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...Everywhere in the culture, meanwhile, children's entertainment is crossing over to adult audiences and gaining mainstream cachet, from Harry Potter books to Pixar animation. London's National Theatre this year scored one of its biggest successes with a lavish, dense and sensationally entertaining two-part adaptation of Philip Pullman's young-adult trilogy His Dark Materials. In a world in which Madonna writes children's books and hip grownup film critics put Shrek on their 10 Best lists, it should have come as no surprise that a musical for little kids called A Year with Frog and Toad wound...
...film features a so-so B-list cast with Sarah Michelle Gellar starring as Karen, the non-vampire-slaying, non-mystery-solving exchange student in Toyko, Bill Pullman as Peter, an ill-fated professor and Grace Zabriskie as Emma, an elderly woman who’s either a heavy heroin addict or a precog. Except for Zabriskie reinventing the doped-up old woman role, the rest of the cast disappoints—especially Gellar. Sure, she can wield a wooden stake, seduce her brother and spot Scooby Doo like no one else, but Gellar just can’t handle...
...world, Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, come from fantasy novels. A group of outrageously talented writers is busy rescuing fantasy from under a mountain of New Age junk, collectible card games and heavy-metal album covers: J.K. Rowling, of course, but also Neil Gaiman, Phillip Pullman, China Mieville and George R.R. Martin. Now a fortysomething silver-haired British book editor named Susanna Clarke has done something even they couldn't. She has written Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Bloomsbury; 800 pages), a chimera of a novel that combines the dark mythology of fantasy with the delicious social comedy...
...Crimson Arts theater critic Sandra E. Pullman can be reached at pullman@fas.harvard.edu...
...Crimson Arts visual arts critic Sandra E. Pullman be reached at pullman@fas.harvard.edu...