Doctor Dolittle also uses common language to refer to other animals. For example, he is extremely concerned that Sophie, a seal who was kidnapped from her natural home, lost her husband, and releases ...

NEW YORK — When Tom Hewitt’s Dr. Dolittle talks to the animals, the puppeteers talk back. The current road tour of the Leslie Bricusse tuner has been markedly retooled from its original 1998 London ...

Hugh Lofting's storybooks about a British doctor who could speak to animals have been classics almost since they first appeared in 1920. Anderson, a linguistics and cognitive psychology professor at ...

Dolittle begins with a tragedy. Dr. Dolittle (Downey)’s wife Lily (Kasia Smutniak) went on a voyage without him and died at sea. So Dolittle has been moping around the house with only the animals he ...

A fresh musical stage version of the Dr. Dolittle stories is on a U.S. tour. Mark Nootbaar of NPR station WDUQ says this version may be the closest yet to the vision of Hugh Lofting, creator of the ...

Doctor Dolittle by Tethered Wits, presented at The Actors' Church as part of their Theatre in the Garden Summer Season. Doctor Dolittle likes animals. In fact, he likes them so much he fills his house ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hubert G. Wells, a longtime Hollywood animal trainer whose many credits include the original Doctor Dolittle, Out of Africa, Babe: ...

Working Life is a monthly column in which Texans talk about their jobs. Sandra Larson, who is 72, is an animal whisperer in Anna, 45 miles north of Dallas; she helps pet owners understand what ails ...

So many of us know the song "If We Could Talk To The Animals" and hum it from time to time. It begins: If we could talk to the animals, Just imagine it, Chatting to a chimp in chimpanzee Imagine ...

Doctor Dolittle by Tethered Wits, presented at The Actors' Church as part of their Theatre in the Garden Summer Season. Doctor Dolittle likes animals. In fact, he likes them so much he fills his house ...