Veteran Muppeteer Caroll Spinney stars in this spot-on Birdman spoof

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Michael Keaton’s stressed-out actor in Birdman isn’t the only performer haunted by a feathery fictional alter ego these days. Sesame Street veteran Caroll Spinney, 81, has been performing as perennial six-year-old (and recent Twitter convert) Big Bird since 1969, after all. Since Spinney’s other big character on the deathless PBS educational show is Oscar The Grouch, one can readily imagine the sardonic sense of humor lurking within this genial, octogenarian Muppeteer. That side of Spinney’s personality is truly brought out in Big Birdman (Or: The Unexpected Virtue of Orange Pants), an officially-sanctioned You Tube parody of the 2014 Alejandro González Iñárritu film.