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more about #mauricesendak more comments → tinytm11: I brought my five year old daughter as a special mommy and me time Friday night. She had been wanting to see this movie for weeks, almost as much as I... more » prettycool: The "Worried Shoes" cover distracted me every time, and occasionally Ira and Judith were too cutsey, but other than that my niece I watched with our f... more » the zeeba is galápagosing it up!: There's nothing I could or would change, and yet something rubbed me the wrong way. I still love this version, but some of it was so much darker than ... more » Hooplehead: Sorry for the double-submit! more » Hooplehead: It was lovely. Funny and creative and childlike-really childlike, not the saccharine version that passes for it in Disney movies and rom-coms. Max Rec... more » VirginiaDentata: NPR recently played an interview of Maurice Sendak by Terry Gross from the 1980s, and he was explaining that the Wild Things are based on his childhoo... more » laikapants: The line "I could eat you up, I love you so" was read as endearment by me, given that it was delivered by KW in the farewell scene. Especially if you ... more » TransFat: Not totally unrelated but since WTWTA was number one this weekend I hope we get more films with puppets and less CGI fests. If we can get another fant... more » TransFat: I spent a good chunk of my weekend defending my position on WTWTA (that's the last time I say that a movie is in my Top Ten without clarifying what th... more » ImDatNinja (loves her Red Sox): In a long line of things that make me feel old I kind of became sick when seeing the movie. Dont get me wrong, I loved it, but the hand held camera/sh... more » prismatism is Team Bella: Why do people think Karen O = hipster? It's weird. The most hipster thing she's done is be involved with this movie, which isn't hipster at all. Ma... more » DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Nice breakdown. As a lover of this book as a child, I was very happy to see Spike's interpretation of it was, as I felt it, so close to the book. Laur... more » Cam/ron: I didn't think much of the book when I was a kid (hardcore Shel Silverstein fan here), but Jonze performed an admirable experiment with a movie about ... more » Elizabooth: I took my four and a half year old yesterday and she loved it. Had to ask a lot of questions (is still asking a looooot of questions), but she was nei... more » MijaMia: The biggest impression I had after seeing it last night was that I really didn't feel like it was a kids' movie. I know this won't be the popular resp... more » -
#wisdom
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Maurice Sendak's advice to young people, in Spike Jonze's short documentary: "Quit this life as soon as possible. Get out. You're doing a documentary about a brain-dead person." [LA Times] -
#dirtbag
It's A Girl For Heidi & No One For Sparkle Vamp
- Finally, it's confirmed: Heidi Klum gave birth to a girl, Lou Samuel, on October 9 in L.A. (Her siblings are Johan, 2½ Henry, 5 and Leni, 5.) Seal says:
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Q: "What Do You Say To Parents Who Think The Wild Things Film May Be Too Scary?"
Maurice Sendak: "I would tell them to go to hell. That's a question I will not tolerate… If they can't handle it, go home." [Page Six] -
#adaptation
Where The Wild Things Are : When Kids' Tales Go Tinseltown
Am I the only one who's kind of apprehensive about the Spike Jonze-helmed Where the Wild Things Are movie? Yes? Okay, then. But here's why: More » -
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Maurice Sendak Praises Spike Jonze's Version Of Where The Wild Things Are
The new Where the Wild Things Are featurette at left shows that Maurice Sendak was heavily involved behind the scenes. "He's turned it into his without giving up mine," says Sendak of Spike Jonze. "He's touched me very much." [Buzzfeed] -
