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...needle of my own verdict is stuck somewhere between 1) and 2). I am a man who finds even presidential hand-holding (those Hansel-and-Gretel moments with Bill and Hillary and Al and Tipper skipping across the White House lawn as if they were children on a trip to the zoo) to be ridiculous. But the Gores' kiss was so over the top as to command a new kind of attention. If the kiss was manipulative, it was daringly so. I search my memory for historical precedents.... Dick and Pat Nixon in Miami Beach in 1972? Bess and Harry...
...each day, yet children up to age five need adult help to process what they are seeing. Children use stories to explore the feelings they can't yet express. Fairy tales and legends give children important exposure to their darker anxieties: people roasting in the oven in Hansel and Gretel or being eaten by a giant in Jack and the Beanstalk. But without an adult to help children articulate what they are seeing, these stories can be disturbing or can desensitize them to the consequences of real violence...
...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...