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FILE - In this April 10, 2008 file photo, Michelle Hickey, a Muppet wrangler adjusts a book for Big Bird, voiced by Carroll Spinney, so he can read to Connor Scott during a taping of Sesame Street in New York. Spinney drops his fine-feathered obscurity (and emerges from his garbage-can fortress as Oscar the Grouch) for an enchanting film portrait, "I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story," which celebrates the "Sesame Street" puppet master who, at age 81, continues to breathe life into a pair of the world's best-loved personalities. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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