The story of Kermit's adventures as a young frog. Having spent all their lives in the swamp, Kermit and his friends Goggles and Croaker dream of heading out into the big wide world, but never gather enough courage to make it happen. When they finally do head out, chased by a mean old bullfrog called Blotch, Goggles and Croaker are quickly captured and sold for use in a school. It is now up to Kermit to locate his friends, find out what happens to frogs in schools, and then attempt a daring rescue.

The Muppets return for another puppet adventure. Gonzo begins to suspect that he comes from another planet, and when he confesses all on Miss Piggy's new talk show, a paranoid government operative decides to find out for sure - by kidnapping Gonzo. This leaves Kermit, Fozzie and the rest of the muppets with the task of rescuing their furry blue friend.

The Muppets return for another puppet adventure. Gonzo begins to suspect that he comes from another planet, and when he confesses all on Miss Piggy's new talk show, a paranoid government operative decides to find out for sure - by kidnapping Gonzo. This leaves Kermit, Fozzie and the rest of the muppets with the task of rescuing their furry blue friend.

Pop star Robbie Williams captured live in performance at the London Palladium. Williams performs a selection of songs from his latest album 'Swings Both Ways' (2013) alongside a number of swing favourites from the past. He is joined onstage by an orchestra and celebrity guests including Rufus Wainwright, Lily Allen and the Muppets Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog.

Formulaic phraseology presents the epitome of words worn and weathered by trial and the tests of time. Scholarship on weathered words is exceptionally diverse and interdisciplinary. This volume focuses on verbal art, which makes Oral-Formulaic Theory (OFT) a major point of reference. Yet weathered words are but a part of OFT, and OFT is only a part of scholarship on weathered words. Each of the eighteen essays gathered here brings particular aspects of formulaic language into focus. No volume on such a diverse topic can be all-encompassing, but the essays highlight aspects of the phenomenon that may be eclipsed elsewhere: they diverge not only in style, but sometimes even in how they choose to define "formula." As such, they offer overlapping frames that complement one another both in their convergences and their contrasts. While they view formulaicity from multifarious angles, they unite in a Picasso of perspectives on which the reader can reflect and draw insight.

Since prehistoric times, the Baltic Sea has functioned as a northern mare nostrum - a crucial nexus that has shaped the languages, folklore, religions, literature, technology, and identities of the Germanic, Finnic, Sami, Baltic, and Slavic peoples. This anthology explores the networks among those peoples. The contributions to Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region: Austmarr as a Northern mare nostrum, ca. 500-1500 ad address different aspects of cultural contacts around and across the Baltic from the perspectives of history, archaeology, linguistics, literary studies, religious studies, and folklore. The introduction offers a general overview of crosscultural contacts in the Baltic Sea region as a framework for contextualizing the volume's twelve chapters, organized in four sections. The first section concerns geographical conceptions as revealed in Old Norse and in classical texts through place names, terms of direction, and geographical descriptions. The second section discusses the movement of cultural goods and persons in connection with elite mobility, the slave trade, and rune-carving practice. The third section turns to the history of language contacts and influences, using examples of Finnic names in runic inscriptions and Low German loanwords in Finnish. The final section analyzes intercultural connections related to mythology and religion spanning Baltic, Finnic, Germanic, and Sami cultures. Together these diverse articles present a dynamic picture of this distinctive part of the world.

In this collection of entertaining, eye-opening interviews, today's hottest screenwriters discuss their craft. Screenwriting techniques, breaking into the business, the role of the writer in the filmmaking process, the current economic situation for screenwriters, what makes a screenplay work, and what sells a screenplay are among the subjects they discuss. Includes interviews with: Jeffrey Boam (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), Ronald Bass (Rainman), Jack Epps & Jim Cash (Top Gun), Gregory Widen (Highlander), Dan Pyne Doc Hollywood), Anna Hamilton Phelan (Gorillas in the Mist), Diane Frolov (Northern Exposure), Bill Bryan (Night Court), Fay Kanin (Teacher's Pet), Laurence Dworet (Outbreak), Dan O'Bannon (Alien), Joe Eszterhas (Basic Instinct) and CAA cofounders and agents Bill Haber and Roland Perkins.

This unusual screenwriting book takes up where William Froug's earlier books left off. It offers the reader a tapestry of short essays and in-depth interviews with top screenwriters. Froug's essays cover such topics as avoiding the obvious, the birth of ideas, the process of rewriting, dealing with writer's block, creativity and spontaneity, handling rejection, breaking the screenwriting "rules, " and episodic forms. The interview subjects are: Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption), Callie Khourie (Thelma & Louise), Eric Roth (Forrest Gump), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (A Room with a View), David Peoples (The Unforgiven), Janet People (12 Monkeys), Bo Goldman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Laurence Dworet (Outbreak), Stuart Kaminsky (Once Upon a Time in America), Larry Gelbart (Tootsie). Zen and the Art of Screenwriting is a fresh, insightful, informative and entertaining read for both novice and veteran screenwriters. William Froug is an Emmy-winning writer-producer whose television credits include "Playhouse 90" and "The Twilight Zone" He was named Producer of the Year in 1956 by the Producers Guild of America and received the Writers Guild of America's Valentine Davies Award in 1987. He is a professor emeritus at UCLA, where he founded the present Film and Television Writing Program.

One of the most respected screenwriting teachers distills his many years of teaching at USC and UCLA into an insightful and witty primer that is both fresh and timeless. Froug does not rehash the time-worn formulas promoted in most other screenwriting books. Instead, he presents a practical approach to following one's own muse. Abundant examples from numerous films, this popular book will take the reader from a first urge to write through the completion of a well-wrought script.