The Velveteen Rabbit Gets Cameo in Up in the Air

Why on earth is the runaway groom reading The Velveteen Rabbit in Up in the Air? "Very powerful," George Clooney comments sardonically, paying little attention to the picture book that is evidently proving supremely comforting to the fellow whose impending wedding has just provoked a mortality crisis. As the groom points out, once you get married, you also have kids and then they grow up—and you die.
Why The Velveteen Rabbit? Margery Williams used the subtitle: How Toys Become Real for the ...