Being Big Bird is sweaty, physical work. Yet Caroll Spinney, who has worked on "Sesame Street" for nearly four decades playing both that character and Oscar the Grouch, has no wish to be anywhere ...

On the street, Caroll Spinney is a 74-year-old of modest proportions. On the job, transformed into Big Bird, he stands 8 feet 2 inches tall and is 6 years old.Being Big Bird is sweaty, physical work.

The camera then cuts to a shot of Big Bird sleeping. President Barack Obama has seized on Romney’s Big Bird comment to argue that his Republican challenger would crack down on beloved American ...

Never the conformist, Big Bird flew west for the winter. Or at least a chunk of it. “The snow back home was 3 1/2 feet deep when we left,” Caroll Spinney was saying by phone from Hawaii, where ...

NEW YORK — On the street, Caroll Spinney is a 74-year-old of modest proportions. On the job, transformed into Big Bird, he stands 8 feet 2 inches tall and is 6 years old. Being Big Bird is ...