![]() "I thought maybe there was a nut loose in the theater or something," says Karl ZoBell. ![]() It was a surprise, to say the least, for the premiere audience. When Jim Carrey, the film's Horton, said those words during the Los Angeles premiere of the film last week, demonstrators who'd slipped into the theater started to yell. But Horton decides it's his calling to protect the life on the speck: "A person's a person no matter how small," he insists. In Horton Hears a Who, Horton discovers that there's a whole town (Whoville) full of tiny people (the Whos) on a tiny speck of dust that's come floating his way. Of course they're not involved in the same conversation, precisely. That message: "A person's a person, no matter how small." Seuss' much-loved children's book opening Friday, another Horton saying has drawn attention from activists who see a message in the movie - a message that suits their purpose. That's one of Horton the elephant's best-known mottoes. And an elephant's faithful, 100 percent." ![]() ![]() "I meant what I said and I said what I meant. Seuss characters to be used for political purposes. She says neither she nor her late husband wanted Dr. Audrey Geisel is the widow of Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. ![]()
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