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NEWS ABOUT: Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss stories: 10 news summaries

 Highest Earning Dead Celebs 

Michael Jackson, predictably, made the list—but not at No. 1

Oct 28, 09 12:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - The stars on Forbes ' annual list of the top-earning dead celebrities number, appropriately, 13. To make the list, a "deleb" must have brought in at least $6 million in the past year. This year's list is notably missing former mainstays Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and Steve McQueen,... More »

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entertainment • Dr. Seuss • Andy Warhol • John Lennon • Jimi Hendrix • celebrity • Elvis Presley • Albert Einstein • Michael Jackson • Yves Saint Laurent • J. R. R. Tolkien • Rodgers and Hammerstein • Charles Schulz • Michael Crichton • Aaron Spelling • celebrity death

(Newser) - Dr Suess' green-themed story The Lorax is becoming the first of his works to get the 3D treatment, Variety reports. Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment plan to release the animated picture in 2012, on what would have been the author's 108th birthday. His 1971 book told the story of a... More »

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Dr. Seuss • Universal Pictures • children's books • movie deal • animated movie • 3-D • The Lorax

 Don't Get Comfy,
 Harry Potter 

Dr. Seuss, EB White win popularity contest over Rowling

May 5, 08 4:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Both are fantasists who've sold zillions of books, but in a recent poll of American children, the classic wins out: Dr. Seuss' works are more popular than JK Rowling's. Three million-plus kids weighed in on an educational software company's website, and Rowling's Harry Potter books trail works by EB White,... More »

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Harry Potter • Dr. Seuss • JK Rowling • children • reading • book • Harper Lee • Laura Numeroff • EB White • Judy Blume • Katherine Paterson

21 Wins Big at Box Office

Iraq war flick Stop-Loss stumbles in at no. 8

Mar 30, 08 4:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Gambling flick 21 played to win this weekend and banked $23.7 million, scoring top spot at the box office, Variety reports. But it failed to revive overall ticket sales, which are down 17% from last year's frame and about a third for the year. Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a ... More »

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Hollywood • film • Dr. Seuss • box office • Tyler Perry • Iraq war • movies

 Horton Hears
 a Box Office Hit 

$45.1M opening is year's biggest

Mar 16, 08 5:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! stomped into theaters this weekend for the year's biggest box office debut, Variety reports. Its $45.1 million draw is the fifth-highest for a G-rated animated flick ever and the fourth-biggest March opener. “It played to whos from ages 2 to 92,... More »

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Hollywood • film • Dr. Seuss • box office • Twentieth Century Fox • Horton Hears a Who

Movie review

 Horton Enormously Entertaining 

Seuss' elephant tale succeeds where others have failed

Mar 14, 08 7:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - The big-screen adaptation of Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! succeeds in large part because the film's actors are not seen. "Unlike those behind the recent live-action grotesqueries The Grinch and Cat in the Hat," observes Carrie Rickey of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the makers of the CG-animated... More »

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Dr. Seuss • Steve Carell • movie review • animated movie • Jim Carrey • Horton • Pixas

Grinch Returns to Broadway Despite Strike

Holiday musical reopens after 2 weeks of darkness, picketing

Nov 23, 07 5:12 PM CST
(Newser) - Little girls and their parents flocked to this morning's reopening of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! after a 2-week hiatus, the Times reports. A stagehands' strike has shuttered most Broadway productions, but Grinch tickets went on sale after a judge ordered the show, which has a separate... More »

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theater • Dr. Seuss • Broadway • labor unions • labor relations • stagehands • Broadway stagehands' strike • Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas!

Grinch Can't Steal Christmas, Judge Orders

Stageworkers' striking was not to her liking; this show will go on

Nov 22, 07 9:11 AM CST
(Newser) - A Manhattan judge ruled against some of Broadway's striking stagehands yesterday, ordering the musical "Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas!" to resume performances tomorrow, the AP reports. The injunction, which may save the show from financial doom, also unleashed a flood of kid-lit wordplay on the... More »

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Dr. Seuss • Broadway • Broadway stagehands' strike • Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! • Helen Freedman • Jujamcyn Theaters • St. James Theatre

Green Eggs
and Slammer: NH Judge Channels Seuss

Inmate can't keep quiet about his prison diet

Sep 21, 07 4:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - When a New Hampshire state prison inmate used a hard-boiled egg to illustrate his grievance with his institutional diet, the federal judge overseeing the case sought lofty counsel—Dr. Seuss. "I do not like eggs in the file. I do not like eggs any style," James Muirhead responded,... More »

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Dr. Seuss • New Hampshire • federal courts • humor • judge • Concord, NH

Dylan, Dr.Seuss Can't Mix

Humble parodists no match for corporate Goliaths wielding copyright law

Apr 13, 07 11:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dr. Seuss's estate has knocked down a website by artist/jokerman Kevin Ryan, featuring the fantasist's verses set to fake Bob Dylan music. The loss of the brilliant mash-up prompts Salon's Dan Brekke to explore how the times are a' changin' for copyright law, particularly in the murky and amorphous area... More »

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copyright law • intellectual property • parody • satire • Bob Dylan • Dr. Seuss

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