History of Sesame Street including changing its traditional magazine format to a narrative format. Because of the popularity of the Muppet Elmo, the show incorporated a popular segment known as "Elmo's World". "Sesame Street" has won eight Grammys and over a hundred Emmys in its history—more than any other children's show. In the late 1960s, 97% of all American households owned a television set, and preschool children watched an average of 27 hours of television per week; programs created for them were widely criticized for being too violent and for reflecting commercial values. Producer Joan Ganz Cooney called children's programming a "wasteland", and she
Elmo Lincoln at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7042 Hollywood Boulevard. In 2001, his daughter Marci'a Lincoln Rudolph told his story in her book, "My Father, Elmo Lincoln: The Original Tarzan" (). Elmo Lincoln Elmo Lincoln (born Otto Elmo Linkenhelt) (February 6, 1889June 27, 1952) was an American film actor. Lincoln is best known in his silent movie role as the first Tarzan in 1918's "Tarzan of the Apes" as an adult (Gordon Griffith played him as a child in the same movie). He portrayed