Word: cinderella
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...talk to me about ideas or cinematic flair. The basic, and simplest, pleasure of art will always be that of the recognition. I recognize that this movie is based on the Cinderella prototype. Set in a trendy and capricious L.A. high-school, She's All That is a fairy tale about the undoing of the golden age of senior class president, honor student and captain to the soccer team, Zack Siler (Freddie Prinze, Jr.). His status is threatened when his prom queen shoo-in girlfriend (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) returns from spring break with a tattoo and a new boyfriend...
Worst of all, marketability has a measurable effect on the athletic contests themselves. In college football last year, for example, Kansas State, a Cinderella team which was only double-over-time loss away from college football's national championship game, was knocked out the four most prestigious bowl games because the Wildcats did not have the drawing power of big-name football schools like Florida and Texas A&M. This in turn hit the university in its pocketbook: Kansas State, which would have made $12 million in a top-tier bowl game, instead drew a $1 million payout...
...anyway, as I was saying... We leave this place, bags in tow, Heidegger in our hip-pockets, and who sweeps in to fill our vacuum but all these old people? This year, they did so to an old-style British "Panto," a comical take on the fairy tale "Cinderella"; a traditional "St. George and the Dragon" mummers play; lots of familiar carols and rounds, including the ceremonial "Boar's Head Carol" from Oxford; Susan Cooper's classic solstice poem "The Shortest Day" and a spectacular rendition of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" you'll never forget. And, as always, Revels...
Having Richard Schickel write about Walt Disney is the equivalent of having the wicked stepmother critique Cinderella. What were you expecting from a noted anti-Disney author like Schickel? Disney, a man who made us laugh, who was called "Uncle" by generations of American children, who built an empire with his brother and revolutionized corporate America (Where would the 1990s be without synergy or branding?), deserved better. JOSH P. EDWARDS Naples, Maine
...flavor of the night, altogether appropriate for the everpresent harvest theme. One dessert pays homage to the bulbous fruit in myriad ways: "The Pumpkin Patch" offers a pumpkin pot-de-creme, pumpkin strudel, pumpkin preserves, pumpkin ice cream and pumpkin brittle, all for $8. Enough to do Cinderella proud. For a bit more variety, the Harvest Ginger Bread is dense, not overly sweet and peppered with chunks of caramelized ginger. It is normally served with rice pudding ice cream (although quite tasty topped with the aforementioned pumpkin ice cream) and caramelized pear cranberry compote. A traditional yet exceptional thin-crust...