Kiki's Delivery Service is available on DVD from Amazon and Netflix. If you happen to listen to the English version (vs. Japanese with English subtitles), enjoy Phil Hartman as Kiki's cat Jiji! (And Kirsten Dunst supplies the voice of Kiki.) And other great Miyazaki movies will be issued on DVD in the States soon: Porco Rosso, Nausicaa Valley of the Wind, and The Cat Returns. More about Miyazaki and his oeuvre from Nausicaa.net. And we wish that Margaret Talbot's New Yorker profile of Miyazaki was online, but it isn't; there is an interview with Talbot on the interview, though (super meta-ness from The New Yorker). more ›

Now, Gothamist had the bejesus scared out of us when Mike Myers starred in The Cat in the Hat, but we would not mind seeing Mike Myers as Linda Richman do the Yiddish Cat in the Hat. more ›

Yay for surprises. The announcement of the 76th Academy Awards nominations were not the snoozefest we thought they would be, thanks to some shockers. Some thoughts on the categories: more ›

Viewers can also see the White House Christmas decorations, which are inspired by children's story books, like The Cat in the Hat and Harry Potter; last year it was of animals who had lived in the White House, like Caroline Kennedy's pony and the Clintons cat, Socks.
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This cat is kicking my ass on Google Image placement for "Jake": Jake, The Cat more ›