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Kitty Litter
At one point in ‘The Cat in the Hat,’ the Cat, played by Mike Myers, is mistaken for a pinata by a group of children at a birthday party. One by one, they line up to smack him, and the scene culminates with a husky lad swinging a baseball bat directly into the unfortunate [...]

The Art of Dr. SeussTheodor “Dr. Seuss” Geisel’s first children’s book, “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” was published in 1937; in the year 2000, nine years after his death, the ageless appeal of his whimsical world is selling seats on Broadway (”Seussical”) and at the movies (”The Grinch”).Yet most of [...]

Casting Herself as ‘Seussical’ Savior, O’Donnell to Don Cat’s HatThrowing her considerable box-office muscle behind the critically maligned musical “Seussical,” Rosie O’Donnell, Broadway’s biggest booster, announced yesterday that she would take over a leading role in the show next month. Ticket sales immediately soared.The New York Times

‘Seussical: The Musical’: The Cat! The Whos! The Places They Go!
Whoever the many chefs were, the finished product is a flavorless broth. The heightened brightness of all the ingredients � the eye- searing design palette, the dizzying lighting effects, the bouncy orchestrations, those mega-watt smiles � perversely meld into a general gray dimness.The New York [...]

‘Grinch’ Helps Get Hollywood Back on Record Pace “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” a lavishly mounted offering from the director Ron Howard, starring Jim Carrey, has virtually catapulted families into movie theater seats, dominating the five-day Thanksgiving weekend and earning an estimated $137.4 million in its first 10 days of release, nearly $74 [...]

Sense and Nonsense
At the top of the juvenile pantheon, the benevolent ruler of all that he sees, sits Dr. Seuss. In the world of children’s culture, perhaps only Walt Disney has as wide and enduring name recognition. But whereas Disney was primarily an impresario and an empire builder, the Henry Ford of fantasy, Dr. Seuss, [...]

You’re not so bad, Mr. Grinch
The story has a moral lesson no different than Dickens’s A Christmas Carol — but with a tone that is loony rather than melodramatic. It’s basically about learning what the true value of Christmas is. The Grinch (Jim Carrey) is a cave-dwelling curmudgeon who lives with his dog Max at [...]

Counter Culture� - The dialogue stars in You Can Count on Me. The 6th Day thinks through cloning and capitalism. Why’d they bother with How the Grinch Stole Christmas? � by David Edelstein
The new, live-action How the Grinch Stole Christmas doesn’t settle for this biological-determinist interpretation of the Grinch’s misanthropy. It takes a humanistic approach [...]

‘Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas’: And He Clucked, ‘What a Faaabulous Trick’
The movie is so clogged with kooky gadgetry and special effects and glitter and goo that watching it feels like being gridlocked at Toys “R” Us during the Christmas rush. Both the film and its omnivorous star, Jim Carrey, who seems to [...]

Seussical
Seussical, the Musical, , produced here in Boston, but warming up to open at the Richard Rodgers Oct. 15th in NYC, is currently something like what hatches from the egg that moon-faced Kevin Chamberlin (Horton) keeps warm through most of the show; it looks something like an elephant, but has wings. The show is a [...]