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I thoroughly enjoyed watching this film and highly recommend it. It contains personal recollections and insights from many who knew Thurber personally, as well as wonderful examples of his writing and cartoons. It also includes several interview clips of Thurber himself. I first became aware of James Thurber back in the 1960s when I'd see my father reading his work and laughing to himself. I didn't quite get it until I found myself doing so as well several years later as a teenager. I am now the age (65) that Thurber was when he (and director Burgess Meredith) won a Special Tony Award in April 1960 for the Broadway production of "A Thurber Carnival". In its original book form, "The Thurber Carnival" has always been my favorite book to read numerous stories from (over and over again over the past 50 years). It is also a book from which I have read many stories to others. It is a collection of many of his best and most amusing short stories, fables, and cartoons that were originally published between 1931 - 1945. This