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...sunny foyer of the home they shared high on a hill by the ocean. They were married in 1968, long after the rest of the world had fallen in love with him, and still she keeps him close, just steps from the study where a hat-wearing cat and a Christmas-stealing Grinch and a Who-hearing Horton once scampered across the drawing board...
...more. Since Geisel's death at age 87 in 1991, his widow has taken control of an empire long considered a sleeping giant in the licensing realm, shaken it awake and issued strict marching orders. And oh, the places Seuss is going! Even as we speak, the Cat in the Hat is ushering children through an elaborate ride at Seuss Landing, the 110-acre theme park that opened last year at Universal's Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Fla. The great green spoilsport comes to life in Ron Howard's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" a big-screen adaptation costing...
...difference now, of course, is that Dr. Seuss is no longer here to guide his work into other realms, and even the sharpest entertainers are finding the transition difficult. Before Universal's recent acquisition of "The Cat in the Hat," it foundered under Steven Spielberg at DreamWorks, despite the efforts of Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric Roth ("Forrest Gump"), who spent nearly a year composing a screenplay in rhyme. "Seussical," the $10 million musical pastiche of several Seuss stories narrated by Seuss's Cat, has also had its share of bumps on the way to Broadway. Key members of the creative...
...arthritic joints. On the home page of the campaign web site, there's a button labeled "youth zone." Great! Outreach for new voters and college students, right? Not exactly. In fact, the "Youth Zone" is a charming and utterly irrelevant collection of stories for kindergartners: About the Bushes' cat, Ernie, about a brave policeman and his dog Gloria (read by Laura Bush) - and about why running for president is a lot like playing baseball (courtesy of the governor himself...
...become "his own man" and staked his claim to the presidency not on the past and the record and the best economy in human history but on the future and his promise to be the crusading hall monitor against price-gouging drug companies, corporate polluters and fat-cat campaign contributors. He took his highly stylized brand for a test drive during the primaries, turning back Bradley's ambush by repeating over and over, "I will fight...