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PALO ALTO, Calif.--Cinderella is alive and well, and she has enchanted the Harvard women's basketball team...
...road was not an easy one, however, as it took a gruesome nine-game losing streak which ended regular season play before Harvard would rebound and make its Cinderella run. The story that year was injuries, and at one point during the infamous winless streak, more than a third of the Crimson's players were sidelined with physical ailments. The coaches, players and fans hoped for a much easier ride the following season, but once again adversity became the Crimson watchword...
Enter Fox's spanking new Anastasia. Very roughly based on the real Anastasia Nikolaevna, Fox's young lady lives out a modern rags-to-riches Cinderella tale--whereas the real Anastasia was born in 1901 and murdered in 1918 along with the rest of her immediate family by the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinberg...
Here, though, the Fox studios did not approach the life of Anastasia with the primary intention of recasting history. Rather, they were only searching for the obligatory princess heroine that every animated flick features. Consider the vast range that have appeared in Disney's canon, from Snow White and Cinderella to Ariel, the princess under the sea, Pocahontas, the Indian princess, and Jasmine, the sultan's daughter, to name but a few. As Anya herself astutely observes, "I guess that every lonely girl hopes she's a princess." One can only imagine where this will lead--perhaps Disney's Diana...
...somehow neglected her characteristic earthiness and honesty in favor of the slickness of the package. Ironically, Lord is most disappointed in the delivery of the last two songs on the album, which returned to the acoustic route. Her versions of Pete Droge's "Sunspot Stopwatch" and Peter Laughner's "Cinderella Backstreet," she laments, were "done a long time ago" and therefore "rough around the edges." It's a little dubious, then, whether a full-length band album can successfully maintain the sincerity of Mary Lou Lord while integrating studio production elements...