and even with a jaw-droppingly short runtime of 82 minutes (and that's including the end credits), the 2003 version of "The Cat in the Hat" was pretty clearly a flop from the word go. And Geisel ...

So, just before Easter, in 1957, a little book you may have heard of, called The Cat in the Hat, made its first appearance. Theodore Geisel — writing under the name “Dr. Suess” — later ...