WhereTheWildThingsAre

Barack Obama gives 'Wild Things' the Presidential Seal of Approval

According to this weekend's pool report, President Obama spent Sunday taking in director Spike Jonze's live action adaption of Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak's classic children's book. The critic-in-chief, who also read the book during last spring's annual White House Easter Egg Roll, said the film was "worth seeing." Wild Things, which topped this weekend's box office with nearly $32.7 million in ticket sales, is an interesting choice for the leader of the free world. It is about childhood -- specifically the raw, animalistic, unchecked emotions of being a boy -- and is therefore ...

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