Seated behind me at a critics’ screening of Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! were a well-known movie reviewer and her date, a young child. At the end the child, audibly in rapture, asked, “Did you love ...

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Like the giant animated elephant star of "Horton Hears a Who!" you'll be surprised at what you're hearing. Yes, that really is Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Seth Rogen, Carol Burnett and Amy Poehler — all ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Horton may hear a Who, but the rest of us may hear a lot of hoopla, and it's not all the charming sort you expect from a benign Seussian world. "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!" succeeds to a point in ...

Was Dr. Seuss, né Theodor Seuss Geisel, oblivious to his own genius? The allegory of his charming Horton Hears a Who! remains fluid today, and like its crafty rhymes, ebbs and flows with the times.