Tuesday, March 18, 2008
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About Me
- Roger Sutton
- I've been the editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc, since 1996; previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. Received my M.A. in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a B.A. from Pitzer College in 1978.
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3 comments:
Ho ho ho, I won't see this one, but I might go for "Go Dog, Go!" (oh, and "Paranoid Park.")
...and once again, we see the messy combination of accents, animation, and American filmmaking. The "bad guy" in Horton, a vulture, is voiced by Will Arnett, an American actor imitating a Russian speaking English.
Do cartoon bad guys always have to be foreign these days? Can't we send cues about villainy through snappy dialogue and nuanced non-verbals without resorting to the lazy shortcut of exploiting and/or inciting xenophobia?
A "YA novel written by Robbe-Grillet" . . . very evocative. "Last Year at the Skate Park" anyone? Har har.
Signed, Anonymous Doofus
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