Even though “The Lorax” has yet to open to the public, it’s a movie that has ruffled a lot of feathers. Some claim it’s leftist eco-propaganda and others claiming that, with its 70-plus product tie-ins, it’s capitalistic garbage. Rafer Guzman, film critic for Newsday and co-host of the Takeaway’s Movie Date podcast, saw the film this week and is here to weigh in.
Dr. Charles Cohen is a Dr. Seuss enthusiast and scholar, and helped bring several of Dr. Seuss’s lost stories to the public last year in the collection “The Bippolo Seed and other Lost Stories,” which is still on The New York Times bestseller list.
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