Yay for honesty. If you haven't already read Tuesday's NYT interview with the children's book legend Maurice Sendak, check it out now. His partner of fifty years, Eugene Glynn, died in 2007, a loss that has made Sendak even more pensive. His sense of humor survives.
When Mr. Sendak received the 1996 National Medal of Arts, President Bill Clinton told him about one of his own childhood fantasies that involved wearing a long coat with brass buttons when he grew up.
“But Mr. President, you’re only going to be president for a year more,” Mr. Sendak said, “you still have time to be a doorman.”
Coming next year is Spike Jonze's live action adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are. Sendak tells the Times he's happy about it. The Times hints that maybe the studio isn't. Below is a test shot for the monster suit. After the webheads were underwhelmed by the leaked "clip" Spike issued a statement saying it's nothing like the movie and that's not even the actual child actor. I hope it's not the actual script either.
Sendak's interview for some reason made me remember the aging children's book writer and his longtime partner, Derek Moulthorp and Geoffrey Bacon, in David Leavitt's The Lost Language of Cranes
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