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...wartime Private Snafu cartoons and, in 1966, brought Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! to the small screen. This Horton was narrated by another old Geisel colleague, Hans Conried, the actor who had incarnated that pedagogue-demagogue, that piano-teacher torturer, Dr. Terwilliker in Geisel's fantastical live-action film The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. And you shouldn't miss the elephant's first appearance in movies, in the Warners cartoon Horton Hatches the Egg directed by Bob Clampett. This wonderfully vigorous adaptation can be found on YouTube. (But don't let the kids peek...
...keep senior members of the audience in the loop, soon subside, as the film starts parading its strong story sense and its plethora of heart. There's an old-fashioned suspense sequence, in which Horton tries to navigate a rickety rope bridge, that's as well choreographed as any action scene from an Indiana Jones movie. So is the climax, with the Who-villagers shouting in desperate chorus to save both their world and their benefactor's life. I won't say it's emotionally wrenching, but the man sitting in front of the child at the screening was bathed...
...Battleground Blood Diamond (2006) Civil war, child soldiers, and Leo DiCaprio doing lots of running - Sierra Leone offers big issues and non-stop action rolled into...
...training wheel incident has taught me anything, it’s to stop asking for poetic justice. I can’t remember being bullied after this incident, or if I was, it never forced me into action again. Except for just one thing: this past summer, I made my sister, a rising second-grader, take off her training wheels...
...comments on U.S. policy in the region. In the April Esquire, Thomas Barnett, a former professor at the Naval War College, wrote that Fallon was "brazenly challenging" the Bush Administration's push to go to war with Iran, fighting "against what he saw as an ill-advised action." The lengthy article claimed that while President Bush wants war with Iran, "the admiral has urged restraint and diplomacy," adding, "Who will prevail, the president or the admiral...