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 ...
DECATUR – Anyone who remembers cartoon stars Rocky and Bullwinkle also remembers the segment “Fractured Fairy Tales.” The words appeared on the TV screen, and a giant foot came down and crushed the ...
Kids were participating in fractured fairy tales and crafts this morning at the Grand Island Public Library. “We talked about the original fairy tale, and then we read a fractured fairy tale,” library ...
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 ...
Once upon a time, an ogre named Shrek lived in a mythical but nonetheless insalubrious swamp. He was green. He was overweight. He liked to take mud showers. He made candles out of his own earwax.
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 ...
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" ...
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 ...