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The prolific and influential writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak is best known for Where The Wild Things Are, considered one of the all-time greats of children's literature. That classification as "children's literature" is just one of the many ideas to which the venerable and indeed hilariously indignant author objects this recent interview with The Colbert Report host Stephen Colbert

Last weekend's episode of Saturday Night Live featured the return of "The Ambiguously Gay Duo," the popular animated superhero parody by Robert Smigel. A recurring feature on SNL, a new episode of "TAGD" hadn't been broadcast since 2007, but the wait was no doubt worth it for fans of Ace and Gary, who reunited in the forms of Jon Hamm and Jimmy Fallon for a live-action adventur

Joss Whedon's cult hit "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" didn't end when the TV show went off the air, but rather continued its "8th Season" as a comic book. A recent storyline included a "True Blood"-esque public announcement that vampires exist, leading ditzy blonde vampire Harmony to land her own reality show called "Harmony Bites...

It's the end of the week explosion! I have a new career as a police officer...well...it's more like I'm in charge of the neighborhood watch...and by that I mean I'm really enjoying calling the cops on the kids in my building for playing with illegal fireworks ...

A few months ago I was writing profiles for Time.com's online poll leading up to the magazine's annual Time 100 list--basically 100 Person of the Year issues all rolled into one to sell twice as much ad space as the Person of the Year. In any event, my job was to come up with one reason why a person is influential, and one reason why they're not, theoretically giving the online reader the chance t