“The Gorgeous Miss Piggy,” by Leo Lerman, was originally published in the March 1978 issue of Vogue.

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Watch out Barbra, Liza, Divine Miss M., Ann-Margret. Here’s Miss Piggy. Her game: world show-biz center stage take-over. “All these men,” she smolders, “they want me…” And women and children—they all want her to sing, dance quip, flip her glorious hair., and lust after hr unrequited passion, Kermit the Frog, on Jim Henson’s The Muppet Show: probably the most-viewed TV show in the world. They’re even bonkers about it in Iron Curtain Yugoslavia. When onscreen time in Britain was scheduled for early Friday evening (weekend shopping, pub, commuting), the populace near-rioted until it was switched to

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