In his Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling offers quaintly mythic etiology-accounts or origin stories for such phenomena as the tides (“The Crab That Played With the Sea”) and the distinctive features of ...

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The Jungle Book is a coming-of-age tale about a hero born where he doesn't belong. It pivots from frantic action sequences, to heartfelt pauses, to charming banter among the denizens of the titular ...

Jon Favreau was just a small child when he saw the original “Jungle Book,” but the film made a deep impression. The actor-director still vividly recalls majestic elephants on the march, the “hypnotic ...