Ron Howard On His Revelatory Jim Henson Doc ‘Idea Man’: “I Wanted To Get To The Bottom Of What Made Him Tick” – Contenders TV: Doc + Unscripted

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Ron Howard On His Revelatory Jim Henson Doc ‘Idea Man’: “I Wanted To Get To The Bottom Of What Made Him Tick” – Contenders TV: Doc + Unscripted

Ron Howard’s Cannes-bound documentary Jim Henson Idea Man reveals a man of inexhaustible creativity – a puppeteer, filmmaker, artist, performer and inventor. The Muppets were just one part of Jim Henson’s astonishing body of work. “I had met him briefly. I knew people who knew him very well, who held him in such high esteem. He was a very modest guy,” Howard noted during an appearance at Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscript…