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A few years later, Jaws and Star Wars became successively the all-time top-grossing movies, and the teen market announced itself as the dominant one. Why make movies for adults, the moguls asked rhetorically, when the kids are our most reliable customers? The best American movies were no longer...
As China's economic growth has surged to astonishing levels in recent years, a matching wave of books chronicling its rise has poured from the presses of publishers in Europe and the U.S. Many of these tend to be rather breathless accounts of how China's boom is affecting its...
As is the case in many fairy tales, the characters tended not to act rationally, and some plot details were overlooked: Prince Roderick climbed in and out of Rapunzel’s tower without bothering to use her rope of hair, and when the maiden escaped her stairless perch, she...
In recent years, the most popular fairy tales of our youth have become fractured. Unexpectedly complex characters, like the reflective and philosophical witches of “Wicked” or even the computer-animated ogres of “Shrek,” often warp the traditional once-upon...
The characters were exaggerated to stereotypical extremes, but where a few—like worry-stricken Martinius—were glaringly overacted, others were more skilfully caricatured. McEachern, for instance, conveyed the grief and lovesickness of his Prince Roderick with hilarious whimsy, and much of the play exuded a melodramatic...