Even the most hardened of humbuggers among us has trouble grumbling at full-Grinch when confronted each holiday TV season with the holy trinity of Christmas fables. By these, I mean It’s a Wonderful ...
The Brothers Grimm’s collection of Germanic fairy tales, in its unadulterated form, is not exactly soothing bedtime fodder for the little crumb-crushers. Human existence in Grimm Land is generally ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Walt Disney Co. is hoping a fractured fairy tale that swaps Manhattan for a magic kingdom, a divorce lawyer for a prince, and roaches and pigeons for wholesome forest ...
Two decades after their last collaboration, Marion Cotillard reunites with filmmaker Lucile Hadzihalilovic for “The Ice Tower,” a fractured fable that lifts as much from the work of Hans Christian ...
HOT SPRINGS - Tons of magical fun awaits in the original, one-of-a-kind fractured fairy tale farce “Haphazardly Ever After,” which will be presented Nov. 20 and 21 at the Mueller Civic Center Theater, ...
“Rocky and his Friends” was my favorite cartoon show in the early 1960s. Amusingly cockeyed, it featured Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle the Moose battling Boris and Natasha, two bumbling ...
Once upon a time there were two musicals that began with the words “Once upon a time.” Into the Woods, now at WaterTower Theatre in Addison, and Brooklyn the Musical, on a national tour stop at the ...
Finally, the full story can be told. For too long, Little Red Riding Hood's version of the whole wolf-in-Grandma's-clothes thing has been taken as gospel. But the smarmy animated musical "Hoodwinked" ...
About three decades ago, when “Saturday Night Live” was actually funny, they had a regular bit called “Bad Playhouse,” in which Dan Ackroyd as Leonard Pimpf Garnel would introduce pretentious, ...