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Article: Wild Man Blues Clues.(TheFrontPage)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- May 13, 2002
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Byline: Jason Gay
Steve Burns wants to sing songs about superstrings and nanotechnology. Five million kids would rather he kept singing about the mail.
Mr. Burns, 28, is recently departed as Steve, the saucer-eyed, floppy-haired host of Blue's Clues, the phenomenally successful Nickelodeon children's television show. For six years, Mr. Burns donned a green-and-olive-striped rugby shirt, wiggled his skinny tush in pleated khakis, conversed with a cartoon dog and sang wonderfully inane anthems like "The Mail Song": "Here's the mail, it never fails / It makes me want to wag my tail!!"
Now Mr. Burns, who lives in Brooklyn, is shedding the rugby ...