http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.m/the_big_picture/2009/10/spike-jonze-is-wild-about-maurice-sendak.html?p=2This was my favorite part:
In one extraordinary scene, Jonze films Sendak reimagining his mind-set as an ambitious young artist, almost greedy for success. "I want to be famous, I want to be snooty," Sendak says, reconnecting with his younger self. "I want to have a big, gray shiny car and everybody will see it. Here comes Big Mo! Holy [moly]. It's him, it's him! Sure I'll give you an autograph, you [expletive]."
― An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 October 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
NYT twitter feed reporting Sendak has died...
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:30 (eleven years ago) link
Aw man. But such a life!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:30 (eleven years ago) link
I want to pimp this interview again. Introspective, sad, and brilliant Maurice Sendak on mortality, his sexuality, childhood, inspiration, and looking out the window.
― et tu, twinkletoes? (remy bean), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:35 (eleven years ago) link
wow. really sad news.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
NYT obit now up -- cause was complications from a recent stroke:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/books/maurice-sendak-childrens-author-dies-at-83.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:41 (eleven years ago) link
RIP. A helluva a guy.
Woah at Spike Jonze native Brooklynite connection.
― how's life, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:41 (eleven years ago) link
Love the description of his books:
"Roundly praised, intermittently censored and occasionally eaten..."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:45 (eleven years ago) link
"I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more. ... What I dread is the isolation. ... There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready."
― et tu, twinkletoes? (remy bean), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 13:01 (eleven years ago) link
Oh wow, RIP Mr. Sendak. Thank you for freeing up the minds and spirits of children and human beings everywhere.
I just read Night Kitchen to the kids at bedtime last night, for the who-knows-how-manyth time? Tonight we'll do Wild Things, for sure.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 13:08 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think i've ever read my daughter a Sendak book. maybe tnite will be the first...
― Mordy, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
Bumble-Ardy – his last – is really lovely and dark.
― et tu, twinkletoes? (remy bean), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
its hard to be sad sad because he livef such a rich, complicated, long life. but jesus this is like someone telling me my irascible great-uncle maurice just died.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
otm but RIP anyway
his recent ubiquity on TV (HBO doc, colbert appearances) was a real gift
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
His interview with Colbert is one of my favourite things I've seen on TV recently. Such an awesome dude, RIP.
― Roz, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
fucking hell.
RIP
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
this makes me crazy sad.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/544825_3499025228098_1045659274_3235343_2065513989_n.jpg
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link