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What Was Your Favorite Children's Book Growing Up And Why?
Culture Buzz Today's a good day to celebrate how important children's books are to kids growing up. What book helped shape you and still sticks with you today?
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President Obama Gets Really Into Reading “Where The Wild Things Are”
Culture Buzz This is beyond priceless. From today's White House Easter Egg Roll, here's the President, Michelle Obama and Bo reading the Maurice Sendak classic to children.
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Christopher Walken Reads Where The Wild Things Are
Culture Buzz “Theres a bear strung up, I assume murdered; I don't know, there's a stool.” [Ed. note: This has been around before, but it's a slow buzz day and it's fantastic, so why not treat yourself?]
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Watch Stephen Colbert And Maurice Sendak Get High On Markers
TV Buzz Old people using inhalants seems to be a thing this week! Here's the conclusion of Stephen Colbert's highly entertaining interview with “Where The Wild Things Are” author Maurice Sendak, during which the curmudgeonly legend reviews Colbert's new children's book, “I Am A Pole (And So Can You),” before teaching him how to illustrate… while high on markers.
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Image: Where The Wild Things Really Are
Obviously, they're to be found on the subway. (via superpunch.blogspot.com)
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Image: Where The Wild Jedi Are
Star Wars Day might be over but the amazing homages just keep flowing in. What do you mean you only did one page of this, James Hance? This mash-up must be turned into a fully fledged children's novel.
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Link: The Wilderness Downtown
http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/
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Google and The Arcade Fire made this nice interactive video thing for you to get all nostalgic with. It is basically the first scene of Where The Wild Things Are remade with your childhood home and lots of browser windows. (Google Chrome required. Thanks, PDH!)
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Video: Tony Soprano As a Wild Thing
What if James Gandolfini could only play one character? The media reacts. (Via.) [Ed Note: Hopefully, this'll teach Max to stop his fucking whining already.]
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Image: Queen of the Wild Things
Just Dance! [Ed Note: Is this cute or just frightening? I can't really tell anymore with Lady GaGa-related media.]
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Video: Where the Dirty Hipsters Are
If Where the Wild Things Are was about hipsters rather than for hipsters. Gotcha Media
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Link: “Where The Wild Things Are” Girl Revealed
http://thechive.com/2009/10/where-the-wild-things-are-gir...
Some expert super sleuthing has finally uncovered the identity of the super hot “Where the Wild Things Are” t-shirt girl.
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Image: Spike Lee Vs. Spike Jonze
Just because they're both named Spike doesn't mean they both make the same kind of movies.
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Video: Where The Girls Gone Wild Things Are
Someone mashed up 'Where the Wild Things Are' with 'Girls Gone Wild', creating something I'm not sure I feel OK watching. Wordplay wise, this makes sense. Otherwise? Nope.
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Video: Where the Girls Gone Wild Things Are
A unique look into what's really going on in the heads of young boys, as only Spike Jonze and Joe Francis could imagine it.
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Video: Where The Girls Gone Wild Things Are
Including wild strippers into the trailer STILL makes this movie seem triumphant.
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Video: Where the Wild Things Are Gremlins
This recut Gremlins trailer proves that putting Arcade Fire under anything instantly makes it an indie smash hit.
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Image: Dave Eggers Writes a Furry Book
Dave Eggers has written an adaptation of a movie adaptation of a children's book: Where The Wild Things Are. If you're already wigging about buying a Max body suit, then all you literary furries can also buy a book encased in fuzz.
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Image: Van Gogh’s Where The Wild Things Are
If Van Gogh liked Maurice Sendak, he would've painted this. Also, WANT.
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Link: Spike Jonze in The NYT Magazine
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06jonze-t.html...
Everyone's reading the Spike Jonze profile from the coming weekend's Times Magazine, so you probably should, too. My favorite part of this article so far is the caption that helpfully clarifies, “Jonze is the one without a wolf suit.”
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Image: ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ Cupcakes
Claire made these for her roommate as a farewell present. Pretty sure the entire internet would be willing to fill that open room.
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Link: Karen O’s ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ Single
http://www.myspace.com/wherethewildthingsare
“All Is Love,” the first song from Karen O's Where The Wild Things Are soundtrack, is streaming on MySpace. It features whistling, kids singing, and a spelling lesson, so: it's pretty great.
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Link: We Love You So
A group blog about Where The Wild Things Are (movie version) and all the artists who've been a part of the filmmaking process.
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Video: New Where the Wild Things Are Trailer
The theatrical trailer for Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are dropped yesterday (the earlier version was just a teaser), and we're even more excited to see this film when it opens. (via Flavorwire)
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Video: Maurice Sendak Talks “Wild Things”
The famously misanthropic author behind the book seems visibly enthusiastic about Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers's predictably twee, luscious film adaptation set to open this fall. Not that we weren't going to see it, but when Maurice Sendak gives something the ok, it goes to the top of the list.
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Video: Rare Clip of Disney’s Where The Wild Things Are
In 1983 Disney and John Lasseter were doing a Where the Wild Things Are movie. It didn't work out because of expense and Lasseter was fired, but there is still this clip, a relic of early computer animation. [via The Uniblog]
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Image: Terrible Yellow Eyes
Because of the upcoming movie release, I've been really loving all things Wild recently. This site is a collection of works that are inspired by Where the Wild Things Are, and it's all fairly awesome. Via DesignWorkLife.
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Video: Baby Reacts to “Where the Wild Things Are” Trailer
And he is not terrified! This video conclusively proves that the movie will be amazing; that it will be fun for joy-loving persons of all ages; and that there should definitely be more videos on the internet of babies reacting to movie trailers.
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Video: ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ Focus Group
Spike Jonze tests a mask from Where The Wild Things Are on an unwilling child. This upholds my working thesis that everything about this movie makes me want to both cry and conceive.
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Video: “Everyone Poops” Trailer
Here's a fake trailer for the Spike Jonze feature length adaptation of Everyone Poops that makes fun of Where the Wild Things Are and pretty much the entire genre of quirky indie films. I thought I hated everything today until I watched this.
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