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Faerie Tale Theatre (Showtime). These slightly fractured but never completely Grimm tales, produced by Actress Shelley Duvall, give a hip, witty twist and dreamy visual style to storybook classics...
DIED. Charlie Grimm, 85, exuberant, banjo-playing major league first baseman (1916-36), who in three terms as manager of the Chicago Cubs led the team to three pennants ('32, '35, '45); in Scottsdale, Ariz. Jolly Cholly's antic disposition reached a high point in a dreary 1940s game when, as coach, he signaled a player to slide into third, then slid into the base himself from the opposite side...
...born in 1939, I too grew up on the war. The tales of my childhood were more often stories from the front than Grimm or Mother Goose. A disabled Marine told me that the Japanese had green blood-that's why they craved red American blood. And one time I saw snapshots of Japanese atrocities in a P.O.W. camp. For a while thereafter I did not doubt that blood came in different colors...
...GRIMM'S WOULD HAVE ended the story of Grace Kelly 26 years ago, with "happily ever after." That was when she turned into a princess. Close the book, shut your eyes, dream sweet, romantic dreams, and give no thought to what "ever after" might mean, except some sort of indescribable, endless happiness. Grimm's would never have ended the story the way it really ended last week, in a tangled, twisted pile of metal at the bottom of a ravine. Fairy tales don't end in car wrecks...
...modern Grimm idiom, all storybook romances make hot story properties. So, well ahead of a real-life heir, a script has been conceived and delivered, and filming has begun, on Charles and Diana: A Royal Romance, a two-hour movie to be aired by CBS later this year. Since most of the authentic locales for the tale (places like Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle) are currently occupied and unavailable for film production, the movie is being shot in the mansions of Long Island, Connecticut and upstate New York. Prince Charles is portrayed by Christopher Baines, a British stage actor...