Sesame Street is a long-running American children's television series created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett.

Sesame Street was conceived in 1966 during discussions between television producer Joan Ganz Cooney and Carnegie Foundation vice president Lloyd Morrisett.

Producer Joan Ganz Cooney has stated, " Without research, there would be no Sesame Street ".

Shortly after the CTW was created in 1968, Joan Ganz Cooney was named its first executive director.

** Cooney, Joan Ganz, " Foreword ", pp. xi – xiv.

Founded by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett in 1968 to produce Sesame Street, the company, currently run by President and CEO H. Melvin Ming, has since produced many other shows and a variety of multimedia content.

* Joan Ganz Cooney, Co Founder

* Interview with Sesame Workshop CEO & President Gary Knell by Scott Traylor of 360KID with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, Oct 2009

* 2010: Joan Ganz Cooney

It included interviews with cast members, voice talent, and creator-producer Joan Ganz Cooney.

He also says " Hi, Mom " when a credit appears for Joan Ganz Cooney, creator of Sesame Street.

The show was conceived in 1966 during discussions between television producer Joan Ganz Cooney and Carnegie Corporation vice president Lloyd Morrisett.

Producer Joan Ganz Cooney called children's programming a " wasteland ", and she was not alone in her criticism.

** Cooney, Joan Ganz, " Foreword ", pp. xi – xiv.

Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, this documentary includes archival footage, interviews with Frank Oz, Rosie O ' Donnell, Cheryl Henson, Joan Ganz Cooney, Dick Cavett and others, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at Sesame Street and the Jim Henson Workshop.

Joan Ganz Cooney ( born Joan Ganz ; November 30, 1929 ) is an American television producer.

In 2007, the Sesame Workshop founded The Joan Ganz Cooney Center, named in her honor.

Joan Ganz was born on November 30, 1929 in Phoenix, Arizona to Sylvan Ganz, a banker who became president of the First National Bank of Arizona, and Pauline ( née Reddon ), a homemaker.

Joan Ganz was the youngest of three siblings.

After graduating in 1951, Joan Ganz moved to Washington, D. C., where she worked as a clerk and typist at the State Department.

** Joan Cooney & Thomas Z. Shepard ( producers ) for Sesame Street performed by The Muppets

Joan Cooney credited him, whom Davis called " a radical liberal ", for making her into a feminist, and later said that he was very supportive and encouraging.

Les Brown of Variety Magazine called Cooney " St. Joan ".

In 1969, Tim and Joan Cooney, who were childless, became " de factor foster parents to an inner-city black child " whom Tim Cooney met while working in Harlem for a civil rights organization.

Due to Tim Cooney's long history of alcoholism, he was unable to support himself, so Joan Cooney paid him alimony until his death in 1999.

In addition to those mentioned above, others were conductors Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Bernstein, Eugen Jochum, Erich Kleiber, Serge Koussevitzky, Pierre Monteux, André Previn and Leopold Stokowski, and soloists Janet Baker, Dennis Brain, Alfred Brendel, Roberto Carnevale, Pablo Casals, Aldo Ciccolini, Clifford Curzon, Victoria de los Ángeles, Jacqueline du Pré, Kirsten Flagstad, Beniamino Gigli, Emil Gilels, Jascha Heifetz, Wilhelm Kempff, Fritz Kreisler, Julian Lloyd Webber, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, David Oistrakh, Luciano Pavarotti, Maurizio Pollini, Leontyne Price, Arthur Rubinstein, Elisabeth Schumann, Rudolf Serkin, Joan Sutherland, Richard Tauber and Eva Turner.

It also stars Mark Dacascos, Emily Lloyd, Jaimz Woolvett, Frederic Forrest, Joan Jett and Linnea Quigley ( cameo ).

Other notable guest stars include: a young Willie Aames, Sharon Acker, Lou Antonio, Anne Baxter, Lloyd Bochner, Brooke Bundy, Cathy Lee Crosby, William Daniels, Burr DeBenning, former Monkee Micky Dolenz, Andrew Duggan, Shelley Duvall, Dana Elcar, Jason Evers, Mike Farrell, Joan Fontaine, Bert Freed, future Starsky and Hutch star Paul Michael Glaser, Clu Gulager, Peter Haskell, Robert Hays, David Hedison, Kim Hunter, David Janssen, Claudia Jennings, L. Q.

In 1937 she starred opposite Dick Powell and Joan Blondell in the Academy Award nominated Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley directed musical comedy Gold Diggers of 1937.

Rushmore ; Other Half ; Phoenix ; Lothar & the Hand People ; Commander Cody ; Cleveland Wrecking Company ; Rhythm Dukes ; AB Skhy Blues Band ; Frumious Bandersnatch ; Eighth Penny Matter ; Jimmerfield Legend ; South Side Sound ; Super Ball ; Solid Muldoon ; Box Top ; and jazz artists Sun Ra and San Francisco's own John Handy ; Charles Lloyd ; the Jerry Hahn Brotherhood ; and folksters Joan Baez ; Dave Van Ronk ; Jim Kweskin Jug Band ; Taj Mahal ; Tim Buckley and Flatt & Scruggs.

Among the artists on the show were Petula Clark, Jim Dale, Johnny Dankworth, Terry Dene, Lonnie Donegan, Russ Hamilton, Cleo Laine, Joan Regan, Finlay Currie, Freddie Mills, Jimmy Lloyd, Marty Wilde and Tommy Steele.

After the session, Harry asks his ex-wife Joan ( Kirstie Alley ) if he can take their son Hilliard ( Eric Lloyd ) to the ceremony.

Coulthard's composition students included Canadian composers Chan Ka Nin, Michael Conway Baker, Sylvia Rickard, Ernst Schneider, Robert Knox, Jean Ethridge, Joan Hansen, David Gordon Duke, Lloyd Burritt and Frederick Schipizky.

Lloyd Abbott and his distant wife, Joan, are the parents of three beautiful daughters, Alice, Eleanor and Pamela.

The piece earned enough praise so that the impresario George Edwardes commissioned the two to write another burlesque, together with the comic actor John Lloyd Shine, called Joan of Arc.

Among his associates were Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Bror Hjorth and Balthus.

" it was felt within the service that officers were likely to be questioned about the true political affiliation of Mrs. Joan Ruddock, who became chair of CND in 1983.

These albums ( except the last ) were also known for using contemporary paintings as cover art, featuring the work of Joan Miró on Time Further Out, Franz Kline on Time in Outer Space, and Sam Francis on Time Changes.

More successful were A Woman's Face ( 1941 ) with Joan Crawford and Gaslight ( 1944 ) with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer.

Dozens of other cultural and popular icons got their start in the Village's nightclub, theater, and coffeehouse scene during the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, notably besides Bob Dylan, there were Jimi Hendrix, Barbra Streisand, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Bette Midler, The Lovin ' Spoonful, Simon & Garfunkel, Liza Minnelli, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Eric Andersen, Joan Baez, The Velvet Underground, The Kingston Trio, Carly Simon, Richie Havens, Maria Muldaur, Tom Paxton, Janis Ian, Phil Ochs, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, and Nina Simone among others.

The preliminaries were not yet finished when a noisy mob gathered with the purpose of saving him ; the king's mother, Joan of Kent, also took up his cause.

Their daughter Helen Julia Hay, a writer and poet, married Payne Whitney of the influential Whitney family ; their children were U. S. ambassador John Hay Whitney and Joan Whitney Payson.

Saint Joan of Arc-whose Catholic piety and orthodoxy are attested in numerous documents ( such as the letter she dictated threatening to lead a crusade against the Hussites ), and who was executed by the English for what even the tribunal members later admitted were political reasons-was rewritten as a pagan martyr by Murray.

Eventually, this protectiveness led to her consulting an astrologer, Joan Quigley, who offered insight on which days were " good ", " neutral ", or should be avoided, which influenced her husband's White House schedule.

Rosemary and Darroll Pardoe, authors of The Female Pope: The Mystery of Pope Joan, theorize that if a female pope did exist, a more plausible time frame is 1086 and 1108, when there were several Antipopes ; during this time the reign of the legitimate Popes Victor III, Urban II, and Paschal II was not always established in Rome, since the city was occupied by Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and later sacked by the Normans.

Michael Denison ( Algernon ), Michael Redgrave ( Jack ), Dame Edith Evans ( Lady Bracknell ), Dorothy Tutin ( Cecily ), Joan Greenwood ( Gwendolen ), and Margaret Rutherford ( Miss Prism ) were among the cast.

Diana was supposedly involved in Satanic freemasonry, but was redeemed when one day she professed admiration for Joan of Arc, at whose name the demons were put to flight.

They released only one album, 1979's ( GI ) ( produced by Joan Jett ) and were featured the following year in Penelope Spheeris ' documentary film The Decline of Western Civilization, which chronicled the Los Angeles punk movement.

In 2009 Tracy Chevalier wrote a historical novel entitled, Remarkable Creatures, in which Anning and Elizabeth Philpot were the main characters, and another historical novel about Anning, Curiosity by Joan Thomas, was published in March 2010.

After World War II, a small number of technically able sopranos, the most notable of whom were first Maria Callas ( with performances from 1952 and especially those at La Scala and Berlin in 1954 / 55 under Herbert von Karajan ) and then Dame Joan Sutherland ( with her 1959 performances at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in 1959, which were repeated in 1960 ), revived the opera in all of its original tragic glory.

" Also present at the sessions were Joan Jett, Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, and Tommy Ramone of The Ramones.

His imitations were imitated by other female impersonators, and his roles included Bette Davis, Mae West, Tallulah Bankhead, Gloria Swanson, Carol Channing, Katharine Hepburn, and Joan Crawford, which became the drag queen canon.

Joan Acocella reports that 40, 000 cases were diagnosed from 1985 to 1995.

Joan Crawford and Gladys George were offered roles, but George lost her role when the director decided he wanted to cast the female roles against type while Crawford's demands to be filmed by her own cameraman led to the studio taking a chance on Deborah Kerr, also playing against type.

Despite the example set by most of his recent predecessors, Henry and his second wife, Joan of Navarre, Queen of England, were buried not at Westminster Abbey but at Canterbury Cathedral, on the north side of Trinity Chapel and directly adjacent to the shrine of St Thomas Becket.

Lady Alice's family, the Neville's, were already established at court being descendants of John of Gaunt's daughter Lady Joan Beaufort and her second husband, Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmoreland.

Her parents were King Philip IV of France and Queen Joan I of Navarre ; her brothers Louis, Philip and Charles became kings of France.

The conventional 20th-century view has been that Edward did die at Berkeley Castle, either murdered on Isabella's orders or of ill-health brought on by his captivity, and that subsequent accounts of his survival were simply rumours, similar to those that surrounded Joan of Arc and other near contemporaries after their deaths.