Maurice Sendak has passed
Maurice Sendak has passed
#1Maurice Sendak has passed
Posted: 5/8/12 at 8:42am
R.I.P.
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....but the world goes 'round
Updated On: 5/8/12 at 08:42 AM
#2Maurice Sendak has passed
Posted: 5/8/12 at 8:56am
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#2Maurice Sendak has passed
Posted: 5/8/12 at 9:11am
Loved this guy. Here's a great interview he did on The Colbert Report. http://tinyurl.com/6vu8f3n
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#3Maurice Sendak has passed
Posted: 5/8/12 at 9:50amSo sad. He was wonderful on the Colbert Report and I loved all his books.
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#4Maurice Sendak has passed
Posted: 5/8/12 at 10:25amNot to mention his work as a set and costume designer. His production of The Magic Flute for Houston Grand Opera (and that was subsequently remounted by many other companies) was quite lovely, as was the production of The Nutcracker that he did for (I think) Pacific Northwest Ballet
#5Maurice Sendak has passed
Posted: 5/8/12 at 10:32am
I loved his books. Little Bear was a big thing in my house. I also liked Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen.
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#6Maurice Sendak has passed
Posted: 5/8/12 at 10:40am
I saw The Nutcracker several times in Seattle with his sets and costume designs. I'll never for get it ... or him.
RIP
Part of my childhood just died.
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#7Maurice Sendak has passed
Posted: 5/8/12 at 10:56am
I loved Maurice Sendak books as a little girl, and passed on that love to my niece and nephew. His books were fun, exciting and beautiful to look at. Sendak was a great artist and (I think) an even better storyteller, who never talked down to kids.
Carole King's music set to Sendak's work was a genius collaboration. Anyone else remember the Really Rosie television special from the seventies? Pierre, Alligators All Around, Chicken Soup With Rice, One Was Johnny...still have them memorized!
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#8Maurice Sendak has passed
Posted: 5/8/12 at 10:59am"Chicken Soup With Rice" was my favorite, RIP.
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#9Maurice Sendak has passed
Posted: 5/8/12 at 12:05pm
Very sad news. Try to find that remarkable NUTCRACKER -- there's a good film of the production with his designs.
RIP. He'll live forever, of course.
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#10Maurice Sendak has passed
Posted: 5/8/12 at 12:13pm
Very sad news! He was a wonderful author and illustrator. 'Where the Wild Things Are' and 'Little Bear' were some of my favorite books when I was a child.
ETA:
"Chicken Soup With Rice" was my favorite, RIP."
I loved that book as well.
Updated On: 5/8/12 at 12:13 PM
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#11Maurice Sendak has passed
Posted: 5/8/12 at 1:06pm
A great artist/storyteller.
I wish Really Rosie would be put on dvd.
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#12Maurice Sendak has passed
Posted: 5/8/12 at 1:27pm
I have no idea if this is true, but I saw it posted and thought it wonderful:
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”
? Maurice Sendak
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#13Maurice Sendak has passed
Posted: 5/8/12 at 2:14pmI like the fact that he was known to be cantankerous!
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#14Maurice Sendak has passed
Posted: 5/8/12 at 4:39pm
A link to follow, in which Sendak memorably defines childhood:
Art Spiegelman Visits Maurice Sendak
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#15Maurice Sendak has passed
Posted: 5/8/12 at 5:00pm
I like the fact that he was known to be cantankerous!
He seemed to have a good reason for it, too. He said that he didn't like book signing as he got older because he thought his appearance would frighten children (the same way he was frightened by adults when he was a boy). As he said a while back, he based the monsters in WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE on how he perceived his aunts and uncles when he was growing up.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#16Maurice Sendak has passed
Posted: 5/8/12 at 7:12pmRIP. I loved this New Yorker profile from a few years back http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/04/17/060417fa_fact_zarin
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#18Maurice Sendak has passed
Posted: 5/8/12 at 10:22pm
He wrote some of my favorites. RIP and thank you, Mr. Sendak
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Updated On: 5/8/12 at 10:22 PM
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#19Maurice Sendak has passed
Posted: 5/8/12 at 10:25pm
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
Updated On: 5/8/12 at 10:25 PM
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#21Maurice Sendak has passed
Posted: 5/9/12 at 11:28am
A bitterwseet tribute to Sendak from the grandson of Oral Roberts in today's Washington Post.
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