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2. Summer films are for kids, winter films for adults. Not lately. This past winter played like the Nickelodeon Channel on the big screen. The four $100 million-plus movies were based on fairy tales (Beauty and the Beast, Hook) or kooky TV turns (The Addams Family, Wayne's World...
One fears the deadly approach of pacifist sentimentality, some variation on those World War I tales of Yuletide fraternization in no-man's-land. A Midnight Clear, which is based on a William Wharton novel, evades that onslaught. Loopy Mother sees to that. And even if he had not come...
Though some of the children's tales verged on the fantastic, their testimony proved strong enough to convict Kelly, 44, on 99 counts of sexually abusing a dozen children at his preschool in this remote town perched on the edge of Albemarle Sound.The verdict brought to an end the longest...
MAGICAL THINGS, SHOES. Myths and fairy tales are cluttered with them. There is the old woman who lived in a shoe and the young woman, in Hans Christian Andersen's The Red Shoes, who died for one. Cinderella's glass slippers and Dorothy's ruby pumps still tiptoe around the...
The nonfiction award went to The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, energy specialist Daniel Yergin's best-selling history of oil and how it has misshaped culture in the U.S., from fast food to foreign policy. The Pulitzer Board also voted a special award to Art...