Word: grinch
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Your writer Jess Cagle captured the devotion of Audrey Geisel, "the widow," to all things Seussian: keeping the ashes of her late husband Theodor Seuss Geisel in her hutch and monitoring all aspects of the licensing of Dr. Seuss materials. Were you aware that both How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and The Cat in the Hat have been published in Latin? Quomodo Invidiosulus Nomine Grinchus Christi Natalem Abrogaverit (literally, How the Nasty Individual Named Grinch Stole the Birth of Christ) and Cattus Petasatus are on bookstore shelves and have been selling quite well. MARIE C. BOLCHAZY, VICE PRESIDENT Bolchazy-Carducci...
...film It's A Wonderful Life overtaken every other Christmas fable--including A Christmas Carol, Charlie Brown and the Grinch (with or without Jim Carrey)--as the story of the season...
...movie theaters, it's a wasteland of retreads. Rugrats in Paris and 102 Dalmatians are unwelcome sequels, The Grinch is an uninvited, ill-intentioned remake (it was the first movie I've walked out of since Boxing Helena), The Sixth Day is another Arnold clone (my brother carped, "I saw that last year"; "Nooo. That was End of Days," I answered). Unbreakable has its charms, but it also relies on the same pacing, colors, stars (Willis and a Haley Joel look-alike), and even kitchen (!) as The Sixth Sense. Bounce showcases a been-there-done-that Benneth love affair, Charlie...
Never mind the Grinch; the Israeli army stole Christmas. Or at least that's the way the Palestinian Authority would like you to see it. The city fathers of Bethlehem, an Arab town (35 percent Christian, 65 percent Muslim) which falls under PA jurisdiction, have decided that Christ's birth will not be celebrated in his birthplace this year - at least not officially. Although the local economy is heavily dependent of tourists drawn every Christmas season to the Church of the Nativity on Manger Square, the local authorities have canceled the outdoor concerts of previous holiday seasons and have announced...
...GRINCH ME! Bored at work? With IM Games' new instant-messenger versions of classic board games, you can grab a buddy for checkers, chess and backgammon any time of the day or night. Just download the free software from flipside.com and you can play checkers in real time with anybody on your buddy list (special game pieces for the holidays feature the Grinch and Cindy-Lou Who). One downside: the games are only for ICQ users. Everyone else will have to find some other way to kill time...