> From: Miller, Jeffrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Cat in the Hat - ok, this may be a bad example, as it was a 
> DREADFUL film, but if you were to make a film that was 
> faithful (as you define it) to the source book, it would be 
> about 10 minutes long, and be a glorified music video for the 
> spoken word version of the text.  GRinch Who Stole Christmas, 
> a fairly decent adaptation, also strays from the source 
> material wildly, yet no one complains about that.  Why?

My daughter did.  About an hour into "The Grinch" she leaned over to
me and asked "Is he ever going to go steal the presents?"  I had to
agree with her.

 - jmh
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