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Elizabeth Grimm...
...course the tears and truths of the human condition reside within these stories. But there are many truths. At the beginning of this century, Chesterton praised fairy tales because they provided the child a "St. George to kill the dragon." For Poet W.H. Auden, a reading of the Grimm Brothers could serve to "restore to parents the right and the duty to educate their children." Between these two terminals there are millions of valid interpretations - as many as there are readers and critics. Pace Bettelheim, enchantment has more uses today than did once upon a time...
...time he was 40, the little fairy tales had propelled Hans to the courts and palaces of Europe; in America, he was given a place with the Brothers Grimm. The comparison slighted the Dane. The Germans had collected their stories in the Black Forest; Andersen had pulled his from his brain...
...even the Brothers Grimm would have dared to write a fairy tale about a girl who started at the top and stayed there. But that is the story of Marisa Berenson, 28, the suffering heroine of Barry Lyndon. The French fashion magazine Elle once called Marisa "the most beautiful girl in the world." That is not precisely accurate (both the mouth and nose are a trifle too large), but it conveys the right idea...
...questionable poem was written more than 40 years ago by Joseph Moncure March, another of whose works was the basis for Robert Wise's excellent film about small-time boxing, The Set-Up (1948). It recounts the sad, eventually violent doings at the home of Funnyman Jolly Grimm (James Coco), whose career as a silent-film star has suffered from the coming of sound. After a five-year absence, Jolly is staging the world première of his. new comedy and inviting everyone to his Hollywood mansion. Doug and Mary are having a do over at Pickfair, however...