"Where The Wild Things Are" trailer

The trailer for the long-awaited adaptation of "Where the Wild Things Are" is out. The film version of the Maurice Sendak book will be released in October. The story is about a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, who creates his own world - a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown the boy as their ruler.

Mr. Sendak has been a New Yorker most of his life. He lived with Eugene Glynn, a psychoanalyst, for 50 years before Dr. Glynn’s death in May 2007.

He never told his parents about his sexual orientation: “All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.”

Sendak stayed in the closet for several decades. He said that the idea of a gay man writing children books would have hurt his career when he was in his 20s and 30s.

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