How Sid Krofft, at 92, became an Instagram Live star – TheDay.com

Published October 24. 2021 12:01AM  Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times Sid Krofft is telling another story. This one is about the time Michael Jackson called him around 6 a.m. L.A. time on Sept. 11, 2001, as coverage of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center engulfed all. “He was crying, and he said, ‘I was supposed to come back to L.A., but they’ve attacked us. It’s like the world has come to an end,'” says Krofft, who created stages for the Jackson Five to perform on decades earlier. “We had become incredible friends. I went to Vegas with him, and we hung out a lot.”Krofft is best known through his collaborations with his brother Marty on TV shows like “Land of the Lost,” “Sigmund and the Sea Monsters,” “The Banana Splits Adventure Hour,” “The Brady Bunch Variety Hour” and “H.R. Pufnstuf,” whose 17 episodes from 1969 were a syndication staple through the 1970s and again in the ’90s. The Beatles, Krofft says, were Pufnstuf fans. “Every time it came off the press, they wanted a copy. They wanted to be the first to have ‘H.R. Pufnstuf’ because they were locked in their hotel room.”The 92-year-old puppeteer’s career and influence goes…
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