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...captured, and monetized, a long-simmering cultural trend. TV's Fractured Fairy Tales parodied Grimm classics, as have movies like The Princess Bride and Ever After and the books on which Shrek and Wicked were based. And highbrow postmodern and feminist writers, such as Donald Barthelme and Angela Carter, Robert Coover and Margaret Atwood, used the raw material of fairy stories to subvert traditions of storytelling that were as ingrained in us as breathing or to critique social messages that their readers had been fed along with their strained peas...
...rising, incumbents do well (Ronald Reagan in 1984, Bill Clinton in 1996), or the incumbent's party does well (George H.W. Bush in 1988). When the wrong-track number goes up, the party in power gets ousted. The public wants change and gets it by defeating the incumbent--Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H.W. Bush...
...winning candidate Taylor Hicks, barely acknowledging his debut album on the show and taking every opportunity to criticize him in the media. My hours on the phone were rewarded last month in Nashville when Hicks delivered an emotional performance of everything from his original music to that of the Carter Family. It was the best vote I have cast in 28 years. Mary Kissel, OWENSBORO, KENTUCKY...
...other mother-daughter relationship film you’ve seen. Despite the trailer’s implication that the movie revolves around a romantic tryst between Ryan’s on-screen daughter Lucy (Kristen Stewart, “Panic Room”) and Brody’s heartbroken Carter, “Women” is primarily concerned with the dynamic between Lucy, her mother Sarah (Ryan), and the personal issues they each tackle.Sarah, a lonely suburban housewife, suffers from breast cancer and struggles to make a substantive connection with her eldest daughter. Lucy, your typical too-cool...
...better [April 16]. But the powers that be at Idol have gone out of their way to undermine winning candidate Taylor Hicks. My hours on the phone were rewarded last month in Nashville when Hicks delivered an emotional performance of everything from his original music to that of the Carter Family. It was the best vote I have cast in 28 years...