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I have a dear love for Dr Seuss’s Horton Hears a Who!  <\/em>from my childhood — and from Katherine’s as well. The upcoming movie<\/a> looks<\/em> gorgeous<\/a>, but I fear, in an effort to pad a short kid’s book out to the requisite feature film length, the insertion of endless wisecracks and pop references will cause it to … lose something.<\/p>\n

We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a dear love for Dr Seuss’s Horton Hears a Who!  from my childhood — and from Katherine’s as well. 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