We owe a lot of that to [Muppets creator] Jim Henson's vision. My mother used to live in North Dakota where Peggy Lee sang on the local radio station before she became a famous jazz singer.

Margaret “Peggy” Timberlake Eaton has been the subject of books and even one Hollywood film (The Gorgeous Hussy) and is oftentimes portrayed as the vixen who nearly caused the collapse of President ...