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...move back home after a year to earn money, he battled drug and alcohol problems, and, after moving to Los Angeles in 1997, he lost his girlfriend of seven years, who died from a series of strokes related to a congenital heart defect. (Letts now lives with actress Nicole Wiesner...
...those parodies had a dominant fairy-tale tradition to rebel against. The strange side effect of today's meta-stories is that kids get exposed to the parodies before, or instead of, the originals. My two sons (ages 2 and 5) love The Three Pigs, a storybook by David Wiesner in which the pigs escape the big bad wolf by physically fleeing their story (they fold a page into a paper airplane to fly off in). It's a gorgeous, fanciful book. It's also a kind of recursive meta-fiction that I didn't encounter before reading John Barth...
...DAVID WIESNER...
...enters the real world of modern Manhattan. Then there's Gnomeo & Juliet, a musical remake of Shakespeare's tragedy (it worked for West Side Story) featuring garden gnomes, with songs by executive producer Elton John. Disney is also developing a new Three Little Pigs, using Caldecott Award winner David Wiesner's postmodern take on the porkers. But animaniacs don't see most classic Disney characters getting a face-lift. As Edna says, "Never look back, darling. It distracts from...
...CARY A. WIESNER West Branch, Iowa...