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» Parents upset, bored, by 'Where the Wild Things Are'

This is one of my favourite risible CNN articles ever* - especially the part where one father lodges this complaint:

“I think there almost wasn’t enough of a fear element — there was never a moment when my [20-month-old] was crying.”

Hello, refund.

But this did remind me of the first movie I ever saw, or the first movie I can remember seeing: a black-and-white, silent version of The Little Prince, which my dad took my brother and me to see at the glorious Proctor’s Theatre in Schenectady, New York. I think I was about three, and it scared the living daylights out of me - the sheer movieness of it was challenging enough to my small brain, never mind the talking fox. And as a result I have never read the book or watched another film version of it, even though I am told it is charming.

* The wedding cake shaped like a bride still wins, however.