Talk:Bob and Ray

Material from 2013 biography
This quote is from Bob and Ray: Keener Than Most Persons, a 2013 biography written by David Pollock and published by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books. The quote is from pg 135-136, in a chapter about Bob and Ray's advertising agency, Goulding-Elliott-Graham Productions, in the late 1950s.

"One day, a young Jim Henson and his wife came by with a collection of their puppets. 'I thought they were good,' [Ed] Graham remembered, 'but I never liked puppets and neither did B&R. Jim found work shortly afterwards.'

"Sometime later, one of Henson's TV guest shots featured his puppets assuming the roles of a couple of Elliott and Goulding's characters pantomiming to a recorded Bob and Ray routine. 'Stupidly,' Elliott said, 'we got a cease-and-desist order, rather than see it was a wonderful promotion for us.'

"The 'we' in this instance included a trusted B&R accomplice, their close friend and attorney, Stan Schewel, whose warm, easygoing Virginia overtones existed side by side with an abrupt, lawyer-like command of the language, especially when drafting a letter. As Ray once put it, 'Stan could make a thank you note sound like a threat.'"