''Labyrinth'' itself is a fascinating amalgam, the first major collaboration of the father of the Muppets with the wizard of ''Star Wars.'' A few years ago, Mr. The other characters - Hoggle, the sweet dumb Ludo, the Wise Man with the bird on his head, the Wild Things with their detachable arms and legs - are amalgams of ostrich feathers and hydraulic engineering, pink latex and radio controls. ''Labyrinth'' is a $25 million Gothic fairy tale which stars 14-year-old Jennifer Connelly as Sarah, who must find her way to the heart of a maze to save her baby brother from goblins, and the rock star David Bowie as her nemesis, the Goblin King. ''It was so long ago,'' he says, shaking his shaggy head, ''that I can't remember what was going through my mind.'' He created Kermit the Frog - the first character in what has become a Muppet universe for a generation of American children - 30 years ago at a local television station in Washington, D.C. There are two actors made of flesh and blood and one real baby in ''Labyrinth.'' It is necessary to keep such scores on Jim Henson movies, since that tall, bearded puppeteer with the long face and graying hair most often armors himself with the yak hair, metal bones, plastic eyeballs and rubber teeth of his own creations.
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