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Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak is the author of the children's book 'Where the Wild Things Are.' Find more Maurice Sendak news and information here.
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Maurice Sendak, the man who brought you 'Where the Wild Things Are,' tells his life story through a retrospective exhibit that includes original watercolors, drawings, and sketches.
- Mon, December 28 - Sendak on Sendak at CJM (events.kqed.org)
- Sun, January 10 - Sendak on Sendak at CJM (events.kqed.org)
- Sun, December 27 - Sendak on Sendak at CJM (events.kqed.org)
If you're looking for something to do on Christmas Day, check out the Contemporary Jewish Museum, where admission is free all day. The exhibit "Sendak on Sendak," a look at the work of Where the Wild Things Are illustrator Maurice Sendak, is on view through January 19th, 2010.
Free Admission at the Contemporary Jewish Museum originally appeared on About.com San Francisco Travel on Thursday, December 24th, 2009 at 21:52:08.Permalink | Comment...
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A Crikey reader finds parallels between Malcolm Turnbull and Where the Wild Things Are, plus some clarification on NSW Health, sexing up data on climate change and more.
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From crikey.com.au
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Doesn’t it seem weird that there even is a real Maurice Sendak? I was listening to some outtakes of appearances he’s made on Fresh Air, and the whole time I just kept thinking, “Come on. You’re actually that Maurice Sendak?”
Think about it.
You’re Maurice Sendak. You’re at a dinner party (anywhere, really). Someone you’ve never met [...]
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Adaption of Maurice Sendak's classic book opens on Friday 11 December Famed director Spike Jonze will discuss his new film, "Where the Wild Things Are", the adaption of Maurice Sendak's classic book today, December 5, 5:15 pm at the flagship Apple Store, Regent Street.
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- The Effects of Where the Wild Things Are (i.rottentomatoes.com)
- Where The Wild Things Are (list.co.uk)
At just 338 words, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are must be among the shortest books in the canon of popular fiction. Yet those 338 words and the magnificent illustrations that accompany them have charged the imaginations of children ever ...
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Once the hippest name in music videos, the 40-year-old director will this week terrify children with his adaption of Maurice Sendak's adored taleA large rubber-band ball sits on the bedside table of the wilful young Max, hero of the new Spike Jonze film, while overhead, on a shelf, sits a bird's nest. Early shots of these odd objects cleverly prelude the virtuoso visual style of this audacious adaptation of a children's classic: the 1963...
From guardian.co.uk
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Here endeth the legend of the genius of the director Spike Jonze: Where the Wild Things Are is nothing but a disasterThe hero of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are is Max, and he's six or seven, but 100 on the mischief scale. He's so bad that his mother (never seen in the book), sends him to bed without supper. That's when Max turns deeply angry and when his own room begins to take on the apparatus of a jungle. And so Max heads off in...
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It has taken Being John Malkovich and Adaptation director Spike Jonze more than five years to bring Where the Wild Things Are to the big screen. Maurice Sendak, the writer and illustrator of the best-selling children's book (which has sold upward of 20 million copies), identified Jonze as the only man he trusted enough to render his story on film. That story focuses on Max, the boisterous boy in wolf pyjamas who, when sent to his room for bad...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/20/maurice-sendak-wild-things-hell
I loved this. We all saw the movie this past weekend. The kids may have missed the psychological elements in the fantasy sequence (though it appears a number of film critics did too ... oddly enough, since they weren't all that subtle). But there were no meltdowns or nightmares or anything like that. Sendak was right to be annoyed.
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