Word: gretel
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...After directing a live-action, all-Oriental cast version of Hansel and Gretel for Disney's new cable station in the same year as Vincent, Burton was then allowed to develop and direct "Frankenweenie", a 25-minute film that served as a precursor for all of Burton's work to come. In the short feature, ten-year-old suburbanite Victor Frankenstein (Barret Oliver of Neverending Story fame) reanimates his dead dog, Sparky. Filmed in black-and-white, with make-up on Sparky complete with little neck bolts and stitches, "Frankenweenie" was a modest success for the filmmaker that eventually opened...
...scary. Its appeal to the younger set is not so much in its "bold sense of withholding" and "seeming artlessness" but in its Grimm-Golding mix, which zeroes in on the adolescent psyche's worst fears: fear of getting lost in the woods (a la Hansel and Gretel)--leaving home and being without guidance--and fear of the anarchy and tragedy that can ensue without adult supervision (a la Lord of the Flies). Coupled with the reality of the recent high school shootings, this is truly a "grimm" tale that hit gold. LAURA CAHNERS-FORD Charlotte...
...Grim: It is one of the most bizarre advertising campaigns to appear on television in recent years, and yet its segments contain more far-reaching wit than almost any other 1 1/2 minutes of must-see TV. Promoting MTV, the Jukka Brothers slots create a kind of Hansel and Gretel-meets-Deliverance world in which coolness-deprived backcountry woodsmen learn about the outside universe only through the bikini-filled music network. When's the movie...
Nevertheless, at the elementary school, principal David Thompson is an unabashed Benz booster. When the school needed extra buses to transport pupils to the ballet, Thompson said, Mercedes provided them. And when the car company learned the school was mounting a production of Hansel and Gretel, it dispatched several of its expats to help the pupils learn German songs. The experience made a lasting impression on the students. As Thompson put it, "They couldn't tell you your multiplication tables if you asked them. If you say, 'What's 9 times 7?', they probably have already forgotten it. But they...
Travel six miles up a dirt road in Oklahoma's Ozarks and you will reach a 400-acre, semi-religious encampment called Elohim City. There you will find a vine-covered structure roofed over with polyurethane foam, looking oddly like the cottage in the tale of Hansel and Gretel. This is the Worship House. Within it Elohim's spiritual father, Robert Millar, 71, preaches a mix of Christian Scripture and heterodox tales of Germanic, Celtic and Scandinavian tribes--the true Israelites who will provide God's terrible soldiers at Armageddon. Lately, though, the elfin, white-bearded patriarch of the Christian...