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...Russian rivers. They reached Rome, Baghdad, the Caspian Sea, probably Africa too. Buddhist artifacts from northern India have been found in a Swedish Viking grave, as has a charcoal brazier from the Middle East." The Hagia Sophia basilica in Istanbul has a Viking inscription in its floor. A Mycenaean lion in Venice is covered with runes of the Norse alphabet...
...been tearing up the box office nor instantly acquiring legendary status like the films of old. So here's my hypothesis. Just think of the Disney films that everyone likes the best - with some variation, you'll probably come up with Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Cinderella, 101 Dalmatians, The Lion King, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, maybe The Rescuers, as your basic canon of Disney masterpieces (though I do find it strange that Disney labels every movie it releases on video, a "Disney Masterpiece" - doesn't that dilute the force of the term? Why is The Fox and the Hound...
...took whose name I remember as English Poets of the 17th Century, Not Including Any Poet You've Ever Heard Of. In any case, it is definitely not true that I used to think Beowulf was a story about a wolf--a sort of companion piece to The Lion King or Bambi...
...this fractured fairy tale for adults, based on a Carlo Gozzi fable, The Lion King's Julie Taymor again shows why she's the theater's champion beguiler. Characters wear silvery masks with oversize jowls and noses; there are singing apples, floating skulls, talking statues, a soothsayer who channels old radio jingles, and a traffic jam performed by actors with '50s sedans on their heads. Taymor's liberating stage ideas, rendered with elegant simplicity, are a wonder...
...surrounded by gnawed ribs and a boiling jerrycan of guts and organs. Their adolescent systems were so jazzed by the unaccustomed protein that they fairly vibrated. They were fiercely alive, and would be ready presently to do what a warrior must do to prove himself a man: hunt the lion...