators served a warrant at Artiles’ home Wednesday, seizing electronics including his cell phone and computer, and the contents of a safe.
Artiles, now a lobbyist, resigned his state senate seat in 2017 after using a racial slur among colleagues and amid reports that a former Hooters calendar girl and a Playboy model with no political experience were hired as “consultants.”
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There is no evidence that suggests Garcia, who was elected to the District 37 seat, was involved or had any knowledge of the shill being planted in the race.
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PALMETTO BAY, Fla. – A search warrant was executed Wednesday morning at the home of former Florida Sen. Frank Artiles as part of the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office’s investigation into whether he illegally funded a planted candidate in the November election.
Sources say the warrant involves the search of his electronics, including his cell phone and computer, and the contents of a safe in Artiles’ Palmetto Bay house.
Investigators are looking for evidence of Artiles’ possible communication with Alex Rodriguez, a shill candidate in the District 37 Florida Senate race, and whether there is proof Artiles illegally paid for and paid off the sham candidate.
News of the raid, first reported by Local 10 News, dropped as a bombshell in Tallahassee.
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Rodriguez, a third-party candidate in that race, has the same last name as the Democratic incumbent Jose Javier Rodriguez, who narrowly lost to Republican challenger Ileana Garcia.
A Local 10 News investigation shortly after the election found that Alex Rodriguez, a deep-in-debt machinery rep in Boca Raton, falsified his address on his campaign filing form, and that he didn’t fundraise or campaign for the position he was on the ballot for. He also lied to Local 10 News in November when we asked him to explain his curious no-show, no-party campaign and suspicious campaign finance records.
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Masterminding a sham candidate is not illegal, but financing one is.
Prosecutors have been working the case for months, following the money and communications between Artiles and Alex Rodriguez.
They may have been done in by their digital footprints. Rodriguez was keeping his apparent handler Artiles informed of his progress as a candidate.
And sudden changes to his campaign donor list trace back to Artiles’ home IP address.
Artiles, now a lobbyist, resigned his state Senate seat in 2017 after using a racial slur among colleagues and amid reports that a former Hooters calendar girl and a Playboy model with no political experience were hired as “consultants.”
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The raid at Artiles’ home wrapped up before noon, and the former state senator was spotted inside the house with his attorney.
Neither had a comment Wednesday.
Garcia won the District 37 race by just 32 votes over Jose Javier Rodriguez. Shill candidate Alex Rodriguez got over 6,000 votes.
There is no evidence that suggests Garcia was involved or had any knowledge of the shill being planted in the race.
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Carson Wentz will wear a number other than 11 with the Colts. Receiver Michael Pittman Jr. wore the number as a rookie in 2020 and doesn’t plan on giving it up in 2021, no matter what the team’s new quarterback offers.
Colts coach Frank Reich is not surprised or concerned about Pittman declining to give up the number to Wentz once the team’s trade for the quarterback becomes official next month.
“No, I wasn’t surprised at all,” Reich said, via Kevin Bowen of 107.5 The Fan. “I would have been shocked (if Pittman had given up his number). Players don’t like to give up numbers easily. I think Michael looks good in that number and he played good in that number. I’m excited that he’s keeping that number.”
Pittman, a second-round choice, made 40 catches for 503 yards and a touchdown last season.
Wentz, who wore No. 11 at North Dakota State and for five seasons in Philadelphia, has not announced what number he will wear with the Colts.