| 单词 | fairy tale |
| 例句 | He was like the sleeping prince in a fairy tale, and she had the urge to kiss him. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He looked like a prince from a fairy tale, and Ophie noticed that he did not wear the house shoes like she and her mother did, instead tracking dirty snow slush across the carpets. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Jim Button was motherless, too—and all you found in fairy tales were wicked stepmothers; heartless, jealous stepmothers...the list could go on forever. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z They sat next to each other, Cora with a history or a romance, and Molly turning the pages of a fairy tale. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “The most healthy among them are lying abed, reading out fairy tales to one another.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Inside the box was a book of fairy tales. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z In turn, the princess told the mouse fairy tales, drew him pixelated portraits, and made him little crayon drawings. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z He quickly felt as if he had wandered into a German fairy tale. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z When Mrs. Sylvester stood in the middle of them with her scarf on her head and the big bag of swan food in her arms, she looked like something out of a fairy tale. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z They argued passionately with the village greenwitches, claiming that all those fairy tales were nothing but the stuff of nonsense — there were no greenies or goblins. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But up to now all my fairy tales have been too long, so I don’t think I have much of a chance. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The moon lit the wide front hall in pale ribbons, turning the dust and broken bits of chair and wainscoting and climbing vines from feral houseplants into fairy tale turrets. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z "Lady Lazarus" and "Daddy" and all of Anne Sexton's reimagined fairy tales. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z It was far enough from the Royal City to make the philosophy being preached by the King’s many advisors seem stranger than the fairy tales most mothers told their children. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There were many other strange doings and bizarre myths, legends, and fairy tales that, taken loosely together, had wound up giving the town and the Miracle Valley their names. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She has never not seemed strange to me, like a creature from a fairy tale, pale as a ghost. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z At the last fire, a book of fairy tales, he'd glanced at a single line. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z What would everyone say, those scholars who’d mocked him, if they knew a fairy tale had held the key to azoth? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I told her a fairy tale about a prince with a long nose who loved a princess with a short nose. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Why is it in fairy tales, wishes always backfire?” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I pick the path through the trees, and it’s like stepping into a fairy tale. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “With that long braid, you could be a princess in a fairy tale—Rapunzel perhaps.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The wine was steaming and bubbling, and it came to Tristran then—the information surfacing from some long-forgotten fairy tale or piece of children's lore—that a unicorn's horn was proof against... Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it was a fairy tale that hadn’t been told yet. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Once Vincent could read, he did so voraciously, mostly fairy tales and novels. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But in this day and age, who would have thought fairy tales could come to life? Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Tall, merry, and rich, those girls were like princesses in a fairy tale. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “It’s probably just some fairy tale for children,” Uncle said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Gram told me that as a little boy, he was never interested in hearing fairy tales or reading books together like she and I did. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z At that age, fairy tales were dark, simple things, their hidden metaphors worn down so that they fit comfortably in a child’s grasping hands. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Ivy thought that sounded magical—swimming the butterfly—like something out of a fairy tale. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I sleep like the little white girl slept in that fairy tale for what feels like a hundred years. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z When I was certain both of them were soundly asleep, I dared to fetch Mandy’s other present, the book of fairy tales, out of my bag. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Lady Isobel said they would return in the spring, so Ash packed her two books of fairy tales and all her winter dresses. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “May I suggest a simple, harmless fairy tale, then?” the lead actor said, with only a touch of condescension. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The overall bluntness of much of my life, the enforced reality of it, kept me from completely believing in things like psychic abilities, especially those from animals or other possible fairy tales. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z After the dinner, things became even more like a fairy tale. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But even in fairy tales, these kindly old gentlemen with their fascinating offers are not always what they seem to be. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It was a child's vow from fairy tales, where breaking it was a curse, and it was more powerful to Lazlo than any vow on god or monarch would have been. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In his view, “the ban on gruesome fairy tales, terrifying nursemaids and other standard sources of horror, has left most of the population” vulnerable to scary stories and situations. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “She looks just like a sleeping princess in a fairy tale,” said Louisiana. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z I think we felt as if we were in a fairy tale of our own, because everywhere we looked there were shiny new things that our grandparents thought we’d need for life in Spring. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She should be reading fairy tales and taking her nickels to the sweet shop for a bag of penny candy. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “In the fairy tales, the princess never does the wrong thing.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Excellent stories for this type of activity include folk tales or fairy tales from around the world. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z It had all been so ordinary, even boring, and now it seemed like a fairy tale. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z From the fairy tales, I’ve learned exactly who the enemy are. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I was a little girl, fairy tales were my favorite books because even before you opened them, you knew how they were going to end. Happily ever after.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The sun had risen, and Thyon Nero wasn’t reading fairy tales now. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It looks ominous, like the deep forests of fairy tales. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z His hair had grown out longer and shaggier, and his face was leaner, so he looked less like an imp and more like one of those willowy elves in the fairy tales. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I am disappearing into a fairy tale forest. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z But even if magic was so rare it was more like myth than reality, the people of that country still loved their fairy tales. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the first week of Twelfthmoon, on the far side of the Elmuthaleth, and Strange the dreamer—library stowaway and scholar of fairy tales—had never been thirstier, or more full of wonder. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In fairy tales, things are always changing into something else. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z But he thinks that is the stuff of fairy tales, not real life. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In all the fairy tales she had read, the fairies were described as unnaturally beautiful, and now Ash knew what that meant. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am going to love fencing in here. It will truly feel like a fairy tale.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The sheriff said, “Better the truth than a fairy tale.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “This isn’t a fairy tale, Red,” he would say. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It was almost funny—not just that the truth had been found in a fairy tale, but that the great secret ingredient should prove so common a thing as a bodily fluid. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When his father told him that long story, it really seemed like Jack and the Beanstalk . . . some fairy tale mess. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s the Dewey decimal number for fairy tales.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z She was happy to discover that she could get through most of the first story, a fairy tale about a girl who wore a big hat that wouldn’t come off, ever. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “You’ll make a teller of fairy tales yet if you carry on like that, fire-eater!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Tonight, his brother-in-law the priest, who spent his life in the fairy tale world of the Church, dressed up like Liberace, had figured things out for once. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It reminded me of a Grimm Brothers forest, drawing up the nervous feelings I used to get when I stepped into the pages of fairy tales where unthinkable things were likely—you just never knew. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She wrote like it was a fairy tale, and reading those pages felt like peeking into the Mom of ten years ago: the Mom who wrote a book and nursed a baby. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Our life is a freaking dismal fairy tale. A maaaagical fairy tale.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Hugo also remembered that sometimes at night, Father would read to him from amazing adventure stories byjules Verne and a collection of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales, which were Hugo’s favorites. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Cassie thought heaven was a fairy tale for stupid people. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z But this isn’t a fairy tale, and there was no spell. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She went into her room and opened the trunk, and there at the bottom were her books of fairy tales, her mother's herbal, and the medallion — Sidhean's final gift to her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll tell you how far it got with me though. Since I’ve come here I find myself thinking of Chinese fairy tales my father told me. We Chinese have a well- developed demonology.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Deep down he had the feeling that somehow it would change everything, the way in fairy tales magic was spoiled if you shared the secret. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “You told me a fairy tale once,” he said, “and now I have one to tell you.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A fairy tale that started with “once upon a time” and ended with “happily ever after.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z She didn’t like dolls, fairy tales were childish, and one couldn’t draw all the time. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, I don’t. All this talk of fairy tales.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Her mother had told her plenty of fairy tales, of course. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There were some common threads among the fairy tales she had read. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One evening as we all sat grouped around the stove I told the kids a fairy tale I’d just read. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “What good are fairy tales if we can’t even find our way?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “What I mean is, I think there’s some truth in every story—every story worth telling, at least—but especially in fairy tales.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Unmedicated sleep was impossible, a fairy tale, some remote childhood dream. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They look like glass, like the ones Cinderella wears, straight out of a fairy tale. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I want to ask the magazine The Prince if they’ll take one of my fairy tales, under a pseudonym, of course. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z These were fairy tales, which did nothing to alter the narrowness of their existence. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She said, “And if I remember correctly you and your mother had quite different tastes in books. I remember your mother used to like mysteries and fairy tales, isn’t that so?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z It is a world where the enchanted forest of the fairy tales has become the poisonous forest in which an insect that chews a leaf or sucks the sap of a plant is doomed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The end of the war still seemed so far away, so unreal, like a fairy tale. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It was like a fairy tale, something that just didn’t happen anymore. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If this were a fairy tale, I would tell you there was something magical about Samar. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “What if he u1 down there,” I say, “but he’s magic like in that fairy tale ‘The Fisherman and His Wife.’” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “She believed them and now is looking for fairy tales.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The family spent most of their time here: they ate their meals, played games, and read novels and fairy tales together in the evenings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “You really are a fairy tale. Princess Madeline and the Glass Castle.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But they’d always seemed like ghost stories and fairy tales, stories that could never come true. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z She wasn't particularly fond of fairy tales, but the book looked attractive. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z It was the old Mexican fairy tale of the Queen of the Clouds and the witch. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Sidhean had said that what he felt for her was as real as she was, and from what she recalled from the fairy tales, a glamour was only an illusion. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She had been reading an old fairy tale that afternoon, and when she finished the story, she looked up through the leaves across the river and saw a woman there. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The place was magical, like something out of a fairy tale. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z That was the idea you got from fairy tales. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z “You live in a fairy tale for that one year of your life,” said his wife. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like something out of a fairy tale. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z If this were a fairy tale, I’d tell you there was something magical about that Wishing Day. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z My dad wondered if he should have read me more fairy tales. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was a collection of Norwegian fairy tales, and I read the first one. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z And, just like in the fairy tale, it will be a perfect fit. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I was only in second grade, but already the kids in my class didn’t like fairy tales much anymore. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z "Anyone here think I'm a monster? That's such a strong word. Usually reserved for creatures in fairy tales. Not princesses. Not future queens." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “But The Hobbit's basically just a fairy tale.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z They clapped for Claire, who looked like the Snow Queen in the fairy tale, white and glittering. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The liberation we’ve all talked so much about, which still seems too good, too much of a fairy tale ever to come true? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Don’t you know, Ellemire? Strange isn’t just a librarian. He’s practically a scholar himself. Of fairy tales.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “It looks like a kingdom in a fairy tale,” Gittel murmured, mesmerized. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He—Strange the dreamer, junior librarian—had marched into the Chrysopoesium, brandishing a book of fairy tales, and presumed to share his insights on the deepest mystery of alchemy. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The mothers and daughters in fairy tales match like a pair of socks, but we are opposites. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I own a well-used library card, an envelope full of dried beach roses, a book of fairy tales, and a handful of lovely purple rocks. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She was supposed to be with him, not eating tube cookies and speaking in fairy tales. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Their names were as strange to me as their contents: Pinocchio, Aesop’s Fables and the fairy tales of the brothers Grimm. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The illustration is of a knight on horseback, like a knight from a fairy tale. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She wasn’t like the Mother Earth you might read about in a children’s fairy tale. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A sort of mystical fairy tale, it romanticized and celebrated the simple life of German farmers living harmoniously with nature on their German soil. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z And then she thought about how in fairy tales people got three wishes and none of the wishes ever turned out right. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z He knew just which books each of us liked best and that I would choose fairy tales, Ji-yong would get adventure stories, and Ji-yun would want animal stories. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought fairy tales were supposed to have happy endings. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z But how can fairy tales be true when they all end the same way? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The kind of fabrics that princesses in fairy tales wear. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But mostly, we spent our time in the Spinney or down by the river, where Gram told me fairy tales while she painted. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z She paused, watching Ash finish the last of the venison, and then said, “On the subject of traditions ... you have never told me your favorite fairy tale.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sorry, but I don’t live in a fairy tale. I live in the real world, where people solve their...” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z As she mounted her horse, Ash looked up at her and said, “I do have a favorite fairy tale.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z What fairy tale ever held so much by way of contradiction? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z With my messy ponytails and dress from the bargain basement, I feel like the fairy tale’s ragged girl with the basket of onions when I’m around Miss Mademoiselle Danielle. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z A man strode by in a pristine white coat and high fur cap, like a hero from a Slavic fairy tale. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It shows especially well his love of details and the skillful way he uses them to make a fairy tale seem realistic. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z So she had been surprised when the book that he brought back for her was a volume of fairy tales. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think of it as more of a hunting story than a fairy tale,” Kaisa said, “though there are fairies in it. Another huntress told it to me, when I was a little girl.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “And what’s more, when your father gets back I don't want you telling him I’ve been starving you. Like the wicked stepmother in the fairy tale, you know.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Her voice was soft now, like someone telling a fairy tale. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “The gas ovens I mean are no fairy tale,” Hannah said. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Until a few days ago, I'd always assumed they were fairy tales. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “This isn’t some fairy tale,” Ivy said after a few seconds. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A world of berries and carrot peels and Frau Elena’s fairy tales. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Finally he said, “is that why you sought me out? To tell me a —” He paused, his lip curling, and continued, “A fairy tale?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I suddenly remember the look Gram used to get sometimes when she was telling me her fairy tales. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Like something out of a fairy tale,” she says, grinning. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I was worried about my mom, but wartime Congo was the opposite of fairy tales: The wilderness was the safe place, not the town, because hiding was the only way to survive. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z If life is a fairy tale, I’m pretty sure I’ve been cast as the princess. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She was brushing out her long blonde hair and looked like a princess in a fairy tale, though her voice was far too matter-of-fact for a story book. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He appeared at dawn on Sunday like a prince in a fairy tale, riding a horse with silver stirrups and a velvet blanket, and he left town after mass. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Her mind flashed to the Snow Queen, to the fairy tale she and Adelaide had told. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z When I opened it, instead of a fairy tale, I found an illustration of Mandy! Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “A book of fairy tales broke your nose,” she said, helpless not to smile at how wrong her first impression had been. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “No, no memory. I have heard sugar taste like fairy tale.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And again there was unbelievable color, and gossamer wings and fruit and creatures out of fairy tales. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I had always assumed they were our generation’s version of a fairy tale. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Some things. But for a long time I thought they were fairy tales.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Eva’s Dream” is my best fairy tale, and the odd thing is that I don’t have the faintest idea where it came from. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z When most Lackses talked about Henrietta and Day and their early life in Clover, it sounded as idyllic as a fairy tale. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But didn't all the dragons from the fairy tales get slain? Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “So you—you don’t think it can be a fairy tale or a myth?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Shaped by fairy tales, she thought, which made it better than every straight nose in the world. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A real fairy tale this time, “The Shoemaker and the Elves.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I would be told of in fairy tales myself. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Also Sherlock Holmes doesn’t believe in the supernatural, which is God and fairy tales and Hounds of Hell and curses, which are stupid things. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Will I really ever see her again, or is that a fairy tale? Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “I mean that your friend wants us to chase fairy tales!” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She halfway believed in things not true and didn’t know where fairy tales ended. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas asked, the old fairy tale popping into his mind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It was probably just peaceful despair and relief at final and complete abnegation, now that Judith was about to immolate the frustration’s vicarious recompense into the living fairy tale. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an animated fairy tale and I didn’t like it much, either. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z But by claiming that the Jesuits dealt in fairy tales while he dealt in facts, Galileo was storing up more trouble for himself in Rome. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I suppose you’d like to hear the fairy tale you’d make me tell every night we huddled together on the ruined bridge. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “No,” Ma said, her words cracking the air around her, “she left to find a fairy tale. Never-Ending Mountain and the Old Man of the Moon! Of all the foolish things.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I find pretty fabric shoulder bags for the twins and Granddad insists on buying me a book of fairy tales at the Edgartown bookshop. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “A man of science, and yet you believe the myths. You believe in the might of reason, but you also believe in fairy tales. Goddesses and curses.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The way she held her hand was like a nightmare, like a Halloween ghost, like someone under a witch’s spell in a fairy tale. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z When Eleanor was a little girl, she'd thought her mom looked like a queen, like the star of some fairy tale. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z “The fairy tale you used to tell on the bridge?” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z This was not a fairy tale, this was the real, the adult world in which frogs did not address princesses, and the only messages were the ones that people sent. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was off center, like something out of a fairy tale. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The houses looked bent and crooked, like houses in a fairy tale. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is a fairy tale, not a hunting story.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look at that girl. She looks like she’s from a fairy tale or something.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The magical wallet and cap belong to the properties fairy tales abound in everywhere. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z A flower that blooms only at night sounds like something out of a fairy tale. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “We’re not asking you for no fairy tale,” Ma Charles said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Only in cartoons and fairy tales and greeting cards do endings have glitter. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z When it’s wet like this, it usually takes the fluff and fairy tale off her, making her seem more ordinary, more like the rest of us, but not today. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Three years stuck in Ojo de Agua, and I was like that princess put to sleep in the fairy tale. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’d originally wanted a practical partnership, but now I think I’m getting the fairy tale anyway.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z His hair was still dark, and hers was still cinnamon, and his nose was the victim of velvet-bound fairy tales, and her mouth was damson-lush. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It had seemed to Adina then to be a TV fairy tale: All those pretty girls smiling and waving and showing off their tumbling skills. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z In fairy tales, kids almost always have terrible moms. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z When told that the candy came from Germany—“You know, the fairy tale and the Brothers Grimm,” the clerk said—Bobby was reassured and bought a few bars, his anti-Semitic sensibilities appeased. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It sounded like a fairy tale when Ellen told it later to your grandmother, only it was a fairy tale written for and acted by a fashionable ladies’ club. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z It floated off my tongue like the beginning of a fairy tale. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was like meeting a fairy tale — Snow White, in the flesh. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Each night before she went to sleep, she chose one fairy tale to read until the light of her candle stub died. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "Honestly,” Anne bubbled, "it’s like stepping into a fairy tale three-deep with godmothers and with wishes that come true.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Fantasy and fairy tales were never entirely intended to remove us from the world’s ills, and indeed, the most resilient myths speak directly to the multitude of forms human malice takes. "Carnival Row": Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne's fairy tale is fractured by competing narratives 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Well, there’s definitely a fairy tale going on here, though it may not be the one you’re thinking of, Cinderella. Confessions of a ‘Second-Class Grandchild’ 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z “The Beguiled,” Sofia Coppola’s new film, looks like a historical drama — it’s set in Virginia during the Civil War — but it often behaves more like a fairy tale. Review: ‘The Beguiled,’ Sofia Coppola’s Civil War Cocoon 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z SAT, THU An original fairy tale, performed by students, 6:30 p.m. Community calendar 2011-08-11T00:56:04Z “Into the Woods,” the 1987 reworking of classic fairy tales by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim, is now appearing in the unblushing altogether at the McCarter Theater on the campus of Princeton University. Theater Review: ‘Into the Woods,’ at the McCarter Theater in Princeton 2013-05-14T21:08:58Z But she proceeds to scare the other guests by turning their fairy tales about pretty girls into allows horror stories about dragons. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: The Prison of Stereotypes 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Even with a black man in the White House, it’s a fairy tale to claim we are a “post-racial” country. Modern Love: Bringing Home the Wrong Race 2011-06-03T20:16:10Z Was my vision of Christmas a relic of fairy tales? Dreaming of an Artisanal Christmas 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z There was a fairy tale surrounding Diana that was wholly false. Diana would "entirely agree with Harry's assessment of the royal family," says royals expert 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z “My story is true,” she says, adding: “You’re more likely to believe me, however, if I tell it as a fairy tale.” ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ Review: Desire, Once Upon a Time 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z She is often said to spin urban legends or fairy tales; her writing, while clear, is full of nameless currents, hidden transactions between pleasure and terror. Carmen Maria Machado’s Many Haunted Stories of a Toxic Relationship 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z In its own way “Person of Interest” is also a fairy tale. Viewing Like It?s 1979: Science Fiction and Fantasy 2011-09-17T23:45:19Z Carolyne Larrington’s “The Land of the Green Man” isn’t squarely focused on its titular figure; it is a survey crammed with every myth, legend, elf, giant, and fairy tale related to the British landscape. The Remarkable Persistence of the Green Man 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z A visit there is a step out of modernity and into a fairy tale. Does Paris Still Have the Ugliest Opera House in Europe? 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Q: Several writers and books came to mind while reading “The Accursed” — Edith Wharton, “Dracula,” Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” fairy tales of the dark persuasion, Stephen King, a Gilded Age version of Faust. From Woodrow Wilson to Twitter: A Q&A with Joyce Carol Oates 2013-03-01T02:04:15Z “Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid” promises to be a highly unique and somewhat naughty take on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. Edinburgh Festival to Feature Zinnie Harris Works and a New Alan Ayckbourn Play 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z If “The Bachelor” is our modern-day fairy tale, then who becomes its princes and princesses does matter. “The Bachelor” is still for white people: A sour fairy tale, fed to millions, that keeps prizing whiteness above all 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z The Bluebird and Princess Florine really seem to be in love, as they were in the French fairy tale on which Petipa based this variation. Ratmansky’s Beauty Wakes Up 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the particular magic that might transform a children’s fairy tale into a compelling contemporary musical remains elusive. | 'Sleeping Beauty Wakes': A Fairy Tale, Updated Without Ambien 2011-05-23T21:11:06Z Rather, it is the playful story of two friends’ adventures in a topsy-turvy world, part “Alice in Wonderland,” part Grimm fairy tale, part prescient analogue for the nonsensical cultural moment we inhabit. A Playful, Posthumous Picture Book From Maurice Sendak 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z But maybe this is the fairy tale ending that the British monarchy always deserved. What ‘Harry & Meghan’ Still Doesn’t Say About Race 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Rather, “The Blizzard” is a dark fairy tale whose most inventive scenes remain heavily indebted to classics like Homer’s “Odyssey,” Kafka’s “The Castle” and Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels.” Review: In Vladimir Sorokin’s ‘The Blizzard,’ a Doctor’s Long and Strange Trip 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Deadline first broke the news, reporting that Universal Pictures and Working Title are still planning to move forward with the film adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, with a script rewritten by Caroline Thompson. Sofia Coppola Drops Out of Live-Action 'The Little Mermaid' 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z They are refreshing songs that were written 500, 600, a thousand years ago — the songs are like fairy tales that belong to everybody. Ludovico Einaudi: A Classical Artist for the YouTube Age 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Then there was this ambiguous closing line: “It’s like a fairy tale.” Editing Donald Trump 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z It’s a sort of dark fairy tale in certain ways — it’s not necessarily meant to be completely realistic. Sam Rockwell on His Secret Past as a Really Bad Break Dancer 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z The shoe most certainly fits in this delightful, sparkling presentation of the fairy tale, scored by Prokofiev, choreographed by Kent Stowell and full of romantic moments. 17 top entertainment picks for the week of Sept. 23-29, 2012 2012-09-19T20:42:04Z In cruder versions of fairy tales, the monstrous mother is a regular presence. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z I think Beasts and Beauty will make a killer TV series, almost like a "Black Mirror" where every episode is it's one fairy tale. What would today's fairy tale look like if you could "un-Disney-fy people's brains"? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z The book opens with a fairy tale and a witch’s spell. Can one harmonica work magic for 3 kids living in troubled times? 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z His first commission, of tulip and daffodil bulbs for House & Garden magazine, was eventually followed by anthologies about mythical beasts and Cornish fairy tales. Raymond Briggs, Illustrator of ‘The Snowman,’ Dies at 88 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z For it is not just the press that wants this to be a moral and social fairy tale, but the institutions of society – the church, the political establishment. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z With its fanciful costumes, cartoonish theatrical sets and fairy tale plot, it’s like a medieval triptych psychoanalytically updated and brought to life. Art Trek: A Critic’s Guide to the Best of the Lower East Side 2014-04-03T22:41:10Z Like his stories, his books — novels, comics, novellas — skitter among genres, magpie-ing elements from science fiction, fantasy, urban fantasy, traditional fairy tales, steampunk, horror and something called weird fiction, among others. Review: China Miéville’s ‘Three Moments of an Explosion’ 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z The enchantments of her life can make it seem like a fairy tale. ‘Other People’s Children’ Review: True Romance 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z If the “Brothers of the Knight” story sounds a bit fantastical and a bit familiar, it’s based on a Brothers Grimm fairy tale called “The Twelve Dancing Princesses.” D.C. dancers tapped for ‘Brothers of the Knight’ national tour I knew it when I wrote knockoff fairy tales in kindergarten and asked my dad to “publish” them on the hospital Xerox machine. Wearing someone else's scrubs: The comfortable cotton of the road not taken 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Before it settles into a self-actualization fairy tale, “Tammy” touches on economic struggles that both connect it to the real world and suggest that Ms. McCarthy has ambitions beyond the well-executed pratfall. Review: Melissa McCarthy Takes Charge in ‘The Boss’ 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z And on Sunday, the model of the moment staged a handbag happening, surrounded by greyhounds and a fairy tale forest created by the British set designer Michael Howells. Fashion Review: Mulberry Bags Raise Eyebrows 2014-02-16T19:47:10Z Tchaikovsky’s one-act opera, “Iolanta,” is an exception to this rule, a luscious setting of a fairy tale in which a blind princess finds love and the gift of sight. Mariusz Trelinski Brings ‘Iolanta’ and ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ to the Met 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Then the photographer David Seidner introduced her to Mr. Lacroix, and in short order she was modeling for him and running around town outfitted, she said, like a princess in a fairy tale. Recalling the Lacroix Era 2013-04-19T23:17:23Z “Once on This Island,” a tragic West Indian fairy tale that won this year’s Tony Award for best musical revival, will end its Broadway run on Jan. 6. Broadway’s ‘Once on This Island’ Revival Will Close Jan. 6 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z It was in Victorian times that childhood was given all these myths and legends and fairy tales, as if it was a child’s world, not an adult’s world. Donovan to Enter Songwriters Hall of Fame 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z I saw it as kind of a horror story, or very dark Grimm Brothers fairy tale — two innocents go into the dark wood and lose their way. Q&A: Author Erik Larson nervously awaits arrival of 'Beasts' 2011-05-09T15:32:05Z He has a background in Slavic studies and draws inspiration from mythology, folklore and fairy tales. Familiar Tales Remixed, at the Hands of a Postmodern Master 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Would it be proper to think of the story of your film as a kind of double fairy tale? The Carpetbagger: The Director's Big Challenge: Not Ruining a Cinderella Story 2013-01-31T15:00:40Z The stories are liberally adapted from 17th-century Italian fairy tales, and are full of ornate settings, exorbitant costumes and stories too strange to look away. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘One Mississippi’ and ‘Son of Zorn’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z It’s not until the film’s almost over that you realize: that notebook contains a kind of fairy tale of reality more conspiratorial than anything Michael Moore contrived. 2004: ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ and a Country at War With Itself 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z “You act like finding someone is some sort of fairy tale,” Issa responds. ‘Insecure’ Season 1, Episode 7: Who’s Daniel? 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z These are stories about real people, not fairy tales. Essay: Gabriel García Márquez’s Work Was Rooted in the Real 2014-04-21T18:37:38Z This Wagner fairy tale proceeds precisely yet uneasily, the characters seemingly uncertain how exactly they’re supposed to interact. Review: A Witty ‘Lohengrin’ Returns to the Bayreuth Festival 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Based on an illustrated book by Jimmy Liao, “Starry Starry Night” is a visually transcendent fairy tale that wordlessly evokes complex childhood emotions. Movie Review: ‘Starry Starry Night,’ Directed by Tom Shu-Yu Lin 2012-07-05T23:04:06Z In a series of “bureaucratic fairy tales” that evoke the regime’s real-life propaganda, a man dreams of banners, posters, and barracks-yard voices pronouncing a “Regulation Prohibiting Residual Bourgeois Tendencies.” How Dreams Change Under Authoritarianism 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z I took 10 books the first time — illustrated books, fables, fairy tales and happy stories of white children and their kind parents. 12 Authors Write About the Libraries They Love 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z French animator Michel Ocelot has mastered his signature "shadow puppet" style in this visually dazzling series of six fairy tales, each featuring a young hero who must pass crucial tests to achieve an ultimate goal. Arts and entertainment highlights for the week beginning Nov. 18, 2012 2012-11-16T00:17:04Z Warner, in short, knows fairy tales better than Mother Goose herself. Michael Dirda reviews five fairy-tale books 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Or maybe they feel like the multiracial fairy tale is an easier sell at this point. "The Little Mermaid" and Disney's dilemma: Why no Black prince? 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z It is based on the classic fairy tale called Rapunzel about a girl with the long, very long golden hair. Not a typical 'damsel in distress' 2011-01-24T12:48:42Z I have called the film a fairy tale but you could also describe it as a horror movie, a quasi-western and a revenge melodrama, perhaps too many things at once. Review: ‘The Beguiled,’ Sofia Coppola’s Civil War Cocoon 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z It takes fairy tales to a completely different level! Heaven by Christoph Marzi - review 2012-12-31T09:00:00Z “My Brilliant Friend,” the first of the series, opens with Lila throwing Elena’s only doll into the cellar of Don Achille, a loan shark the children fear like an “ogre of fairy tales.” Elena Ferrante’s ‘Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay’ 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z I’ve been to ready-to-wear, but couture is the stuff of fairy tales. Face in the Crowd: Iggy Azalea at Armani 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z There's further resonance with the atemporal feel of fairy tales; Gibson provides both protagonists with touchingly happy endings — after each is properly harrowed. William Gibson's 'Zero History' goes on a wild ride to the recent past 2010-09-03T17:29:00Z The fairy tale concerns a mirror that reflects only the world at its worst and, once shattered, shoots dangerous splinters. A Master of Winter Writes His First Opera: ‘The Snow Queen’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Oscar Wilde Alexander Pope Jonathan Swift Shakespeare Simon the Soldier, Tarás the Stout, and Iván the Fool all feature in a fairy tale of foolery by ... Quiz: Fools in literature 2011-04-01T10:27:42Z Ms. Bachleda put it nicely: “He’s able to create a world that doesn’t really exist, but is as possible as it is impossible — some twilight zone between reality and fairy tale.” Film: Neil Jordan?s ?Ondine,? Possible World of Impossible 2010-05-28T18:58:00Z If “Für Elise” is a fairy tale, this is its tidy conclusion. Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ Doesn’t Deserve Your Eye Rolls 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Like most fairy tales, there are good and evil metaphors for little ones and grown-ups alike. Angelina Jolie is wickedly good in the not-quite-classic 'Maleficent' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z This is the context in which we read Plath’s fairy tale. A Newly Published Story for the New Way We Read Sylvia Plath 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Baum kept the rococo creatures of antique fairy tales — Munchkins and flying monkeys in place of gnomes and talking donkeys — while discarding the medieval morality. Oz Revisited – Part 2: How They Made It Wonderful 2013-09-17T15:44:25Z “I'm interested in the sort of kinship it has with fairy tales. The dark, magical beauty of horror.” Essential Arts & Culture: Zumthor's latest LACMA plan, USC's big art hires, a reparations debate, Streisand's Sondheim 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Like the fairy tales the narrator's mother told her as a girl, the deceptively plain language of "Neverhome" vibrates across the spectrum of human experience. Laird Hunt's 'Neverhome' tears a woman and a nation in two 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z If the improbable fairy tale was coyly predictable — really, who doesn’t love a happy ending? — neither Gilbert nor her publisher dreamed the book would become a cultural juggernaut. ‘Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It’: Really? We need to talk. 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Bowen has built an impressive mythology to buttress her fairy tale, and it’s a pleasure to discover this world through Simi’s eyes, even if the plot does at times get bogged down in description. 4 New Y.A. Fantasy Novels Full of Dark, Enchanting Twists 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z According to final studio estimates released on Monday, the live action version of the classic fairy tale pulled in $67.9 million in the U.S. and Canada. Box office update: 'Cinderella' falls short of 'Maleficent' debut 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z La Belle, Lost in the World of the Automaton Imago Theatre uses puppetry, animatronics, etc., in a family-friendly reimagining of the classic fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast.” The week ahead in L.A. theater, Nov. 19-26: 'Resolving Hedda' and more 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z There’s a princess fairy tale, a guy in the Peace Corps who’s tormented by his students, a bachelorette party with a special guest from a dirty movie — and that’s just the half of it. If You Thought ‘Cat Person’ Was Dark, Wait Until You Read the Rest of the Book 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Every corner of this immersive fairy tale along the English seaside is terrifically distressing yet somehow delightful. Inside Banksy’s Dismaland 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z For my own part, like Rosenberg, I saw Sansa’s scenes, which drew heavily on the tropes of fairy tales, as fitting within a wider commentary. Game of Thrones walks fine line on rape: how much more can audiences take? 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z “It’s cool that Asians got into the fairy tale.” Remember Rufio in ‘Hook’? The actor is trying to keep his cult character’s legacy alive. 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z It started when I was a kid, just reading fairy tales and watching classic Disney movies. From ‘The Simpsons’ to ‘Disenchantment’ 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Frankie and I will show them this wondrous fairy tale of a tradition near the top of the world. A Midsummer Day’s Dream in Sweden 2013-05-10T18:10:13Z Mr. McCarthy’s creation is decidedly not Disney’s version of the fairy tale. Here’s Snow White. Don’t Bring the Kids. 2013-06-19T20:20:20Z The conceit is all words, all air; it never touches down on the story, which is neither fairy tale nor song. A Zombie Novel for Our Virus-Stricken Times 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z On the domestic front, "Kong: Skull Island" is also staring down Disney's "Beauty and the Beast," a live action fairy tale that is expected to premiere to as much as $120 million next weekend. Box Office - 'Kong: Skull Island' Rules With Mighty $61 Million Debut 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z He also loves elaborately detailed costumes that bring his fairy tales to life, and he commissions poetically neo-Romantic music by Gregory Spears, which is played live. Dance Review: ?The Voyage of Garbhglas? at Irish Hunger Memorial 2010-08-04T21:15:00Z Manohla Dargis called the film “a sly rethink of the freakily morbid fairy tale” in The Times in March, adding that it “is at once direct, complex and peculiar.” DVDs: Thrills From British Vaults 2010-06-20T02:00:00Z It revolves around “Princes and Princesses,” a film of six out-of-the-ordinary fairy tales from the French animator Michel Ocelot, whose courtly figures appear as delicately etched silhouettes. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z In hearing him say as much, it's as though he is describing a fairy tale rather than an authentic account of an in fact very real relationship. With the Depp-Heard trial, courtroom television's exploitative tricks reached new misogynist heights 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Sweetly, too, Chip Zien, the original Baker of “Into the Woods,” displayed the pointy green peasant cap he wore in that musical of fractured fairy tales, as he sang the Baker’s exasperated anthem, “No More.” Review | A blessed event for hard times: Sondheim sung by Broadway’s best 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z Hoping to add to the above list, this year I decided to reread the nine fairy tales of Oscar Wilde. Review | A reading list just right for Christmas 2020: A little Dickens, a little Wilde, a little Donald Duck 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z A jarring, visually arresting fairy tale about self-worth in the selfie age, it’s full of shocks that are delivered like razor blades hidden inside cotton candy. Nicolas Winding Refn Dissects His Bloody Confection 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z “We’re stuck on these movies because we know, we grew up on them and we know. They’re necessary. People need inspiration. They need to believe in a fairy tale,” Lopez said. With ‘Second Act,’ Jennifer Lopez makes her own opportunity 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Disney likes to hire directors who don’t just reorchestrate, but also can cogitate freshly about what on the surface might merely seem easily digested fairy tales rendered immaculately on celluloid. Will ‘Frozen’ succeed on Broadway with a British director and a different ending? 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Originally titled “For President Kennedy: An Epilogue,” White’s article ran in Life magazine and was an exemplar of impressively marketable mythmaking — it inaugurated the Camelot fairy tale. ‘Jackie’: Under the Widow’s Weeds, a Myth Marketer 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z What do you think about the show's fairy tale mixture of genres? 'Once Upon a Time': Sean Maguire sees his Robin Hood as 'a medieval James Bond' 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z In the next year, she hopes to adapt more fairy tales into emoji, as well as three new full-length books: “Treasure Island,” “Robin Hood” and “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.” See how 'A Christmas Carol' and other classics are being translated into emoji 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z For its new production of the musical “Into the Woods,” Theater Latté Da in Minneapolis didn’t look to fairy tales for inspiration. Behind the Poster: 'Into the Woods' 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z I still can't decide whether this fairy tale is sweetly dark or darkly sweet. 5 favorite Tim Burton movies 2012-05-10T16:16:12Z Machado is fluent in the vocabulary of fairy tales — her stories are full of foxes, foundlings, nooses and gowns — but she remixes it to her own ends. Fairy Tales About the Fears Within 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Despite the title Ms. Loren, who will turn 80 in September, told Vanity Fair in 2012, “My life is not a fairy tale, and it’s painful still to speak about it.” A Memoir From Sophia Loren 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z What’s more, it all happens during Acts I and II. Act III has no narrative at all, just the happy couple’s wedding and their fairy tale guests. How ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Tells Its Story Through Ballet 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Ibsen’s incarnation of the fairy tale, for example, also works as a social satire of a community set at odds with its individuals and that emphasizes status over human empathy. Review: ‘Gnit’ Seeks Itself in a Mist of Magic and Mischief 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z He and other scholars believe it may be the only written remnant of a children’s fairy tale from Twain, though he told his daughters stories constantly. A Rediscovered Mark Twain Fairy Tale Is Coming Soon 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z “Charles and Diana’s story literally begins with filing the divorce papers. It’s about that pain of the dissolving of a fairy tale, particularly for Diana,” Murphy said at an event for Emmy voters in April. Diana, Versace, Lewinsky: The upcoming TV schedule is full of shows about real-life scandals 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Alba Salix is a comedy built on fairy tales and bad attitudes. Fiction podcasts are on the rise and better than ever. These are the ones to listen to. 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The production is a dark fairy tale told with acting, music and animation. Spoleto Festival USA unveils lineup for new season 2012-01-01T05:03:08Z Nearly all of the stories hum with sweet nostalgia, and some even dispatch the kind of moral one would expect from a fable or a fairy tale. A Set of Brilliant Miniatures by the Author of ‘The Good Lord Bird’ 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Hamid draws enchantment from abstraction, in the style of a fairy tale, and his narrative vantage point shifts through time and space with a godlike equanimity. A Novel About Refugees That Feels Instantly Canonical 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Ayan once wrote a fairy tale in school about “two young girls who wanted to go out into the world and find themselves.” ‘Two Sisters,’ About Teenage Girls Who Left Norway to Fight With ISIS 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z “When you look at landscape in Russian fairy tales and literature, you see that nature is outside of the city and something ‘other,’ ” said Mary Margaret Jones, a senior principal at Hargreaves Associates. In Moscow’s Newest Park, All of Russia Comes Together 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z After lingering on his march through a Las Vegas hotel room strewn with drugs and hookers, he waxes poetic about his wedding the next day — “like something out of a fairy tale.” ‘American Hustle’ and ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ as Brutal Comedies 2014-01-24T21:39:56Z The retelling of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale plays up the character of the Huntsman, a secondary character in the centuries-old tale, who becomes Snow White's protector and mentor. Kristen Stewart courted for "Snow White" 2011-01-27T07:12:41Z She talked about taking her mother to see the Pacific Ocean and the sequoia trees of the Sierra Nevada as if paraphrasing a fairy tale. Julianna Barwick Left Her Ghosts in New York. Then the Healing Began. 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z A book by the school’s founder, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, “Here and Now Stories,” proposed that instead of fairy tales, children should read about the “here and now” — the real world in which they are collaborators. Exhibition Review: Public Library’s ‘ABC of It’ Looks at Children’s Books 2013-06-20T22:19:09Z The opera is a lovely fairy tale with humanistic, masonic ideas. How we made: Ivan Fischer and Tom Randle on ENO's The Magic Flute 2012-10-08T17:51:31Z The story is flecked with the gossamer wings of fairy tales that fall awkwardly in this contemporary setting. Stephen King and Owen King imagine a world where women aren’t woke 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z We are awash in fairy tales made for the grown-up set. From 'Maleficent' to 'Game of Thrones,' a magical time for adults 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z An annual presentation of the City Parks Foundation, it centers on the Three Bears of fairy tale fame, and Baby Bear’s decision to ask Santa to star in the family’s revue. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z The film is “a stylized and sentimental fairy tale about the way the world might be, grounded in a frank recognition of the way it is,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times in October. DVD: New on DVD: ‘Jean Grémillon During the Occupation’ 2012-07-29T03:13:01Z Indeed, “Picture,” also a one-act, could be paired with “Into the Little Hill,” a retelling of the Pied Piper fairy tale, for a future double bill. An Opera Partnership’s Next Step: A Fable About Happiness 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z This is a modern fairy tale and detective story, which has a good measure of darkness and adventure at its core, and avoids moral undertones. In translation: nine authors pick their favourite children's fiction 2013-06-28T17:29:01Z “Gathering the living, the dead and the undead together on a single, surreal plane,” she wrote, “the movie turns its sordid, sex-trafficking plot into a decadent, redemptive fairy tale.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Dreamland’ and Oprah Winfrey 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Do you read classic fairy tales to your kids, or is your bookshelf full of more sanitized versions? Motherlode Blog: Are Fairy Tales Really for Children? 2011-11-28T21:01:09Z It’s a fairy tale and an opera, a potboiler and a news bulletin, a howl of protest and an anthem of resistance. ‘Capernaum’ Review: A Heartbreaking and Defiant Look at a Boy’s Life in Beirut 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z It was a scene as familiar as a fairy tale. At the Inn at Little Washington, a bittersweet reunion dinner, minus one “Cinderella and Four Knights” puts a South Korean spin on the fairy tale. What’s on TV: ‘Black Orpheus’ and ‘The Walking Dead’ Marathon 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z Everybody’s a critic, especially in New York City, where this bitter man lives and where virtually the entirety of LaValle’s story — which is a fairy tale — takes place. This New York Love Story Subverts Its ‘Happily Ever After’ 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z It at once paid tribute to the fairy tale and deconstructed it. Film: Mike Myers and Cameron Diaz on ?Shrek? 2010-05-15T02:23:00Z He finds it, of course, because this is a fairy tale. The Storybook Marriage of Alice and Martin Provensen 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Disney is revisiting the classic fairy tale of Cinderella, this time as a live-action film. The New Cinderella Trailer Is Just Magical as You Might Imagine 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z His quest is dogged by townsfolk as iconic as figures from a fairy tale: his smarter, stronger brother; a bee-taming girl; and a villain who looks “like everyone and no one at all.” The National Book Award Finalists in Young People’s Literature 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z The theme of taking a woman’s voice is woven through this slender play, with its repeated mentions of “The Little Mermaid,” a fairy tale that has lately captured Walt’s imagination. ‘Burbank’ Review: When Disney’s Animators Went on Strike 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z What I decided to employ was a “once-upon-a-time” voice, similar to fairy tales and fables. 'Dendera': Yuya Sato on his fable about old women battling a bear 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z So the lyrical, atmospheric fairy tale of “Wintersong,” which creatively combines elements of both stories, drew me in immediately. 6 Great Y.A. Fantasy Novels 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z He described the exotic beginning of the opera as a “fairy tale,” which is then taken over by something more internal as we travel inside Tamara’s mind. It Was Russia’s Most Popular Opera. Then It Disappeared. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Even at his most untethered, Albert clings to a childhood memory of his father creating a fairy tale at bedtime: “Here, Albert, a story just for you.” ‘The Man Who Walked Away,’ by Maud Casey 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z MacDonald is generally regarded as the most original, the most metaphysical, and certainly the strangest of all Victorian writers of fairy tales. Review | What we all could use right now: Tales of magic, wonder and the triumph of goodness 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z SUN An original fairy tale, performed by students, 6:30 p.m. Community calendar 2011-08-17T23:00:57Z At its best “My Name Is Khan,” set mainly in America, is an affecting fairy tale about the perils of goodness. 2010-02-12T23:26:00Z “There are two important things to remember about the coming revolutions,” this fairy tale reads, on the page and onstage. A Queer Revolutionary Classic Book, Now Onstage With Music 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z But there’s also no need for anyone to keep trying to spin beloved fairy tales into second-rate franchises. Review: ‘The Huntsman,’ a Study in Hollywood’s Overstuffed Playbook 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z And her dance, “Remains,” is not a fairy tale, it’s about life. The Dance Laboratory of an Existential Fidgeter 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z "Into the Woods" fans got their wish Thursday with the release of a new trailer for Disney's upcoming adaptation of the Tony-winning musical inspired by the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Meryl Streep, Anna Kendrick head 'Into the Woods' in new trailer 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Prince Bumpo, the heir to the throne, is a mooncalf who mistakes fairy tales for real life, speaks in Elizabethan periphrasis and murmurs to himself: “If only I were a white prince!” Doctor Dolittle’s Talking Animals Still Have Much to Say 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Though neither Katie nor “Midnight Sun” seems disturbed by the paternalism of her circumstances, most fairy tales revolve around a prince, not a parent, and, accordingly, both Katie and the film idealize romance. Review: In ‘Midnight Sun,’ the Dawn of Romance Can Be Fatal 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Is she, in this meta-version of the fairy tale, the hunter as well as the innocent? The Best Part of “The Deuce” Is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Emerging Auteur 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z If I had been Jack in the fairy tale, I think I would have unloaded the cow for a few beans myself. The humble bean: Good for soups, great for the apocalypse 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z But herein is the strange wonder of Bhutan: Being there, even with a guide whose job it is to show you an idealized version of the place, is like being immersed in a fairy tale. Into the Land of Happiness 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z In October it was discovered by a retired historian, who now believes it is one of the first fairy tales ever written by Hans Christian Andersen. ArtsBeat: Like a Fairy Tale: Hans Christian Andersen Story Is Found in a Box 2012-12-13T19:25:58Z He’s a masterly writer, with a wild sense of humor that he pushes as far as he can, but this fairy tale about our wealth-obsessed culture starts to drag. A Bag of Cash Falls From the Sky. Trouble Is Close Behind. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z "Grimm" is a crime drama with supernatural overtones inspired by the classic Grimm Brothers fairy tales. NBC uses Twitter to help launch new drama 'Grimm' 2011-10-14T19:17:08Z In the realm of storytelling, fairy tales are more baking than cooking. Once, Twice, Thrice Upon a Time 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z “Into the Woods,” Mr. Sondheim and Mr. Lapine’s 1986 revisionist mash-up of classic fairy tales, has been stripped down to a production that uses a single piano and a multifarious cast of 10. Hugh Jackman in ‘The River,’ One of Several Compact Shows 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z And the director Mary Zimmerman’s inventive production conveys the right mix of whimsical fairy tale and disturbing morality play through a simple, colorful staging, with sets by Daniel Ostling and costumes by Ana Kuzmanic. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z I’d felt like two men most of my adult life, but never had that other part of me been given a name and thus, as according to the magic of fairy tales, been made real. I told my biological dad goodbye — and it made all the difference 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z A number of your recent stories draw on fairy tales. Ludmilla Petrushevskaya on Family Secrets 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Still running — deadline Monday night, April 26: Our contest for novel takes on fairy tales, nursery rhymes, etc. Style Invitational Week 1433: Questionable Journalism 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z What I loved about it was that I just felt less alone in this idea that not everything is a perfect fairy tale all the time. Katherine Heigl unfiltered: "I know my value. Beauty ... is the least interesting thing about me" 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z The landscape could be a setting for a Grimms’ fairy tale, with a pygmy pine forest, carnivorous plants and a profusion of fungi. Just in time for summer: 49 new National Scenic Byways and All-American Roads 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z There’s a reason evil outsiders are standard in fairy tales. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Brother’s wife skipped the family matriarch’s funeral. Time to call her out? 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z This book is about the old sunny Soviet fairy tale, the notion that a planned economy would become, in Mr. Spufford’s memorable phrase, “its own self-victualling tablecloth.” Books of The Times: ?Red Plenty,? by Francis Spufford, About Soviet Russia 2012-02-14T23:18:36Z Many authors have reworked fairy tales, but Carter was one of the first to attempt such bold takes, and remains one of the best. Review | Let’s talk about ‘Starship Troopers’ and other science fiction and fantasy novels that wowed us on screen 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z This network’s Sunday night lineup returns for a new season, starting with the fairy tale adventure “Once Upon a Time.” What’s on TV Sunday: ABC Dramas and Overseas Opera 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Sleeping Beauty Storybook Theatre presents a family-friendly musical based on the classic fairy tale. L.A. theater openings, Nov. 20-27: 'Mamma Mia' and more 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Dvorak’s “Rusalka,” about a water nymph doomed by her love for a human prince, is a fairy tale. A ‘Rusalka’ Shows Two Sides at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-01-24T10:13:05Z According to this billboard in Kansas City, “Evolution is a fairy tale for grownups.” 10 most absurd right-wing Christian billboards 2014-05-06T11:00:00Z I knew by then that heroines and ingénues were “fair,” as fairy tale convention dictated. Arts & Leisure: ?All-American Muslim? on TLC: Life in Dearborn, Michigan 2011-11-10T18:31:22Z Aiken also produced dozens of cozily eerie short stories, often playing with elements of folk tale and fairy tale. Michael Dirda selects three magical books 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Retreating into his imagination, he began writing fairy tales, which formed the basis of “The Land of Stories.” The Many Hats of Chris Colfer 2012-12-21T21:10:46Z Since then, Hollywood fairy tales have mainly tacked between wide-eyed romanticism and winking self-consciousness. Movie Review: ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ With Kristen Stewart 2012-05-31T17:47:53Z The "Lost in Translation" filmmaker has exited Universal Pictures' and Working Title Films' live-action adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale over creative differences, The Times has confirmed. Sofia Coppola departs as director of 'The Little Mermaid' 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Sometimes the natural world complies, as if in a fairy tale: as roses disappear, a blanket of multicolored petals appears in the river. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Like all fairy tales, “The Originalist” is better at revealing psychological desires than representing reality. Drama about Antonin Scalia plays out like 'Beauty and the Beast' 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z At the same time, Kubasta illustrated dozens of fairy tales, most of them by the Brothers Grimm. ‘Pop-Ups From Prague’ Celebrates Vojtech Kubasta 2014-01-30T13:00:01Z But she concocted the fairy tale to transcend reality. ‘Art From the Holocaust’: The Beauty and Brutality in Forbidden Works 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Many of the films were Depression fairy tales in which Ms. Durbin won over or defeated silly rich people with the help of butlers, cooks and chauffeurs, who often risked their jobs to aid her. Deanna Durbin, 1930s Star of Universal Pictures, Dies at 91 2013-05-01T03:57:41Z But Louboutin is the one who made them so popular, and took them beyond the stuff of little girls' fairy tales. Heart and sole: Christian Louboutin's shoes inspire a certain passion 2011-11-21T16:43:25Z When a bride and groom emerge, we see them enter their version of a fairy tale wedding - presided over by the host of Big Brother. Reality TV, celebrity obsession hit Cannes screens 2012-05-18T11:27:19Z She added: “She don’t need no fairy tale.” Jennifer Lopez on Her Power Bossness, ‘Second Act’ and A-Rod 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Worse, the contrived narrative that the shows collectively push — the idea that Harry and Meghan’s romance is “a fairy tale” — is jarringly backward. Royal Rumble: 7 Meghan and Harry Specials Face Off, and We All Lose 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Whoever comes up with the best fairy tale wins. 5 Questions With Natalie Portman 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z A slow accumulation of increasingly fanciful detail deposits us, almost without our noticing, on the threshold of a fairy tale: The Practical Magic of Joan Aiken, the Greatest Children’s Writer You’ve Likely Never Read 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z It was 15 years ago with “Enchanted” that the part of Giselle, a fairy tale maiden from Andalasia flung into Manhattan to charm the rats, cockroaches and bachelors, launched Amy Adams into Hollywood stardom. ‘Disenchanted’ Review: Middlingly Ever After 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z For everyone else, what is clear is that this is no longer a fashion fairy tale, but a cautionary one. Calvin Klein’s Nightmare Before Christmas 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Instead, she read it as “a deep, dark, romantic adult fairy tale,” she said. ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ the Movie, as a Fairy Tale 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Guy’s oil painting of children reading fairy tales in bed evoked the very hue of childhood. How Greta Gerwig Built Her ‘Little Women’ 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z A fairy tale mood exudes from the panel, only 18.1 centimeters or 7.1 inches across, which originally formed part of a set of 12 illustrating the months of the year. Art Review: Dutch Masterpieces, Assembled by Art Lovers 2011-04-22T11:00:04Z At one point, a character laments that fairy tales lost their spooky appeal once people began assigning morals to them. In ‘The Changeling,’ the Dark Fears of Parents, Memorably Etched 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z “It’s a fairy tale that makes fun of the genre, but is also completely true to the form.” Looking for Buddhist Wisdom in ‘The Princess Bride’ 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z In the end, I found the characters a bit too frail to sustain a plot that wobbles from fairy tale to gritty, rubble-strewn realism. ‘All the Light We Cannot See’: a gem of a World War II novel 2014-04-30T19:35:30Z Once a week, the trails are groomed to perfection, and the lodges’ caretakers will shuttle your belongings forward, leaving you free to cross-country ski or snowshoe through the fairy tale woods unencumbered. A Cool Glide Through Maine 2012-02-17T20:45:41Z Director Neil Jordan distills all the Freudian, fairy tale imagery and horror contained in Carter’s work into one surreal version of Little Red Riding Hood with werewolves. Review | Let’s talk about ‘Starship Troopers’ and other science fiction and fantasy novels that wowed us on screen 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Scribe sighting/What we learned: ; author of The Grimm Conclusion /Books based on “the real dark bloody Grimm fairy tales.” Galley Girl at Book Expo 2013: The Last Two Nights 2013-06-01T19:00:08Z She refers to Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Eat, Pray, Love” as “the Eileen Fisher phase of the fairy tale . . . tasteful, flowing, and calming.” Review | ‘You Play the Girl,’ by Carina Chocano, up for big book award this week 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z He had loved reading for much of his life, from Mark Twain to comics to Norwegian fairy tales, but only as an adult did he find books that had people like himself in them. Walter Dean Myers, 73, a hero to young readers 2011-03-04T14:51:12Z Because of their massive size, these were inevitably likened to the biblical Behemoth or to the dragons of fairy tale and myth. Perspective | The Loch Ness monster may not exist, but such mythical beasts fascinate for good reason 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z It looks like a page from a fairy tale. The Best Secret Streets Around the World 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z And finally, the last pre-SIFF midnight movie at the Egyptian will be "The Princess Bride," everybody's favorite fairy tale featuring romance, swashbuckling and Rodents Of Unusual Size. Take a 'Journey' with 6 filmmakers 2011-05-12T19:26:04Z Despite this, the narrative linchpin isn’t Aurora: It’s Maleficent, who doesn’t fit the fairy tale template largely because of her relationships. Angelina Jolie Stars in ‘Maleficent,’ From Disney 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z For her part, Ms. Breillat narrates the fairy tale three ways: in the period story, through the little girls and, finally, through the overall film. Movie Review | 'Bluebeard': Catherine Breillat?s Screen Revision of Perrault?s Fairy Tale 2010-03-25T23:18:00Z “And the fact that we no longer have that, that’s the thing that saddens me the most because in a few generations the Huxtables will have been just a fairy tale.” Malcolm-Jamal Warner Says 'Cosby Show' Legacy Has Been Tarnished 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Now in her debut novel, “Skin of the Sea,” she blends elements of Andersen’s original story with West African history and Yoruban mythology to create a new fairy tale. 4 New Y.A. Fantasy Novels Full of Dark, Enchanting Twists 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z One of Shakespeare’s late plays, it borrows from comedy, tragedy, history, fairy tale, Christian allegory and a few other genres besides. Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater: A Midsummer Night’s Couple 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z And given their tremendous popularity, fairy tales are becoming the escapist antidote of choice to help weather stressful times. From 'Maleficent' to 'Game of Thrones,' a magical time for adults 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z A Witch, a Wish and Fairy Tale Agony The fairy tale forest of “Into the Woods” has suddenly grown a lot thicker. Theater Review: ‘Into the Woods,’ by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine 2012-08-10T04:58:42Z The news — “like a magical substance in a fairy tale — was producing perpetually increasing awfulness from rock-bottom bad.” Deborah Eisenberg Returns With Tart and Spiky Stories in ‘Your Duck Is My Duck’ 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z The relationship was being preserved in its fairy tale form for posterity from the very beginning. ‘Harry & Meghan’ Has All the Intimacy of Instagram 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Following a string of weekends dominated by rampaging monsters, mutant superheroes and a Disney fairy tale villain, love-struck teens are likely to supply one of the summer's breakout hits. 'Fault in Our Stars' likely to break Tom Cruise's heart at box office 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z You are a true princess from a dreamy fairy tale; a modern Cinderella. Taylor Swift and Owl City singer trade love songs 2011-02-16T12:52:00Z The best fairy tales hold kernels of truth, however, which is why I found myself missing my mother and wondering what she would have made of Corrin and Morgan's Diana. "The Crown" presents Princess Diana of Wales, patron saint of tradition-defying divorcées 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z The director Kathy Curtiss will present Shakespeare’s fairyland fairy tale, now relocated to a shifting Lower East Side. Theater Listings for July 1-7 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Turning fairy tales and other time-honored stories into television is something of a thing right now, what with “Grimm” and “Once Upon a Time” and ABC’s forthcoming “Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.” Television Review: In ‘Sleepy Hollow,’ Crane and His Nemesis Land in the 21st Century 2013-09-15T21:55:39Z A cartoonish fractured fairy tale wouldn’t seem to be the best fit for Shaw. Avast! Sunny pirates, a frosty ‘Frozen’ and a forecast from Shaw 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Maybe Disney doesn't believe in Black fairy tales? "The Little Mermaid" and Disney's dilemma: Why no Black prince? 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Michael Cunningham’s new collection of fairy tales, “A Wild Swan”, will not launch readers into a relaxed, contented sleep. Duty and the beast 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z “We all grew up, at least I did in my generation, reading and understanding what a fairy tale is,” Larraín said to Deadline. Kristen Stewart to play Princess Diana in new film Spencer 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z The result is decidedly not a fairy tale for young children. Review: Toto, You’re Not a Basket-Size Terrier Anymore 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z The specific movie that set the editor off was “Snow White and the Huntsman,” a retelling of the Grimm fairy tale starring Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron as the disinherited princess and her vengeful stepmother. The Carpetbagger: Box Office Heroines 2012-12-07T15:00:34Z But Offred and Luke’s marriage seems like a fairy tale in a series that is typically more honest about the ways people relate to each other. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Episode 7: Crossing the Border 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Stirring his pot of nightmares, legends, fairy tales and human folly into stories, the British-born fantasy writer Neil Gaiman has produced more than 20 books for children and adults, most of them scary and strange. Neil Gaiman Follows the Guiding Light of Instinct 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z She fell silent, then added, “And do you think that it could also be that I am truly sorry to have broken everybody’s illusion about the fairy tale?” Saving Sarah From Herself, Oprah Style 2011-06-03T19:53:35Z “This divorce is useful in interrupting reality TV’s extremely shallow emphasis on the ‘perfect fairy tale wedding’ narrative you hear over and over,” she said. Kardashian Marriage May End, but the Wedding Goes On 2011-11-01T22:15:15Z It’s an inspired choice, for surely this coming-of-age story is a fairy tale for our times. Kate DiCamillo’s ‘Raymie Nightingale’ is a fairy tale for our times 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The story of Weetzie Bat is nothing short of a punk rock fairy tale. Francesca Lia Block says Weetzie Bat is not a manic pixie dream girl: “I don’t love what I’ve seen of that” 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z In starting with fairy tales, Lapine and Sondheim were already dealing with layered stories. The trip 'Into the Woods' is spooky, thoughtful, delightful 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z The majestic hotel bars that Contessi referenced, the epitome of antique grandeur, are the stuff of fairy tales. In Venice, sampling a cocktail revolution 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z There's a "myth" about fairy tales that makes it seem as if they were naturally generated and universal, designated primarily for children. Now it can be (re)told 2011-08-20T14:01:00Z Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel, “The Buried Giant,” is an eccentric, ham-handed fairy tale with a jumble of story lines lifted from “Beowulf,” Arthurian legend and assorted folk traditions. Review: In ‘The Buried Giant,’ Ishiguro Revisits Memory and Denial 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z But to think about it, it may not be a farfetched idea to slip a character from an Andersen fairy tale into a Lawrence story, or vice versa. This Week in Fiction: Yiyun Li on Fairy Tales 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Victor tells Simon that he heard about this fairy tale romance at school, where Simon is apparently a legend. "Love, Victor" is Hulu's likable spinoff of "Love, Simon" that questions who gets a great love story 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z The first pages, however, comfort us with the familiarity of a fairy tale. A Dark, Dark Take on Our Most Precious Fairy Tales 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Disney's animated fairy tale "Brave" grabbed $10.7 million in domestic theaters for fourth place. "Ice Age" puts chill on "Spider-Man" at box offices 2012-07-15T16:08:47Z She says that the classic Disney fairy tale model was taken for granted for generations, so many women just automatically strove for it. Jennifer Lee, Queen of the ‘Frozen’ Franchise 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z All roads are winding, rolling two-lane forays through the pages of a fairy tale. In France’s Dordogne region, a land of castles and caves calls for deep exploration 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z One of the grimmer fairy tales takes on heightened resonance in “Hansel & Gretel Bluegrass,” a haunting new play commissioned by 24th Street Theatre that directly links the horrors of child abandonment with dire poverty. With an assist from Bradley Whitford, 'Hansel & Gretel Bluegrass' gives an old tale new relevance 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z While the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater is doing its production in Manhattan, Puppetworks in Brooklyn has been offering this version of the fairy tale, adapted by Nicolas Coppola, the company’s artistic director. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 21-27 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z The Windsors have long ceased to be a fairy tale unless you mean the kind where the dragon devours all the princes and princesses and refuses to cough them back up. Review | Before Harry and Meghan, the Windsor sisters stirred the pot. A new book delves into their story. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Clio Barnard’s tragic drama “The Selfish Giant” bears little resemblance to the gentle Oscar Wilde fairy tale from which it takes its name — except, perhaps, in its depiction of a world inhospitable to children. ‘The Selfish Giant’: A world where children grow up too fast 2014-01-16T21:52:51Z “The Harvest” is neither as bloodcurdling as “Henry” nor as trashily entertaining as “Wild Things,” playing more like a macabre fairy tale with a child’s-eye view of adult behavior. Review: In ‘The Harvest,’ Love Is Wielded With a Chill 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Maybe so, but the characteristic tone of fairy tales and folk tales, which is derived from oral storytelling traditions, is awfully difficult to replicate on screen. Arts & Leisure: ?Mirror Mirror,? ?Grimm? and Hollywood Love for Fairy Tales 2012-03-21T12:00:11Z Even so, the roots of the salon fairy tale in the old wives' tale are fairly easy to trace. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z She began telling her own stories, along with fairy tales and folk tales, at schools and libraries. Beverly Cleary, Beloved Children’s Book Author, Dies at 104 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Hunt’s slim, dark novel reads like a fairy tale more twisted than Grimm. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z These seem like two social-science theories about poverty—two hypotheses, which might be tested empirically—but, in practice, they are more like political fairy tales. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z There are no fairy tales that brought Pugh to this moment, but here is a story of good luck and determination. Florence Pugh’s True Hollywood Fairy Tale 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z My fairy tales describe fantastic events; they are entirely fictional. Ludmilla Petrushevskaya on Family Secrets 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z "Sleeping Beauty and Her Winter Knight": Lucy Lawless and Disney recording artist Olivia Holt star in this re-imagining of the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale told in the style of a traditional English panto. Holiday theater: 11 SoCal shows to celebrate the season 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z It also did one great move, which is, the traditional villain of a fairy tale is now going to be the hero. Film: Mike Myers and Cameron Diaz on ?Shrek? 2010-05-15T02:23:00Z The same could be said for Ms. Sergeenko’s collections, which blend elements of Russian military, babushkas, fairy tales and Soviet cartoons. The Russians Claim the Fashion Spotlight 2012-06-29T20:17:42Z Lawrence credits Kennedy with publishing 97 books, including many on dance — memoirs by Martha Graham and Gelsey Kirkland, and a collection of Pushkin fairy tales prefaced by Rudolf Nureyev. T Magazine: The First Lady of First Editions 2010-12-04T03:38:00Z Vernon decided to retell fairy tales with a strong female hero. Ursula Vernon elevates a rodent to royalty 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Which is exactly what I tell my own children: princes and princesses belong in fairy tales, not in real life. Motherlode Blog: Princes Are for Fairy Tales 2013-07-22T22:04:23Z The irony is that he then took those sustaining fairy tales and used them to conquer the world. At Milan Men’s Week, the War Lives On 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z That’s to say that whenever a child opens a book of fairy tales, the denizens of this magical kingdom must act out the classic plots for the reader. In Washington, a Princess Party and a Carnival of Self-Loathing 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z But in life, as in fairy tales, there may be wolves in the woods. Imprint: Echoes of the Savage and Sublime on Mount Tamalpais 2013-08-14T19:06:13Z Besides the Trump clan, this slice of Europe is the birthplace of Freud, Grimm’s fairy tales, the Nazi movement, schnitzel, pilsner beer and some of Europe’s great writers and musicians including Kafka, Dvorak and Mozart. Stalking the Trump Family’s Roots 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z “There are fragments of reality, myth, fairy tale, cliché and stereotype.” Marcus Gardley’s ‘The Box: A Black Comedy’ Comes to Brooklyn 2014-04-13T21:56:13Z Thus “How the End Begins” contains references to, and detours through, everything and everyone from Dante to Terry Southern, Grimm’s fairy tales to Philip Roth, and Faust to Cormac McCarthy. Books of The Times: Thinking the Unthinkable Again in a New Nuclear Age 2011-03-01T16:45:09Z Carolina Herrera, in her 35th year in business, is living the fairy tale. Diary of a Cruise Season 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z “Bluebeard’s Castle” — Bartok’s only opera, composed over several years and first performed in 1918 — is based on a Charles Perrault fairy tale. Review: The Philharmonic Shines Through Two Dark Operas 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z An early verse, sung by a chipper young woman in a yellow dress, is a kind of overture, hinting at the theme of the bittersweet fairy tale to follow. Review: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone Aswirl in ‘La La Land’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z That means that, at some point, it parts ways with reality and turns into a sugarcoated fairy tale. In ‘The Vacationers,’ Emma Straub Looks at Infidelity 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z At the center of this quirky, heartfelt story are three girls embroiled in a “fairy tale that hadn’t been told yet.” Kate DiCamillo’s ‘Raymie Nightingale’ is a fairy tale for our times 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Packed with a dozen stories that run from fables and fairy tales to near-future dystopias, her book focuses on family, either in African communities abroad or among members of the diaspora in the United States. Lesley Nneka Arimah’s debut story collection is vibrant and fresh 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z “People dreamed of living on the moon and sun. They dreamed of castles built on clouds,” Mengestu writes, evoking an idealized city as if in a fairy tale — and how their hopes were dashed. ‘All Our Names’: two narrators, one catalytic character 2014-03-19T18:41:07Z Instead of a complete reenactment of the big wedding, we see just enough to understand that what the world saw on live TV was an elaborate mockery of the fairy tale it pretended to be. Review | The Charles and Diana saga weighs heavy on ‘The Crown,’ but Gillian Anderson’s Thatcher is a triumph 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z The Internet nightmare was becoming something like a dark fairy tale. Cultural Studies: Social Networking Takes a Strange Turn 2012-07-13T20:29:00Z Lurie’s surreal humor makes “The Asylum Tapes,” as he put it, like “fairy tales for adults.” Cult favorite John Lurie is back, with an old alter ego 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z It’s a backhanded proposal with an understated, ambivalent buildup musing on independence, uncertainty and “fairy tales of fake happiness.” Christina Aguilera Exults in Her Voice on ‘Liberation’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z “I would really like to do more work — proper work, not just slagging around trying to get jobs in family-viewing fairy tales in Hollywood.” T Magazine: Rupert Everett Is So Not An American Movie Star 2013-05-10T13:00:54Z As a pretty little girl, fairy tales offered Leduc a comfortable throne in which to nurse her fantasies, but when she was 3, a CT scan revealed an abnormality in her brain. Review | In ‘Disfigured,’ a writer explores the damaging ways fairy tales shape our view of the world — and ourselves 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Amanda is passive, and believes in the fairy tale; Mrs. Nixon was active, and believed in working hard to create her own scenario. Books of The Times: ?Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life,? by Ann Beattie - Review 2011-12-12T22:55:42Z One conceit of the five-issue story, which wraps up in August, is that each chapter includes scenes of a fairy tale by Alice, about a firefly who is seeking a mate. 8 Comic Books in Honor of Pride 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z “When I realised that people were believing Goop’s fairy tales, I thought: ‘I’ll take them on.’” Jennifer Gunter: ‘Women are being told lies about their bodies’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z “When we first entered the gardens, they reminded one of those magic grounds described in fairy tales,” recalled Col. How Asian art came to America: ‘The China Collectors’ 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z The network, which reported $1.1 billion in revenue last year, traffics in residential fairy tales. Can HGTV make house-renovators Ben and Erin the new Chip and Joanna? 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Here she turns “Story of O” into a fairy tale of its own, replete with oddities and violence and transformation. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The attempt to transplant a fairy tale princess and her magical past into the sharp-angled context of the actual world causes “Sleeping Beauty Wakes” to suffer from a mild case of personality disorder. | 'Sleeping Beauty Wakes': A Fairy Tale, Updated Without Ambien 2011-05-23T21:11:06Z The nearby Neuschwanstein, famous from tourist posters promoting Bavaria, is the multitowered Romanesque Revival castle in the mountains that was a model for the fairy tale castle at Disneyland. Critic’s Notebook: Exploring Bavaria and the Busoni International Piano Festival 2012-09-07T23:47:51Z Le Figaro wrote that she was a fairy tale that could be believed in, for she had been “irresistible absolute perfection.” She Was an Organist for the Ages 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Florence Pugh grew up around hustlers; she doesn’t believe in fairy tales. Florence Pugh’s True Hollywood Fairy Tale 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Hillard, an assistant professor of English at Seattle University, examines the relationship between fairy tales and Victorian culture. New Emma Lord mystery, fairy tales and a book of poetry 2014-03-24T19:27:29Z But life in the castle wasn’t all fairy tales for Twain. Shania Twain goes big and bigger at Verizon Center 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z OK, it’s a fairy tale, but that’s not meant to imply immaturity. In Boston Court's 'With Love and a Major Organ,' she gave him her heart, quite literally 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z I was a youngish man entering fatherhood when we wrote "Woods," a patchwork of classic fairy tales with an original tale sewn in. Back 'Into the Woods' for librettist James Lapine, with new feeling 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Two Broadway songwriters deliver the first original audiobook musical, based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “Rumpelstiltskin.” New & Noteworthy 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z The story slips into a kind of sophisticated fairy tale when one of the men, Jim, decides to buy flowers for his wife. ‘The Emerald Light in the Air,’ Stories by Donald Antrim 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z “The Tempest” is a fairy tale about isolation, disorder, and legerdemain giving way to a just and righted world. Gender-Bending Shakespeare and Rough Magic in “The Tempest” 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z I, for one, am done with fairy tales as history — and patient explanations. Review: Martha Washington, Hilariously Haunted by Her Slaves 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z The screenplay by Lee Hall, who wrote “Billy Elliot,” turns Mr. Slater’s story into a bittersweet comic fairy tale with an inspirational undertow. | 'Toast': ?Toast,? About the Food Writer Nigel Slater - Review 2011-09-22T21:32:22Z They’re also particularly strong on fairy tales, geography, folklore and mythology — much of it highly appealing to my third-grade Percy Jackson fan. A Mother-Daughter Test: London, Together 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z The science is more fairy tale than futurist, "very hand-wavy and vague," Gibson says. William Gibson coaxes the future out of the present 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z In the fairy tale version of our country’s racial politics, we all learn about justice and skip happily toward the future. Review: Martha Washington, Hilariously Haunted by Her Slaves 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z And if that sounds like the beginning of a Brothers Grimm fairy tale, it isn’t. Sculpture as personal as it gets 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z He drops to one knee, she pretends she is shocked, and Rachel gets her fairy tale ending. The Bachelorette Recap: Who Did Rachel Choose? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Of course it has, because technologies and the way fairy tales are disseminated and packaged have. Now it can be (re)told 2011-08-20T14:01:00Z Everyone knows that the Grimms’ fairy tales are much darker than the cleaned-up Disney versions, but with Schönwerth’s, the action gets even more down-to-earth. Down and dirty fairy tales: How this rediscovered stash of darker-than-Grimm stories destroys our Prince Charming myths 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z In the past, he has applied this formula to fairy tales such as “The Nutcracker,” “Cinderella” and “Alice in Wonderland.” 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z It’s an accessible fairy tale with a glimmer of environmentalism. Paul McCartney?s ?Ocean Kingdom? at City Ballet 2011-09-11T04:00:07Z The pieces will be inspired by fairy tales, iconic films and the designer’s travels around the world. Special Report: Jewelry: Jewelry That Sparkles With Stories and Gems 2011-05-12T13:49:21Z "It plays with our idea of fairy tales — you better watch what you ask for, and you never get what you want. We're always wanting something that's bigger and better, and this show highlights that." 'Into the Woods' has a bewitching popularity — and presents issues 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z What these fairy tale snippets have to do with environmental change is unexplained. Review: ‘Memory Rings.’ Forget About It. 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z And it does so by suggesting, among other things, that budding girls and older women are not natural foes, even if that’s what fairy tales, Hollywood and the world like to tell us. Angelina Jolie Stars in ‘Maleficent,’ From Disney 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z They are all clustered together on the narrow lot, like the stage set of a fairy tale that takes place in a junkyard. ?The Music Box? in New Orleans is a Sonic Shantytown 2011-11-21T22:54:24Z Despite its problems, the show is still watchable, in part because Dahl spun his modern fairy tale so nimbly. Not Exactly Golden Tickets: “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Anastasia” on Broadway 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Walt’s not satisfied making all those “fairy tales and fairy things” and has decided to expand into the “real world,” first by making nature documentaries. Theater Review: ‘Public Reading About Death of Walt Disney,’ at Soho Rep 2013-05-10T17:23:50Z The relentless TV ad campaign promised a bigger and badder fairy tale — a fantasy epic, with action to spare. Spoiler Alert: Snow White, Warrior Princess, and Her Forgettable Dwarfs 2012-06-04T10:45:38Z “It’s like a fairy tale,” said Christian Strzecha, 26, of coming with the label to fashion week. Fashion Gets Down and Dirty 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z A fairy tale this may be, but it’s decidedly for adults, never more than during a crowded scene that makes disturbing use of a dessert tart and a candle. Review: Novels by Alexandra Kleeman, Edward St. Aubyn and More 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z As a child, Mr. Chou was exposed to many different styles of Chinese music, even as he was reading translations of European fairy tales his father took home from his travels. Edgard Varèse’s Protégé Chou Wen-chung, Going Strong at 91 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z So far, so fairy tale, but the story drifts back into the quotidian details of village life. Review | Perumal Murugan said his career as a novelist was dead. Lucky for us, he was wrong. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z As if in a fairy tale, Noah and Juliette popped up in Paris, in bed together, memories of Brooklyn, Montauk and knives in the neck seemingly banished. ‘The Affair’ Season 3 Finale: A Day in Paris 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z While producing new cut-paper works last month for her Berlin show, Yang realized that she was making “figurative motifs, faces, hand, sea animals,” the stuff of “very old-fashioned fairy tale books.” Haegue Yang’s Radical Art of Obscure Delights 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The “School for Good and Evil” author remixes 12 fairy tales in this middle grade volume — mirrors of ones once told to him, “reflected back with rage, mercy, love and joy.” Newly Published, From Famous Manuscripts to a Bookstore in Egypt 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z “The Americans love the British royal family and when you have an American actress marrying a British royal prince, it is the stuff of fairy tales,” biographer Joseph said. When Harry weds Meghan: A week until Britain's royal wedding 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z That sounds like the plight of some Brothers Grimm heroine, but this is no fairy tale. Review | What does passion sound like? How five audiobook actors talk sexy. 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z It is a strange and beautiful little book, which retains the poetry and cruelty of its source, while subtly excavating our abiding attraction to ruthless fairy tales. Review: ‘The Robber Bridegroom’ Is Heavy on the Twang 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z "I wanted to keep in mind it's very accessible to the public as a romantic fairy tale, not avant-garde," said Castro. Emmy-nominated designers celebrate TV costumes 2012-07-31T22:46:04Z The movie was fashioned as a modern-day fairy tale of a young woman, Anastasia Steele, who falls for a man she thinks is her Prince Charming, only to discover his dark side. 'Grey' area: For a provocative film, many shades of marketing 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z This "Snow White" is one of those revisionist fairy tales in which the princess takes control of her own destiny. Charlize Theron's evil Queen steals the spotlight in 'Snow White' 2012-05-31T00:45:04Z Set largely in and around a house nestled in the woods, Sciamma’s Lilliputian tour de force is a wittily modern fairy tale and model of elegant narrative economy. Best Movies of 2022 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z In this thriller and escapist fairy tale co-written by Clinton and Patterson, the fictitious President Jonathan Lincoln Duncan is in trouble for supposedly having had dealings with terrorists. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Bailey is the newest iteration of the fairy tale mermaid, replacing the redheaded cartoon from the 1989 Disney movie. In the new ‘Little Mermaid,’ Black girls and moms see themselves 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z The opera was inspired by a Persian fairy tale, set in China, about a cruel princess and the prince who tries to win her heart. 'Turandot' lures opera newbies and Puccini fans 2012-07-25T21:50:04Z Her mother wants her to grow up in a fairy tale, the kind where toy unicorns belong. A Literary Detective Returns to Find Trouble in the Country Club Set 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Here was Ron Howard directing a friendly hybrid of fairy tale and Tolkien-inspired quest about the someday empress Elora Danan, a magical infant protected by an aspiring sorcerer played by Warwick Davis. The "Willow" legend continues, only now the quest is open to all who would take it, including girls 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z First up is the fairy tale mashup at 8 p.m., then the nighttime soap at 10 p.m., on Sunday, May 11, both on ABC. The Week Ahead: Beer tasting, Viking Fest, Rick Atkinson 2014-05-07T22:17:13Z "Into the Woods" also fits neatly into Disney's overall "reimagining" of the fairy tales that made the studio famous. Record-breaking 'Into the Woods' is a surprise hit 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's work is one of the great achievements of American musical theater: a mash-up of classic fairy tales that's funny, tuneful and refreshingly honest about the impossibility of "happily ever after." 'In the Woods' leaps from musical theater to movie theaters 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z In a festive British pub, a groom recounts meeting his husband, while admitting that his fairy tale wasn’t like the ones he had heard during his childhood. Your Week in Culture: Clive Owen, St. Vincent, ‘Marshall’ Before the Supreme Court 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z On one hand, what happens to the Kim family — who are so poor they literally live underground, in a rancid-smelling, insect-infested apartment just below street level — has the quality of a fairy tale. "Parasite": A prickly, disturbing class-war thriller — and a signature film of 2019 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z And third, she said she wanted to put a modern twist on a fairy tale because she liked the way those stories deal with dark and light themes. The Creator of ‘Bao’ on That Twist: ‘Part of Me Wanted to Shock Audiences’ 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z As a kid, Ursu liked reading, especially fairy tales, and playing Star Wars and putting on puppet shows with her older brother. ‘Troubled girls’ are the true heroines of Anne Ursu’s new novel 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Not because of magic, because of these are true emotions, real things, these are real people not just a fairy tale. How the Drew Barrymore Movie 'Ever After' Became a New Musical 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z The Most Incredible Thing” takes its story from an 1870 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Justin Peck Calmly Creates a Kingdom at City Ballet 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z I whirled through boyfriends, hoping, I suppose, to find the fairy tale royal who would rescue me from my isolated tower. Let us all praise loneliness 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z “I was worried about directing in a language that wasn't my own. But fairy tales are a universal language.” Cannes 2015: In 'Tale of Tales,' reimagining Disney via Del Toro 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Besides this fairy tale, in which the Wolf stalks Little Red through Manhattan, Cannon will present his own “Harlem River Drive,” a one-man homage, on Sunday. A Puppet Festival Returns to New York, All Grown Up 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Twenty years later, “Shrek” is still a beloved, offbeat fairy tale whose characters and jokes continue to permeate pop culture, reaching another generation of fans. ‘Shrek’ at 20: How a Chaotic Project Became a Beloved Hit 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z "Into the Woods" may owe some of its success to the girlish fervor generated by Disney's other two twisted fairy tales — "Frozen" and last summer's "Maleficent." Record-breaking 'Into the Woods' is a surprise hit 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z “The darker side of the fairy tale is an essential aspect of the fairy tale,” Mr. Neumeier said in an e-mail message. Arts: Taking a ?Little Mermaid? to Dark New Depths 2010-03-20T00:33:00Z “You sort of romanticize it, and certain images and fairy tales stick with you and influence how you see beauty.” Skin Deep: Fashion Week Experts Offer Tips on How to Apply Runway Makeup 2014-02-12T23:49:48Z The challenge: Make the irreverent superheroes feel of a piece with castles, fairy tales, singing ghosts and talking cars. ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ to debut at Disneyland, with much more Marvel to come 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z But "Andor" makes a strong case for abandoning the preciousness we carry for these deep space fairy tales, which Gilroy told The Hollywood Reporter that he instructed his writers, directors, and cast to do. "Andor" disrupts the Star Wars fairy tale 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z I always thought that stuff was Hollywood and fairy tales and though I wanted to feel it, I didn’t really imagine it would happen. Letting go of the dream lover 2012-12-10T01:00:00Z This year’s selection features a magic portal that appears in Hoboken and a fairy tale king who identifies his long-lost daughter through a DNA test. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Here's an example: In fact, fairy tales are the focus of Singer's collection, which includes poems about Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel and Cinderella. Corner: An April shower of great new poetry books for children 2010-04-21T21:12:00Z Designed to resemble an artifact that, according to the press notes, “was found somewhere and unearthed,” the film is a brutish stunt that slowly evolves into a nightmarish fairy tale. | 'Trash Humpers': Harmony Korine?s Geriatric Delinquents 2010-05-07T00:19:00Z Even their early romance had an over-the-top, fairy tale quality. Rachel Feinstein and John Currin, Their Own Best Creations 2011-03-11T21:40:24Z Another address belongs to the fairy tale home where Kahane stays. Gabriel Kahane's moving love letter to L.A., 'The Ambassador' 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z There are many references in “Carthage” to magical spells and fairy tales and children’s storybooks. Books of The Times: ‘Carthage,’ by Joyce Carol Oates 2014-02-05T21:32:23Z Remember, I had been part of believing in the fairy tale, and this is the whole crux of the whole drama surrounding it. Diana would "entirely agree with Harry's assessment of the royal family," says royals expert 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z They were a miracle, an escape, a yearned-for fairy tale in a time when people faced the harsh realities of the Great Depression. The Dionne Quints Were Premature and Tiny. But Fame Was the Real Problem. 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z The original story is a fairy tale; as staged at Bard by Thaddeus Strassberger, it was an allegory about the suppression of female desire. ‘The Demon’ Review: Obsession and Seduction 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z That the things in Korean fairy tales or superstitions are actually just one half-step away from where we are already. Shooting hoops and K-dramas: The American dream of not being relegated to a subplot 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z “Everyone was happy for him,” Hans Christian Andersen writes at the end of his fairy tale. Justin Peck Calmly Creates a Kingdom at City Ballet 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z It was after that scoundrel Hans leaves Anna to freeze to death, and she sings the moving song “True Love,” in which she blames herself for being duped into believing in a fairy tale romance. My Son Loves Elsa From ‘Frozen.’ I Had to Learn to Love Her, Too. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z For the farmers who nurtured these fields for centuries, the notion that people in North America, Europe and beyond are enjoying the fruits of their vineyards may indeed seem like a fairy tale. Finding Wine and Meaning in Ancient Vineyards 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Ellen, in the present, is a psychology student, and we also hear recitations of the fairy tales she delights in as a child. ‘Fatal Attraction’ Review: Here’s Why She Did It 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Loren still looks upon her life as a "fairy tale." Sophia Loren calls AFI Film Festival honor 'this wonderful prize' 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z The retelling of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale plays up the Huntsman, a secondary character in the centuries-old tale, who now becomes Snow White's protector and mentor. "Thor" star in talks to join "Snow White" movie 2011-05-10T00:25:17Z I like when a movie has an abstract set of images because it allows you to access more of the fairy tale and mythic quality. "It's America's genre": Thandiwe Newton defends her land in "God's Country," a modern-day western 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Each resembles a European fairy tale – not the Disneyfied versions, but the original stories where children are eaten and little mermaids dissolve into foam. The return of "Atlanta" is perfectly timed, delivering its sharp honesty when we need it most 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z It is all too easy to get lost in Lorcan Finnegan’s twisted fairy tale of suburban parenthood and conformity gone berserk. Five Science-Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Randall G. Chiarelli’s lighting, particularly in that quiet glade, gives this fairy tale the soft, burnished beauty of a classic painting. PNB’s ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ is simply a dream 2014-02-03T20:10:23Z Walking the streets of his old neighborhood Mr. Mendelsohn credited Jacques Demy, who staged romantic fairy tales and MGM-style musicals in the drab French provinces, with “giving me the permission to make movies here.” O Suburbia, With a Touch of the Cosmic 2011-03-05T05:23:05Z “There is nothing cute about this movie,” A. O. Scott wrote in his review in The Times of this reimagining of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Hanna’ and ‘The Highwaymen’ 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Lythgoe shows reinterpret panto — the British Christmas tradition dating to the 1700s of musical comedy that mixes classic fairy tales with modern pop songs. Lythgoe Family Productions betting on panto 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z The original “Maleficent” was a rethink of the fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty,” from which the titular character, played by Angelina Jolie, was plucked. ‘Maleficent’ Sequel Disappoints at Box Office 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Jane’s goodness is as axiomatic as that of a fairy tale princess. Movie Review: ‘The East,’ Written by Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling 2013-05-30T20:11:16Z The result is a bit like someone trying to steal the fire from some highfalutin' operatic debut by staging a fractured fairy tale on fuzzy guitar and keyboards in some small loft the week before. Review: Haste makes nonstop non sequitur in 'Awesome' member Jose Bold's 'Spidermann' 2011-01-21T18:59:04Z As a kid I was drawn to fairy tales . Amanda Knox: By the Book 2013-05-07T18:24:20Z There might be no better illustration of the lasting, unsettling power of fairy tales. Fairy Tales About the Fears Within 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z “Most of it was shot on location, but I did my best to make the whole movie look like a fairy tale,” he said. Serge Gainsbourg Biographical Film by Joann Sfar 2011-08-27T03:33:02Z ‘I always wondered why the girl didn’t save herself,” Ursula Vernon said about the fairy tales she read as a kid. Ursula Vernon elevates a rodent to royalty 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z With the hand-drawn “Princess and the Frog” and the digital “Tangled,” Disney tried to breathe new life into its classic tradition of adapting fairy tales. Disney’s healthy choice 2012-06-05T20:00:00Z The term “fairy tale” was deployed more than once. Charles III Was Crowned King. But Can He Ever Be the Star? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z Road Not Taken is a successful brew of the fairy tale adventure and the deep, deep puzzle game. Reviews: Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, Metrico, Hohokum and Road Not Taken 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z A favorite among critics at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, this Georgian film from Alexandre Koberidze comes described as both a fairy tale and a city symphony. New Fall Movies 2021: Here Are More Than 125 Coming Soon 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Victorian society defanged fairy tales, then Disney finished the job, but in their original versions, they're full of horror. Studio Ghibli: Leave the boys behind 2011-07-14T21:00:03Z Instead, it would further a romance with all the elements of a fairy tale. At the Magic Kingdom, a ‘Magical’ Wedding 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Think of every female-centered fairy tale, makeover show and sitcom in which a skittish librarian type finally ditches her glasses and lets her hair down. Look at him: Why can’t straight guys acknowledge male beauty without freaking out? 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z In “Fable,” your story in this week’s issue, a man is asked by his therapist to tell the story of his life as a kind of fairy tale. This Week in Fiction: Charles Yu on Therapy and Storytelling 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Following in the footsteps of the revisionist fantasy "Maleficent," Disney's new "Cinderella" movie has arrived — clad in glass slippers, of course — as the studio's latest live-action fairy tale. 'Cinderella' remake offers some of that old Disney magic, reviews say 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Funny, fractured fairy tales for children, 8 to 12. A Fairy Tale Reading List 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z The protagonist of “The Seas” believes she is a mermaid, and much of your work flirts with magic or fairy tale themes. Samantha Hunt: By the Book 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z "Strange Magic," the new animated musical fairy tale from the mind and the mixtape of George Lucas, is indeed strange. 'Strange Magic' casts a musical spell, but as a movie it misses 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z It was as if they were shrugging off the old Hollywood clichés about fairy tale dressing along with the acres of cloth that usually goes with them. The Best and Worst Moments of the 2022 Oscars 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z What: This musical adaptation of a fairy tale — with a dash of Louisiana spice — follows a red-hooded duck as she encounters a Big Bad Gator in New Orleans. In D.C., something onstage for any age 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z But Sam and Suzy, while their story has the charms of a fairy tale and some of its terrors, aren’t playing at love. Movie Review: Wes Anderson’s ‘Moonrise Kingdom,’ With Bruce Willis 2012-05-24T22:46:29Z It's a fairy tale, yes, but with dark shadows lurking in the corners. Susan Boyle's fairy tale dream tempered by reality 2012-10-21T10:33:09Z But fans of the Hollywood fairy tale will be in for a shock with Hazanavicius's latest. France's Godard at 83 screens a 3D 'Adieu' at Cannes 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z And as Lisa McElroy explores in a guest post today, it’s a chance for their parents to put fairy tales in their proper place. Motherlode: One Lucky Prince 2011-04-28T15:30:39Z “Lynch’s films are fairy tales far more than Disney’s are,” Mr. Wright said. Finding an Original Heroine 2011-04-02T03:13:01Z It's not a fair fight, and I suspect the makers of "Snow White and the Huntsman" know it, but apparently you can't mess with the endings of fairy tales. Charlize Theron's evil Queen steals the spotlight in 'Snow White' 2012-05-31T00:45:04Z It was imaginary, of a place that no longer exists, the realm of dusty maps and fairy tales and myths, and yet for my entire childhood it was who I was. Television: The Persian-ness of ?Shahs of Sunset? on Bravo 2012-03-09T23:39:45Z And it affected me in the way that fairy tales did when I was a child, planting seemingly simple seeds that flowered into endless shades of night. A Searing First Encounter With David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet’ 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z It's a fairy tale that's kind of intermeshed with reality in a strange way. Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z Some of the film's storylines play out too much like a fairy tale. Don't believe the K-dramas: Look to "Return to Seoul" for a more realistic view on Korean adoptees 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z An unashamed and genially preposterous fairy tale, a kind of "Cinderella" with restraints, "50 Shades" is about as believable as "Jack and the Beanstalk," albeit considerably more kinky in intent. Film review: 'Fifty Shades' brings little pleasure 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z SUN Original musical adaptation of the fairy tale, 1 and 4 p.m. Community calendar 2011-11-16T23:08:03Z The multitasking Mr. Gaiman is the author of the best-selling adult fairy tale “The Ocean at the End of the Lane” and the children’s books “Coraline” and “Stardust,” which have been made into films. Neil Gaiman Follows the Guiding Light of Instinct 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z She knows that the overwhelming majority of her peers ‘‘fail’’ as princesses; most girls don’t get the fairy tale. I’m saving myself for God: True stories from evangelical purity culture 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z But it has a special appeal to ordinary Frenchwomen who don’t read much and long for a classic fantasy fairy tale.” Books of Styles: A Defiant ‘Oui’ for ‘Fifty Shades’ 2013-01-16T23:10:38Z She describes her work as “historical fantasies, akin to fairy tales” because she’s writing about the exceptions as if they were commonplace. Perspective | Female-centered historical novels are dogged by questions of accuracy. Hence the author’s note. 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z This is the first film by Tarantino with genuine heart, and the first to make good on that fairy tale title, “Once Upon A Time.” Quentin Tarantino's artful pulp: On alchemy, fantasy and "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Separation, affairs and divorce: The end of the fairy tale was the beginning of Diana’s emergence as a modern role model. Analysis | Princess Diana died 25 years ago but endures as a role model for women 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z And in "What Remains of Edith Finch," narrative, in the form of little fairy tales, is the driving force. Giant Sparrow's 'Edith Finch' unveils a life-and-death game with no guns 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z The movie, based loosely on the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale “The Snow Queen,” was always conceived of as a musical. The Carpetbagger: How ‘Let It Go’ Upended the ‘Frozen’ Plot 2014-02-14T17:45:37Z The stories are louche, mischievous and very queer — fairy tales scrambled with fan fiction and body horror. ‘In the Dream House’ Recounts an Abusive Relationship Using Dozens of Genres 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z "It's like a fairy tale," Des tells his uncle, but it's actually like a wheezing burlesque show about the crude desires of an ignorant, violent man and London's appetite for reading about him. 'Lionel Asbo': from brothel to brawl and back in dystopian England 2012-09-13T20:25:05Z "Getting involved with the case and trying to help her family made me realize that our idea of justice is a fairy tale inspired by TV shows and movies." Sci-fi and fantasy authors reveal truths in the strangest fiction 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z When the “Little House” books were first published, beginning in the thirties, the illustrations, primarily by Helen Sewell, had an Old World quality, with a visual style that evokes fairy tales and woodcuts. Garth Williams, Illustrator of American Childhood 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z "Fairy tales are my language, all fairy tales from any part of the planet," he said. French animator brings 3D magic to Berlin festival 2011-02-13T13:58:13Z What distinguishes the movie from other fairy tales, A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times, “is that it balances its own magical thinking with the knowledge that not everyone lives happily ever after.” What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Good Trouble’ and ‘Project Blue Book’ 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The fairy tale scenery — singing birds, pristine air, cool moss clinging to the rocks — called to every sense. Helsinki’s food scene, coming on strong Ms. Zimmerman presses a dark vision of the patriarchal oppression at the root of the fairy tale. The Met Opera’s ‘Rusalka’ Is a Dark, Sexy Hit 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Cinderella, a modern take on the classic fairy tale, was seen at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol last year. 'Queen welcome' at London theatre 2012-06-28T09:11:08Z He also illustrated his own translation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales in his pen-and-ink style. Children's illustrator Blegvad dies 2014-02-12T12:45:29Z In both cases, the fairy tale is a coverup, obscuring bodies and blood. Two Broadway Shows Dismantle the American Myth 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z And not just in love, but the kind of mad, inexplicable, pathological love that you typically only find in fairy tales and the DSM-V. "Wild Mountain Thyme" review: John Patrick Shanley delivers the year’s most demented rom-com 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Nixon notes that his trusted adviser “was like a figure from a fairy tale, a quaint little tinker passing from town to town, peddling his magical wares.” ‘Crooked’ review: Nixon narrates his story in this comic alt-history 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Yarovesky’s fairy tale spookfest ultimately doesn’t measure up to the moody ingenuity of those reference points, but its devotion to frights makes it memorable. ‘Nightbooks’ Review: A Fairy Tale Horror Fit for Kids 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Their simple, swift and spirited performance, more relatable than any fairy tale, was hard to top. Dance Review: New York Theater Ballet Revives ‘Cinderella’ at Gould Hall 2014-03-03T21:48:04Z They bring him strawberries and yogurt; they find him refuge in an abandoned hut; they make him into a figure in a fairy tale they enact. Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z In a brief play session at E3, “King’s Quest” was alternately amiable and goofy, the sort of bright hand-drawn fairy tale world one wants to get lost in. Ten games that made a lasting impression at E3 2015 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z “I had a fight with my mom,” Delilah tells him one night, the fairy tale open to the only page where he’s alone and can speak freely. Review: In ‘Between the Lines,’ Romance Is Thwarted by Reality 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z Every story takes on some element of, not necessarily diversity in the world, but a virtue of representation in the world that we haven't really seen in a fairy tale. What would today's fairy tale look like if you could "un-Disney-fy people's brains"? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Crucially, though, she’s also revising herself, revisiting those streamlined fairy tales she used to propagate and adding in all the doubts and complications she once left out — or wasn’t yet aware of. Taylor Swift, 30-Something, Is Revising Her Own Love Stories 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z "The Red Shoes": Classic fairy tales are often fodder for musical theater. Musicals from movies, TV, history try to find footing on slippery Broadway 2010-12-18T01:22:59Z Visual arts David Hockney Once upon a time, an artist named David Hockney made 39 etchings for a lovely book of six Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Madonna's in town, plus 15 other things to do this week 2012-10-01T14:01:55Z In spite of the lovingly detailed suburban ambience, interiors, gardens and clothes, the atmosphere feels torqued beyond time and history into a fairy tale theater of desire and wan hope. Evil Stepmother, Reimagined 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Even though we generally associate fairy tales with childhood, the five books reviewed here — except for Walter de la Mare’s “Told Again” — are mainly intended for grown-ups. Michael Dirda reviews five fairy-tale books 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Outside of an actual fairy tale, what’s more like that than a mob movie? Cannes 2015: In 'Tale of Tales,' reimagining Disney via Del Toro 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z But in the current political and media landscape, it’s also kind of a fairy tale. Shocking movie portrayal: Why “Obvious Child” is a revolutionary fairy tale 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Built around the idea of keys, locks and magic doors, the stories cover a wide territory — including mythology and fairy tales, and smartphones and YouTube stars. Notable fiction in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Then she stepped into a forest of trees, approaching a fairy tale cottage that — with a Flash! Fashion Review: Sarah Burton Shows McQ, the Alexander McQueen Second Line 2012-02-21T18:19:33Z And like so many fairy tales, she promised to give up her powers for the man she loved and change herself so she could live in his world. 21 TV Shows That Revolutionized Female Sexuality 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Instead, this outfitting of a fairy tale with heavy weaponry may have arrived too late in the cycle of Grimm Brothers updates. Hansel & Gretel Grab Some Candy on a Skimpy Weekend 2013-01-27T16:18:04Z His arrival in Manhattan was also quite bedazzled, a Grimm’s fairy tale in an increasingly Grindr city. Di Mondo May Be the Most-Photographed Man in New York 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Was the collective musical romp of "Into the Woods," a virtual round robin, its ensemble sharing the needle to stitch together one fairy tale after another, truly dismissed? SAG Awards 2015: 'Birdman' yes, but 'Theory'? Cast nominations a puzzle 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z “These are the creatures,” he wrote, “that prove fairy tales to be more veracious than ancient history.” Creating a Lost World, From the Fossils Out 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z But placing Tim and his brood in genial comfort may be Curtis’ indication to audiences that this is a fairy tale, a parable about the capturing of missed opportunities. About Time: Richard Curtis’ Love, Repeatedly 2013-10-31T16:07:04Z “It was just magical — straight out of a fairy tale,” she said, adding that a video of the wedding is starting to circulate on YouTube. Man with Alzheimer’s forgot he was married to his wife. He proposed, and they wed again: ‘There wasn’t a dry eye.’ 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z In the fairy tales we grow up with – “Cinderella,” “Snow White,” “Shrek” – the smallfolk achieve their apotheosis by marrying into royal families, not seizing and redistributing power from them. Our “Game of Thrones” fantasy: Democracy is almost nonexistent in Westeros—and we like it that way 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z While others, like her parents, simply dismissed religion as a chaotic system of fairy tales, Pagels has felt impelled to keep asking, “Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century?” Review | After her son and husband died, Elaine Pagels wondered why religion survives 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z "Since nine-eleven," a military interrogator tells Nair, "chasing myths and fairy tales has turned into a serious business. An industry. A lucrative one." Fall books preview: A busy literary season ahead 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z “The Pisces” is part satire, part fairy tale and, sometimes jarringly, part meditation on addiction. The Merman of Her Dreams 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z You expect certain phrases in fairy tales: “Once upon a time,” “true love’s kiss,” “happily ever after.” Spare Times for Children for May 22-28 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z From their earliest fairy tales, it is the Great Event. What Do the Sex Lives of ‘Three Women’ Tell Us About Female Desire? 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z The atmosphere, to my eyes, is less Tranquility Base than an enchanted forest, like something out of an old fairy tale—which, for twenty-first-century children, it might as well be. Goodnight Moon Landing 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Quichotte needs more than one key to more than one door, although, at last, because this is a fairy tale, the final door opens by itself. Salman Rushdie Updates ‘Don Quixote’ for the Digital Age 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z He’s interrupted by a red-cloaked girl declaring that the book is actually a fairy tale. Picture Books That Show the World Through a Child’s Eyes 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z In contrast with better movies of this type, “Charlie’s Angels” seemed particularly regressive, partly because it presented itself as a new fairy tale. ‘Charlie’s Angels’ Review: Um, You Go, Girls? 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Her marionettes of 1918, tiny and elaborately constructed, seemingly derived from a dark fairy tale, will be a revelation for many. A Swiss Dada Pioneer Finally Gets Her Spotlight 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z McInerney knows that life, especially life after an emotional tsunami, does not wrap itself up in a fairy tale bow. Nora McInerny rejects the cult of positivity that demands we get over grief: "Bitch, how?" 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z The opening lines of “Forest of Europe” conjure both the tangible and marvelous, without ever succumbing to surrealism or the fairy tale of Magical Realism. Derek Walcott's poetry had grandeur, an exuberance of language 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Next week’s program will investigate “creepy crawlies” — garden residents, no matter what the era — and offer children nature-theme fairy tales and an opportunity to make pencil sketches of the flora and fauna. Spare Times for Children for July 18-24 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z According to the Walt Disney Co., mere mortals can achieve this fairy tale. What’s it like getting married at Disney? It’s not always a fairy tale. 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z The cleverness of intertwining the various fairy tales, uncovering the hidden meanings which makes us look at them in a whole new light and seeing our own humanity, is pure genius. ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Of fairy tales and failed attempts at quietude, of a child’s memory soup of imagination. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Mythology also takes center stage in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” with Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo performing the fairy tale comedy. In Transit Blog: Fables and Fantasy Infuse 40th Hong Kong Arts Festival 2012-01-30T11:00:26Z “Then,” he added, “there’s the wordplay, the dance of literary references, the Rabelaisian humor, all packed into what I like to think of as ‘fairy tales for adults.’ John Woods, Masterly Translator of Thomas Mann, Dies at 80 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z For his latest multimedia installation, “WS,” Mr. McCarthy has packed the Park Avenue Armory this summer with scenes of degradation, violence, nudity and sex in his reimagining of the Snow White fairy tale. News Analysis: Art That Turns Both Heads and Stomachs 2013-07-13T18:23:01Z Shippey notes one key to Tolkien’s ongoing appeal: The ancient world Tolkien drew on “existed before fairy tale, a merciless world without a Geneva Convention,” he wrote. 4 books for fans of J.R.R. Tolkien 2013-12-20T23:28:45Z Choosing height over depth, Dominique Colin’s stunning cinematography slides over treetops and adolescent skin, giving buttery daylight and fuzzy twilight a fairy tale magic. Review: ‘The Summer of Sangaile,’ Evanescent and Too Good to Be True 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Walt Disney Co's animated musical "Frozen" features the voice of Kristen Bell as a Scandinavian princess in a story inspired by "The Snow Queen" fairy tale. 'The Hobbit' tops 'Anchorman' sequel at weekend box office 2013-12-23T05:53:08Z What is the cultural function of a fairy tale? Now it can be (re)told 2011-08-20T14:01:00Z What followed was far from a fairy tale of overnight success, though. Sam Fender, a Songwriter Caught Between Stardom and His Hometown 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z FRI-SUN Thistle Theatre puppet version of the fairy tale, 7:30 p.m. Community calendar 2011-10-05T22:25:05Z In her acknowledgments, Warner thanks, among others, Jack Zipes, “the well-named hero of fairy tale studies and mentor to so many readers and scholars.” Michael Dirda reviews five fairy-tale books 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z The protected forest, located south of Brussels near the town of Halle, draws locals and tourists to witness a landscape that looks plucked from a fairy tale. Bluebell flowers decorate Belgian forest floor 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z The lights dim as she runs in the direction of the few restaurants left open at this time of night, with E Corp’s rolling blackouts providing her sojourn the atmosphere of a dark fairy tale. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2, Episode 10: Anatomy of a Murder 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The three new book-length fairy tales gathered here are all made up of the most common ingredients: ogres and witches, princesses and woodcutters. Once, Twice, Thrice Upon a Time 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Diane’s tale is an empowering story for women, which happens to be based on a classic fairy tale.” Lacroix and Blahnik Star in Fashion Fairy Tales 2012-02-29T18:45:55Z Life as it is may not be what a young person wants; life as it ought to be is perhaps not far from a fairy tale. This Week in Fiction: Yiyun Li on Fairy Tales 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Her lyrics ranged from simple declarations of love and loneliness to dark stories steeped in the imagery of fairy tales. 2010-01-08T06:17:00Z “It is because in the aftermath of Katrina, America was told a fairy tale about a monster storm, a city below the sea and corrupt local officials,” she wrote back. Don’t Call It Katrina 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z The story of Diana started like a fairy tale and ended like a Greek tragedy: a handsome prince, a beautiful princess, then fame, betrayal, reinvention and a fatal car crash 25 years ago in Paris. Analysis | Princess Diana died 25 years ago but endures as a role model for women 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z The opening scene in this fairy tale for adults is a magical, nostalgically recreated Tehran of the late 1950s. Film: At Venice Film Festival, Love, Sex and Bickering 2011-09-06T11:55:32Z The title story, for example, plays off an old fairy tale: A young doctor is warned to be kind to his new wife, a princess. Best science fiction and fantasy books this month 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Or for younger audiences, "Aquamarine" or even "H2O: Just Add Water"? Maybe your mind goes to children's fairy tales, in which mermaids are fantastical creatures, destined to become princesses. "There's serious athleticism" to being a professional mermaid 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z "Snow White & the Huntsman," a revisionist telling of the classic fairy tale, is only earning fair reviews from critics in its opening weekend. Movie Scores: How the critics rated the new movies 2012-06-01T19:35:09Z “Game of Thrones” impersonates a fairy tale, with its dragons and maidens and knights and the rest. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: A Regression to the Mean 2014-04-21T02:01:11Z Instead of plumbers and mushrooms, the Soviet games feature the protagonists of old Russian fairy tales like wolves, foxes, and rabbits. Russian video arcade captures dying culture 2013-01-20T20:00:00Z It is oddly transfixing, though, as a study in the semiotics of the modernized fairy tale. ‘Cinderella’ Review: A Girlboss in Glass Slippers 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z “Where to Invade Next” is really a fairy tale with a moral. Review: ‘Where to Invade Next,’ Michael Moore’s Latest Documentary 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z As with all fairy tales, there are lessons in these books: Cultivate inner beauty. Fairy Tale Heroines, But With Depth 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z For the first time in our history the idea of democracy is a real, tangible idea, not a fairy tale. Libyan revolution has made democracy real and tangible idea, says novelist 2011-08-26T19:11:21Z The constraints of Wick World put it safely on the side of full-blown fantasy, giving the series the feel of a grim fairy tale. ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Review: There Will Be Blood, Yeah 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z “People like to believe in fairy tales,” she says. Jackie Kennedy: The First Instagram First Lady 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Staged at Christmastime and performed throughout much of the Anglophone world, pantos take classic fairy tales and zhuzh them up with famous guest stars, topical humor and song parodies. Silly Season: How British Pantomime Looks From Across the Pond 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z THE portrayal of Bruges in the 2008 dark comedy “In Bruges” was of a fairy tale city so dull it nearly drove Colin Farrell’s character mad. A Weekend in Bruges: Beyond Cobbled Lanes and Medieval Canals 2012-02-23T16:11:54Z The gothic fairy tales written in the following years, collected in “The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington,” offer a hint of the dark turbulence behind those eyes. Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z It’s also a nod to fairy tales, though not the Disney versions. Review | ‘Mexican Gothic’ is a creepy, intoxicating mystery that’s almost impossible to put down 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The problem: In the fairy tale, the only way to break the spell was to kill the king. 'Once Upon a Time': A tale of two queens in 'Heroes and Villains' 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Is Ms. Zimmerman treating the work as a whimsical fairy tale? Music Review: Rossini?s ?Armida? Has Its Premiere at the Met 2010-04-13T20:20:00Z Gathering the living, the dead and the undead together on a single, surreal plane, the movie turns its sordid, sex-trafficking plot into a decadent, redemptive fairy tale. ‘Dreamland’ Review: The Hit Man and the Trumpeter 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z It’s a pungent book but a flat one, narrow in its emotional range, a bleak, meandering and muddy-soled mix of fairy tale and folk horror. Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘Lapvona’ Is Gloomy Folk Horror Set Long Ago 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z But back to our fairy tale: Diana, by then the stateside “People’s Princess,” travels abroad often for the Princess Diana Foundation, and to London often to see her sons. 20 Years After Diana’s Death, a Happier Ending Imagined 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z This year, the festival is presenting Rossini’s buoyant 1817 “Cinderella,” a comic drama in two acts based on Charles Perrault’s famous fairy tale. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Based on the Disney film, the fairy tale tells the story of Belle, a young woman from a French village, whose attempt to rescue her father leads her to meet the Beast. The best theater events of summer 2019 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Disney's animated fairy tale "Brave" weathered the entrance of the edgier "Ice Age" and landed in the No. 4 spot. "Ice Age" puts chill on "Spider-Man" at box offices 2012-07-15T22:24:56Z But in a way, he creates the fairy tale out of what turns out to be a realistic story. Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z My fairy tale seemingly shattered, I started to cry. Accepting Applications for a Black Boyfriend 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The first picture book, a fairy tale of “big waves and even bigger courage,” titled “Maya and the Beast” and illustrated by Ramona Kaulitzki, comes out Aug. 2. Surfer Maya Gabeira has book deal with children’s publisher 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z In the hindsight of history, it's easy to see why young Lady Diana Spencer's story seemed at first such a fairy tale. Why the monarchy needed Diana: "She had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin" 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Walt Disney Studios was in a funk in 1959 after its expensive, lavishly animated fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty" didn't awaken at the box office. '101 Dalmatians' was just the hit a flagging Disney needed 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z In “Midnight Sun,” a life-threatening illness inspires a gilded fairy tale. Review: In ‘Midnight Sun,’ the Dawn of Romance Can Be Fatal 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z What is it like to be part of this diverse, feminist retelling of a classic fairy tale? On Broadway, ‘Bad Cinderella’ Is a Rebel With a Brooklyn Accent 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Because it's a fairy tale, it's nothing realistic. "Emily In Paris" star Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu: "It's so much fun to play a villain" 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Glad Bags “We told children to think about how pictures tell a story like in fairy tales,” says the Marni designer Consuelo Castiglioni about the latest chapter in her ongoing project to help underprivileged children. T Magazine: Glad Bags 2010-11-15T23:54:00Z This sequel, directed by Mike Disa, takes the same characters and instead of refashioning a fairy tale, casts them in an action film plot. Capsule reviews: `Fast Five,' `Prom' 2011-04-27T13:28:09Z He casts this as ancient wisdom, delivered through religious allegories and fairy tales which contain truth, he says, that modern society has forgotten. Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z And then applauding because Dakota Johnson is so sunny and likable you want this fairy tale to continue. The seven most wonderfully ridiculous moments in Fifty Shades Darker 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z If fairy tales inevitably involve quests, the landscape of “Once Upon a One More Time” is one in which the female characters are out to find themselves. What’s next for Britney Spears fans? A Shakespeare Theatre musical that may be headed to Broadway. 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z One could dwell on the ways in which Some Kind of Fairy Tale riffs off fairy tales and offers commentary on them. Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce – review 2012-07-04T07:00:02Z The deal includes a novel and a book of fairy tales called "The Land of Stories." Five pop culture items we missed 2011-06-08T23:09:00Z A protracted, adults-only act of mischief perpetrated on the familiar fairy tale, “Snow White” first appeared, in its entirety, in The New Yorker, in 1967. Donald Barthelme’s “Snow White” Finally Comes to the Stage 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z In order to help Regina figure out who the author of the "Once Upon a Time" fairy tale book is, he decides to go undercover as his Dark One grandpa's apprentice/after-school employee. 'Once Upon a Time': Anna's contract, Hook's date and 'The Apprentice' 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z "Beasts" and "Devil" share other attributes, notably a fairy tale, dreamlike backdrop. 'In the Garden of Beasts': Erik Larson plumbs terror in Nazi Germany 2011-05-05T20:00:16Z “We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth,” she admonished a crowd of world leaders. Perspective | Greta Thunberg weaponized shame in an era of shamelessness 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z For a moment, I let myself indulge the fantasy that I was in a fairy tale, and that, for Bosnia, happily ever after might finally be within grasp. A Journey to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Where Sleeping Beauty Awakens 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Zimmerman is known for inventively adapting mythology and fairy tales to modern sensibilities. The 99-Seat Beat: The play staged in the art gallery, Mary Zimmerman's 'Secret' and more picks 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Against it: Again, Sondheim fans are a demanding bunch, and then there are hundreds of academy members who'd just as soon eat last year's fruitcake than sit through a musical about fairy tale characters. Christmas movies vying for Oscar voters' attention 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z These are fairy tales; they’re entertaining, but a lot of things which are depicted are, of course, wrong. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z Mr. Eschenbach said the film score added “a kind of modern fairy tale” to this year’s theme. For the Vienna Philharmonic, Summer Means Schönbrunn 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z The Grimm fairy tales were too dark for me as a child, too many parents abandoning or selling or eating their children. How Karen Joy Fowler’s Grandfather Lied His Way Into a Who’s Who 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The fairy tales in “Castles and Dragons” were the first ones that I loved unreservedly. How Karen Joy Fowler’s Grandfather Lied His Way Into a Who’s Who 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z “Brigadoon,” Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s 1947 fairy tale of time-defying love, was being given a single, starry concert presentation as part of a benefit gala for the Irish Repertory Theater. Theater Talkback: One Night Only 2010-06-16T18:09:00Z In the age of the fairy tale, this was not a particularly relevant question. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Maleficent’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Sneaking lessons and morals into children’s stories might seem like trying to con a picky eater by discreetly tucking spinach into a meatball, but it’s a tradition as old as fairy tales themselves. Fantasies for Young Readers, With an Eye on Today’s Fears and Divisions 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z There was nothing in my life that was anything remotely close to a fairy tale — so it was such a magical time of discovery for me. Misty Copeland on diversity in dance, her 'Nutcracker' princess and coming home for the holidays 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z In the final Potter book, we learn about The Tale of the Three Brothers, a wizard fairy tale unfamiliar to the Muggle-raised Harry. Here's the Latest Harry Potter Theory That's Driving Fans Crazy 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Yet the effect of a fairy tale, a designation often applied to Meijer’s work — a previous collection of stories, “Heartbreaker,” and a novella, “Northwood” — depends on its clear delineation of good and evil. Stories That Double as a Field Guide to Women’s Desires and Miseries 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Unlike a fairy tale, “The Dutch House” is peopled not with archetypes but with distinctive and believable characters. Ann Patchett Spins a Modern Fairy Tale in Her Luminous New Novel 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Based on the popular fairy tale satire written by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith, this family theater production portrays the hero of “Jack and the Beanstalk” as a kind of latter-day Scheherazade. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Down in the pit another kind of fairy tale was unfolding: Robin Ticciati, a baby-faced British conductor recently named music director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, had an impressive Met debut. Music Review: ?Hansel and Gretel? at Metropolitan Opera - Review 2011-12-18T22:44:20Z Under Peña’s direction, the shifts between time periods, and between realism and fairy tale, are not always fluid. In ‘Once Upon a (korean) Time,’ Bedtime Stories to Keep You Up at Night 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Wilson described the opera as “a fairy tale, another world,” in which the Chinese princess Turandot, who initially refuses to marry, “is having fun being evil.” At 80, Robert Wilson Holds On to a Singular Vision for the Stage 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z It sounds like a sports fairy tale, except that Gleason is no gridiron hero out of Central Casting. In ‘Gleason,’ filmmaker Clay Tweel follows an unintentional hero’s journey 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z It’s odd that someone who finds beauty in these stark, dehumanized places has chosen to live in what seems like the opposite, a fairy tale castle, Moby is told. At Home With Moby: A Castle for the King of Techno 2011-04-28T03:00:42Z The story was inspired by "The Snow Queen" fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Disney's 'Frozen' wins animated feature Oscar 2014-03-03T02:33:22Z There are currently two “dark and less campy” television dramas based on old fairy tales — “Grimm” and “Once Upon a Time.” “Community” botches damage control 2012-05-24T16:00:00Z So, of course, our use of this call is another iteration of how we use animals in our stories, from fairy tales to myths. Raptor porn: The ridiculous proliferation of the red-tail call 2013-12-28T00:00:00Z That sense of play, of unserious-seriousness, translates into joyous, ecstatic compositions, and turns painting into a fantasy space, supported by stories that sound like modern fairy tales. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Has the function of a fairy tale changed? Now it can be (re)told 2011-08-20T14:01:00Z "Maleficent" tells the beloved "Sleeping Beauty" fairy tale from the perspective of Aurora's evil nemesis, revealing the back story that led her to curse the girl as a baby. Production begins on Disney's `Maleficent' 2012-06-19T19:41:47Z Would you buy your children a beautiful new volume of classic fairy tales this season? Motherlode Blog: Are Fairy Tales Really for Children? 2011-11-28T21:01:09Z One, the Goritsky, which looks like something from a Russian fairy tale, is the home of the local museum, which was closed. Driving Russia’s Revived Golden Ring 2012-08-31T19:01:44Z His first-act Pericles is winsome but shocked, his wit stealthily present, like the simple son in a fairy tale. The Continual Riddle of Shakespeare’s “Pericles” 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z A pleasant if occasionally humdrum fairy tale, "The Odd Life of Timothy Green" lets us spend two hours in the company of some very nice people. 'The Odd Life of Timothy Green' is a humdrum fairy tale 2012-08-14T17:00:05Z “Grace of Monaco” debunks the fairy-tale ending of Princess Grace and her charming prince to create its own fairy tale, only this one is more like “The Mouse That Roared.” Review: ‘Grace of Monaco,’ a Fractured Fairy Tale on Lifetime 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Less predictable than mere grown-up fairy tales, the curiously captivating stories in this collection map out a natural world that we perversely imagine ourselves to be outside. Beyond Angry Birds: great cellphone reads 2013-03-01T21:31:28Z The opera company brightens winter with a family celebration featuring a bilingual, Barcelona-set retelling of a fairy tale: “Cinderella en España.” 6 things to do for classical-music fans in Seattle, Feb. 3 edition 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z But you know, even if you’re not familiar with the true story behind “Lion,” that the fairy tale will come true. Review: ‘Lion’ Brings Tears for a Lost Boy, Wiped Dry by Google 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Where many see a heartwarming modern classic full of good old American values, others see a mawkish, manipulative baby-boomer fairy tale. 'Forrest Gump' to get Imax theatrical re-release for 20th anniversary 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z “La Cenerentola,” Rossini’s version of the Cinderella fairy tale, is Cinderella’s show. Opera Review: DiDonato and Camarena Shine in ‘La Cenerentola’ at the Met 2014-04-22T09:30:43Z There's something for everyone: Nudge-wink gags go right over kids' heads, but the stories are based on fairy tales. 'Pinocchio,' British panto-style, in Federal Way 2011-12-01T22:01:04Z "Frozen" features the voice of Kristen Bell as a Scandinavian princess on a search for her sister in a story inspired by "The Snow Queen" fairy tale. Dwarves, dragon and a 'Hobbit' dominate box office 2013-12-15T17:07:11Z There is a huge general audience for live-action fairy tales, at least judging by the pace at which Disney seems to be greenlighting them. Cannes 2015: In 'Tale of Tales,' reimagining Disney via Del Toro 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z One can see in videos of her shows, which typically last 35 minutes and invoke Chinese fairy tales, the artistic yearnings of a woman — yearnings that until then had a limited outlet. T Magazine: Year of the Couturi?re 2010-12-01T17:25:00Z Composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, it is a cartoonish political satire dressed up as a fairy tale, in which he pushed his usual musical language — highly colored instrumentation, sinuous melodies, folk motifs — to a parodic extreme. ‘The Golden Cockerel’ Is a Ballet Bird With a Kick 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z The novella’s title is derived from a Grimms fairy tale in which an ordinary-seeming table conjures food and wine every time someone utters “Table, set yourself.” New French Fiction: From Farm to Table, With Feasting in Between 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Some fairy tales, especially the ones on Broadway, get expensive. Review: Bway's 'Cinderella' filled with freshness 2013-03-04T02:33:11Z But everyone involved is wary of doing too much tampering with what is, after all, a fairy tale. film: Much Taller, Still Plastered 2010-08-27T19:23:00Z Based on Salt's behavior, it doesn't seem to be a fairy tale, especially when a cadre of moles trained in Russia from childhood start attacking simultaneously from inside the U.S. government. 'Salt': Angelina Jolie is breathless in action-packed spy thriller 2010-07-22T17:22:00Z I know that at the University of Edinburgh, your area of study included fairy tales — specifically fear in fairy tales. Mona Awad on her sharp-voiced debut, '13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl' 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z As a meditation on loss, fear and anger, though, “The Way Back” feels as timeless as a fairy tale. Into the Woods 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z NBC's "Grimm" is a cop drama with characters based on those in Grimm Brothers' fairy tales; and NBC's "Reconstruction" is a drama set in a small town after the Civil War. Which TV pilots will take flight? 2011-03-12T01:30:06Z The Muschiettis open the movie with “once upon a time,” tipping that “Mama” is a modern fairy tale of sorts. Movie Review: ‘Mama,’ From Andy Muschietti, With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau 2013-01-17T23:30:08Z “This was the greatest, the most amazing, true story I’d ever heard, an almost archetypal fairy tale,” he said in a 2012 interview with The Times. Malik Bendjelloul, 36, Dies; Directed ‘Sugar Man’ Movie 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z “Our films are dark fairy tales with elements of grotesquerie and the pathological,” Stephen Quay said on a recent afternoon. Film: Animators Amok in a Curiosity Cabinet 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z Not the feet-sweeping stuff of fairy tales, but real, imperfect, exceptional love. Perspective | How Springsteen and soy sauce brought this couple together 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Yeats used to do, when they did that fairy tale thing? Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z I think it's so bad for us and kind of toxic in the way that we learn our fairy tales, that it ultimately extends all the way to our politics, right? What would today's fairy tale look like if you could "un-Disney-fy people's brains"? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Much scholarly ink has been spilled over the motives of Leontes, whose violent behavior toward his pregnant queen on groundless suspicions of infidelity sets the play’s fairy tale plot in motion. Review: In This ‘Winter’s Tale,’ the King Is Insane. It’s as Simple as That. 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z But “Incredible” was his first adaptation of a narrative source, Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale of the same name, set in a kingdom where good forces meet evil. Review: Peck Adapts Andersen, and Good Fights Evil Amid Fine Plumage 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z But he eventually moved on to his own anime-style show, “RWBY,” which focuses on four female warriors and in which he sought to blend Eastern and Western folklore and fairy tales with slick fight scenes. Monty Oum Dies at 33, and His Fans Grieve 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z By the time the movie kicks in, the fairy tale is over, and Laura is tapping Felix for advice, though asking a serially unfaithful father for marital counsel constitutes a kind of magical thinking. ‘On the Rocks’ Review: Daddy Dearest and His Late Bloomer 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z In this version of “The Three Little Pigs,” presented by Teatro SEA, the Latino theater for children, the fairy tale is playing on Animal Broadway, starring Mother Piggy’s offspring and the Big Bad Lady Wolf. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The Greek-myth action sequel would attract young males; the revisionist fairy tale, starring Julia Roberts as Snow White’s wicked Queen, would lure women and kids. The Hunger Games Kills Off Two New Combatants: Perseus and Snow White 2012-04-01T22:35:54Z Is this science fiction or a fairy tale? Helen Oyeyemi Dishes Up Magic in Her New Novel, ‘Gingerbread’ 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z In “The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror,” Mallory Ortberg — who launches the short story collection at Skylight on Saturday — twists fairy tales and more. Books newsletter: Tayari Jones, Jesse Ball, Lucie Brock-Broido and more in books 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z “The Shape of Water” is partly a code-scrambled fairy tale, partly a genetically modified monster movie, and altogether wonderful. Review: ‘The Shape of Water’ Is Altogether Wonderful 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z He calls the result "a scary fairy tale," though it seems more grounded in truth than fantasy. 'My Joy' takes fascinating detours on a truck driver's bleak road trip 2012-01-19T20:43:04Z But as much as it is a fairy tale, the work is the fruit of a friendship that began in the Lithuanian town where they all grew up. A Climate Opera Arrives in New York, With 21 Tons of Sand 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z As sparkly yet fleeting as lip gloss, "Monte Carlo" is a fairy tale about three young women who enter an enchanted land. 'Monte Carlo': You can bet teen girls will like it 2011-06-30T19:37:03Z The mesmerizing Tsikurishvili is even dressed like smoke, in filmy black layers that practically float around her as the nameless witch — not called Maleficent — infiltrates and darkens this evergreen fairy tale. No thorns in Synetic’s wordless yet enchanting ‘Sleeping Beauty’ 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z A good fairy tale speaks to us at each stage of our lives. Back 'Into the Woods' for librettist James Lapine, with new feeling 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z “Something like a fairy tale or traditional story,” she said. Japanese Theater Inspires a New Opera of Celestial Textures 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z In keeping with Mr. Hirst’s reputation as a serial shocker, “Treasures” presents a visual, believe-it-or-not fairy tale rooted in mythology, theology and the artist’s imagination. Damien Hirst Is Back With an Underwater Fantasy. Will Collectors Care? 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z There's a long, rich history in fairy tales of the woman in the woods. The power of Hannah Waddingham's character Mother Witch in "Hocus Pocus 2" 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z But this remains very much a study of a man who left the forest of fairy tales and never fully joined the world of getting and spending. If you liked ‘Wicked,’ you’ll be enchanted by ‘Hiddensee’ 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z No sooner had I decried sexism in the movie industry and the stories and images it creates than a female-driven, feminist-revisionist fairy tale, “Maleficent,” won the day at the box office. Critic’s Notebook: The sisters of summer Mozart's next-to-last stage work, a mixture of fairy tale and Masonic morality play, is a miraculous creation whose music has a sublime simplicity. Peter Brook reduces Mozart to bare essentials 2011-07-07T06:31:08Z In the bizarre Russian fairy tale depicted here, Kikimora is a witch raised from infancy by a magician, who regales her with stories while rocking her in a crystal cradle. Music Review: Finding the Soul of Russia Everywhere 2011-04-15T23:00:14Z But enough detail does survive not only to make the picture engaging, but also to make its mythical scene seem less like a religious archetype than a homey fairy tale. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The vocal line is melodic and ranges from pretty to the sublime, evoking occasional frissons even from gray-haired opera goers who have long outgrown fairy tales. Witch burns, audience on fire at Vienna opera show 2012-12-23T23:01:04Z There’s some enticing talent behind this contemporary riff on the classic fairy tale, in which the heroine is a young woman taken to a sleep-disorder clinic after dozing for, ahem, several centuries. The Week Ahead: April 24 ? 30 2011-04-22T14:36:40Z "It's a family show based on a fairy tale ... It's also a slight comment on a society, what's been going on in a year. It's a rag-bag of things," says Pollard. Panto dames come out to cheer Britain after a tumultuous 2016 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Like all fairy tales, “Boo Stew,” written by Donna L. Washington and illustrated by Jeffrey Ebbeler, is best read out loud. Fright Lite 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z To crown all, this imaginative anthology even makes room for Arthur Machen’s dizzyingly phantasmagoric “The White People,” and that chilling fairy tale of diabolic temptation, Lucy Clifford’s “The New Mother.” Review | Old mysteries and adventure stories deliver a dose of Grand Guignol theatricality and nonstop comic-book action 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Overall, “Monkey King” lacked the charm of Western fairy tales, medieval chivalric romances or “The Arabian Nights,” each of which it occasionally resembles. Review | The action-packed saga ‘Monkey King: Journey to the West’ gets a modern take 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z The culture of princesses -- and the traditional fairy tale of being rescued -- is still prominent. Girls take lead on TV but not in Hollywood films 2010-07-19T16:22:00Z Everybody still buys in to the fairy tale eventually. ‘UnREAL’ Season 2 Episode 4: ‘We Made All of This Happen’ 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z I preferred Grimm’s fairy tales over Hans Christian Andersen for many reasons but mostly because I’ve never forgiven Hans for writing “The Little Mermaid,” which haunted me, well, to this day. Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney Read Hemingway at Marcia Brady’s Urging 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z As bracing as these portraits of female potency and swagger are, they seem strangely straitened, relegated to the realms of animated fables, retooled fairy tales or action-driven fantasy. In summer films, contradictions of progress for women in full force This was a good thing: The outfits helped tell the story in this apocalyptic fairy tale, and the help was sorely needed. Witty steampunk chic steals the show at Deviated Theatre’s ‘Creature’ To insist on a truer reflection of your burgeoning self than a princess in a fairy tale. Perspective | Beverly Cleary taught girls to make a brave demand: Love me for how I am 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z "Into The Woods," the adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical which puts a dark spin on fairy tales, stars Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Johnny Depp. 'Hobbit' battles 'Unbroken,' 'Into the Woods' to second box office win 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z There’s no denying that Pan is one ambitious fairy tale. Peter Pan’s Backstory Is a Mess of Moviesplaining 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z In both novels, Wilson aims for “a weird kind of postmodern fairy tale” — like an animated Edward Gorey cartoon, with a more realistic contemporary setting and a warmer, lighter touch. In ‘Perfect Little World,’ a scientist hopes to create the ideal family 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z “Pride and Prejudice,” “Little Women,” every fairy tale. When Marriage Is Just Another Overhyped Nightclub 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Admittedly, it does sound intriguing, as it’s also inspired by fairy tales like Cinderella and Snow White. Theater to See This Season After a Very Long Intermission 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z High Flier, Poised for Steep Descent “Arbitrage,” a sleek entertainment about how very good greed can be, is a fairy tale masquerading as a tragedy. Movie Review: Richard Gere in ‘Arbitrage’ 2012-09-13T21:28:56Z Victor LaValle’s tender and monstrous modern fairy tale “The Changeling” could be a book for you, but you’d have to overcome your antipathy toward literary representations of New York City, the book’s setting. Dear Match Book: I’m Seeking Satirical, Semifantastical and Stand-Out Literary Fiction 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Middleton's ascendency to royal bride was lauded as a kind of real-world fairy tale. A decade after William and Kate's royal wedding, the "anyone can be a princess" fantasy is shattered 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Well, now “Star Wars” is an official Disney fairy tale machine, as are the Marvel movies. The Year the Studios Get It Right 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Whatever fairy tale they felt like they had in the experiment or as the contestants say "the pods" disappears when the couple can't physically or emotionally connect when they meet each other in person. "Love Is Blind" hasn't really worked since the first season, so why are we still watching? 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z For every “Pan’s Labyrinth,” which mines archetypes and fairy tales to unearth the hidden truth of Spanish fascism, there is “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” which turns the Holocaust into maudlin kiddie-kitsch. ‘The Notebook (Le Grand Cahier),’ From Janos Szasz 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Like many fairy tales, this one really begins in the woods. ‘Petite Maman’ Review: Into the Woods 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Del Toro said studio executives heard his pitch about a fairy tale involving an amphibian god and a mute woman, told in the style of a thriller. Disney-bound Fox Searchlight takes top Oscar honor 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z It takes guts to write a fairy tale these days. Ann Patchett Spins a Modern Fairy Tale in Her Luminous New Novel 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z To celebrate the beloved fairy tale, this made-for-TV movie is part live action, part animation. What’s on TV This Week: Lots of Holiday Specials and ‘Yellowstone’ 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Her shoes always looked like something from a fairy tale. Perspective | Kate Spade’s aesthetic was the happy answer to fashion snobbery 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z The archetypes of fairy tales tend to stick out as sugary or silly in any environment other than their own. | 'Sleeping Beauty Wakes': A Fairy Tale, Updated Without Ambien 2011-05-23T21:11:06Z By tradition and technique, ballet is suited to the supernatural — to fairy tales and gothic nightmares alike. Review: An Innocent Abroad (Beware the Boss’s Bite) 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z While some were enthralled about the prospect of meeting the figures from a fairy tale, others weren't quite sure who Prince William and Catherine were when told of the impending visit. Prince William and Catherine to visit Skid Row 2011-07-05T22:46:04Z I read all the fairy tales as a young child, knew them so well that in kindergarten I was popular for telling them to other children. Francis Ford Coppola: By the Book 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z “You're living an actual fairy tale! Get ready to walk down the royal aisle in this exclusive American Princess costume,” the website description reads. Yandy creates sexy Meghan Markle-inspired wedding costume 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z “Once Upon a One More Time,” a new musical combining songs popularized by Britney Spears with a revisionist take on classic fairy tales, plans to open on Broadway next summer. Doing It Again: Spears Songs and Fairy Tale Characters, Now for Broadway 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Bruno Bettelheim claimed that “Cinderella” was the most popular fairy tale, so pardon my spoiler: Ella’s mother dies after some discreet coughing, time passes and Lily James takes over the role of the older Ella. Review: In ‘Cinderella,’ Disney Polishes Its Glass Slippers 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z But there I go, getting all fancy-academic about a production that asks first to be regarded as a compelling fairy tale, the kind that keeps you asking, “But what happens next?” Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ in an Enchanted Setting Along the Hudson River 2013-08-18T21:51:45Z They construct sets and assume roles like Banshee, Sorceress, Gargoyle, Bully and Beast, with costumes derived from fairy tale villains and monsters, among other sources. What Should Your Kid Read This Summer? Here Are Three to Start With 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z On the other hand, "Little Voice" is a heavy-handed fairy tale about a girl who retreats from her mother's smothering coarseness into the retro magic of her late father's record collection. Bold characters in 'Little Voice' need a little nuance 2012-03-23T20:43:04Z In other words, Emily lived the fairy tale and was now embarked on a happily ever after with Prince Charming. I’m saving myself for God: True stories from evangelical purity culture 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z One of the hardest parts of reconstructing the book for me was trying to remember that moment when I first Googled her case after I learned that it wasn't just a fairy tale. "We Keep the Dead Close" author Becky Cooper's on the ritualistic murder that shocked Harvard 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z “When you think of animation and female leads, you always go to the fairy tale tropes,” Hosoda said through a translator. For the Most Complex Heroines in Animation, Look to Japan 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Do those European fairy tales—the stories told by the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen, for example—differ much from any Chinese fairy tales Bella and her classmates might have grown up with? This Week in Fiction: Yiyun Li on Fairy Tales 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z There is a war in the American cinema right now, and it is not the one that is visible in the boring battle scenes of Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper’s jingoistic fairy tale. Civil war at the cineplex: “American Sniper,” “Selma” and the battle over American masculinity 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z It has the aura of a morbidly picturesque fairy tale, with Monaghan’s compact, sprightly and inexhaustible Richard bringing to mind one of the vengeful, quick-tempered gnomes common to such stories. Review: All the World’s a Grave in the Druid ‘Richard III’ 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z We love the idea of debuting this musical — filled with beloved fairy tale characters — at a theater dedicated to the exploration of classic stories reframed for modern audiences.” Britney Spears and . . . Shakespeare Theatre? Built on an unlikely coupling, a musical with her songs might be bound for Broadway. 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z It seems, in retrospect, almost inevitable that I would think of Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales. Review | How did all these books get into my house? There’s a method to what seems like madness. 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Zee’s life is no fairy tale, but there’s something moving about the way she lets Gentry live in his version of one. Review | In ‘The Reckless Oath We Made,’ an unlikely fairy tale unfolds in Kansas 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Little Red Riding Hood Family-friendly musical based on the classic fairy tale. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 5-12: 'The Magic Flute' and more 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The core of the fairy tale is all there — “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair” — but the story has been greatly expanded. Film: Disney Ties Lots of Hopes to Lots of Hair 2010-11-20T19:13:00Z A childhood without boundaries is delicious to contemplate but terrifying to actually confront, which is why it’s the conceit of so many children’s stories and the great theme of fairy tales. Escape from Childhood 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z I think what ends up happening is every fairy tale has to speak to something universal. What would today's fairy tale look like if you could "un-Disney-fy people's brains"? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z “I wanted a wild beauty, a magical fairy tale, and also for it to be liberating,” Ms. Burton said backstage. Hermès: Gentle End to Hectic Week 2014-03-05T18:19:30Z That she is ultimately rewarded is what marks her story as a fairy tale. The newest 'Cinderellas:' -- finding an unexpected virtue 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z I wrote this fairy tale collection in order. What would today's fairy tale look like if you could "un-Disney-fy people's brains"? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z It has the vibe of a fairy tale, and the fact that it is set in a cold, wintry land only adds to the desire to cozy up next to a fire to read it. Review | The best books to read by the fire: Let’s talk about our favorites in science fiction and fantasy 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z But she isn't delivering a lecture and doesn't quite want us to understand "Sleeping Beauty," which isn't actually based on a fairy tale but definitely has the compelling undertow of one. Cannes: A creepy, erotic retelling of "Sleeping Beauty" 2011-05-13T01:01:00Z But in the hands of Camilla Morton, fairy tales are taking a very fashionable twist. | Camilla Morton's Fairy Tale Memoirs 2011-02-01T18:25:03Z Then on Thursday, the Hollywood Reporter said that blue-eyed Stevens would play the Beast/Prince, who takes Belle captive in his castle in lieu of her father in the French fairy tale. Emma Watson confirms casting of Beast, Gaston in 'Beauty and the Beast' 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Much of the material in “Once and Forever” fulfills a reader’s expectations of fairy tales. Dark Fairy Tales From a Now-Vanished Agrarian Japan 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z “It is nightmare that turns into a fairy tale.” ‘Planet Earth II’: A Lizard’s Great Escape 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The story sounds like a grunge fairy tale and articulates Sevigny’s brand of removed cool. Chloë Sevigny at Forty 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z The puppets, including a worm named Ooey Gooey, performed classic fairy tales. St. Joseph’s is the June Class of KidsPost It's like a folk tale or fairy tale. Burton recalls his Batman as lighter Dark Knight 2012-07-13T15:47:46Z Their brown shingled house has the feel of a fairy tale cottage, nestled in an enchanted-looking woods. Dara Khosrowshahi, Dad of Silicon Valley 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Written as a self-proclaimed “fairy tale” in a punchy, inviting style, Mr. LaValle’s haunting tale weaves a mesmerizing web around fatherhood, racism, horrific anxieties and even “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Books to Breeze Through This Summer 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z However, Tena exploits the dark foreboding of the forest and eerie silence of the lake to great effect, building Julia's unease, as the action is interwoven with local fairy tale mythology. Finding love and anarchy at Helsinki film festival 2011-09-16T15:32:08Z Yet in its humor, its fairy tale origins and the characters’ rounded features, it plays more like a vintage Disney work, only nimbler and freer. ‘The King and the Mockingbird,’ From Paul Grimault 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z And did you know that the Brothers Grimm when not collecting fairy tales worked on a great etymological dictionary of the German language? ‘You Could Look It Up’: The world before and since Wikipedia 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Hints of that harmonic ambiguity can be heard in her whimsical “Fairytale Poem,” written in 1971 for a radio broadcast featuring a Czech fairy tale, “The Little Chalk.” Music Review: Schnittke-Inspired Focus! Concludes With Gubaidulina Work 2014-02-04T22:09:26Z Alice settles into a posh private school and befriends fellow misfit Ellery, one of the few people who knows about the rare book of fairy tales written decades ago by Alice’s grandmother. Review | A celebration of that famous pink hat and other best books for young readers 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z A prize-winning children’s book illustrator known for his richly textured images of Black life, fables and fairy tales in works ranging from “The Lion and the Mouse” to “The Sunday Outing.” Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Of course your relationship is like something out of a fairy tale or a Hollywood movie. Your wedding proposal doesn’t need to go viral 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z This combination — of silly slapstick and wry humor, of a children’s fairy tale and an adult office comedy — is at the series’s core. In ‘Monsters at Work,’ the Scary Part Is the New Business Model 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z And it deftly makes the audience complicit with this production’s creators in figuring out both “Into the Woods” and why the fairy tales that inspired it still haunt us. ‘Into the Woods,’ Stripped Down by Fiasco Theater 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z She had a middle-class upbringing in Surrey, and as a child regaled trees in her garden with fairy tales. Drama! Music! Financial Shenanigans! 2010-02-20T05:21:00Z Rankin, in particular, combined the sensibility of a postwar New York analysand with a strong appreciation of the release offered by fairy tales. In Praise of Rudolph 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Should we return to the original fairy tale, when Ariel has to murder the prince with a dagger or die terribly? ‘Up where they woke’: Fox News and others panic about “Little Mermaid” lyric changes 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z In this fairy tale, it all pays off handsomely later on. Review: ‘Powerhouse’ Recalls a Heyday of Matched Jaguars and Packaged Films 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z To prove he’s committed, he reads the little girls a fairy tale about a boy named Ben who magically pays two college tuitions on The Bachelor residuals. Awkward Hometown Dates Are the Last Hurdle on 'The Bachelor' 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Here’s a fairy tale for a partisan age. Review: ‘Conflict’ Reaches Across the Decades and the Aisle 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z This bio unfolds a bit like one of the fairy tales Carter shook to release its meaning. A Warm Biography of the Fantastical, Feminist Angela Carter 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Are we likely to see other fairy tales turn up as “Sleepy Hollow” plot lines? 'Sleepy Hollow' Recap: Following the Pied Piper To... 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z The difficulty, he thinks, stemmed from his desire to introduce a new shade to a fairy tale while honoring the story’s legacy. What Do ‘Candyman’ and ‘Peter Pan & Wendy’ Have in Common? A Director Explains. 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z Other shows like ABC's "Once Upon a Time" and Fox's "Sleepy Hollow" may use the trope of storytelling through twisted — or realistic — versions of fairy tales, but Kouf notes that there are distinct differences. The gray mood of Portland, Ore.: Like a character on 'Grimm' 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z For one team, nevertheless, the Olympics are turning into something of a fairy tale. Telfar Clemens Is Getting Into the Leggings Game 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z They move to her maternal grandparents’ apartment in Moscow, where her mother drifts through the rooms like a ghost and Katya’s life takes on the brutal contours of a fairy tale. A Romantic Comedy So Dark It Makes You Cry 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z When I was at school I remember reading Emily Dickinson's poetry and Russian fairy tales, funnily enough. Sophie Ellis-Bextor's eerie inspirations 2014-01-22T07:24:33Z He's let the fairy tale run out of its road. Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z In just over 200 pages, Hunt evokes countless stories embedded in the American consciousness, from Grimms’ fairy tales to Washington Irving’s creepy stories of the early 1800s. A Dark, Dark Take on Our Most Precious Fairy Tales 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z As it was George’s practice to read to the flock every day — pulp fiction, fairy tales, and a book on diseases of sheep — their first task is to discover what sort of story they’re in. Review | When these animals talk, listen: Audiobooks give voice to a cat, a horse, a sheep and others 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Cast history as fairy tale with politicians, European monarchs, jazz greats and voodoo masters as heroes and villains. Rowdy and Bawdy, New Orleans is a Party for Families Too 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z “It’s like reading a fairy tale book. I see the names of beauty schools and men’s clubs and taverns, and I think, ‘What does that place look like?’” How an Artist Learned About Freedom From ‘The Negro Motorist Green Book’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z It’s also a long standing trope in fairy tales and fantasy and horror stories. Scary Is How You Act, Not Look, Disability Advocates Tell Filmmakers 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z I’ve realized something about that tower I wanted to be rescued from; the fairy tale metaphor still works, but in reverse. Let us all praise loneliness 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Were you guys trying to write stuff that was as far as you could get from a standard kid’s fairy tale or bedtime story? Nick Offerman on his new show: “There’s no attempt to go with mainstream popular culture” 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z I mean it's a crazy thing to think of, for someone coming from Sweden even the word "Oscars" is a fairy tale word. The Carpetbagger: The Director's Big Challenge: Not Ruining a Cinderella Story 2013-01-31T15:00:40Z “When someone decides not to be the queen, and says, I’d rather go and be myself, it’s a big big decision, a fairy tale upside down,” Larrain told Deadline. Kristen Stewart to play Princess Diana in new movie 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z The big bad wolf is fed up of always being defeated by the three little pigs, so goes off in search of a new fairy tale to be part of. The great fairy tale mix up by Matthew Winner - review 2012-11-21T12:00:00Z Turtles swam with us in the pool, the water cold and unchlorinated under scum, colored the dim vegetative green of fairy tales before they’re Americanized. My Canada 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z A fairy tale, in its essence, is a story of reversal. Bringing Favorite Fairy Tales Up to Date 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z A mural-size triptych depicts Sinnapah Mary dressed as a bride, surrounded by spiky vegetation, her skin covered with images drawn from Hindu mythology, European fairy tales and local folklore. From the Wreckage of Caribbean Migration, a New Kind of Beauty 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z She was inspired to create a mountaintop fairy tale of their own after seeing sumptuous photos of the Provost ceremony on the blog Style Me Pretty. Field Notes: Eloping Does Not Mean What It Once Did 2012-03-23T18:12:34Z Between January and June, The Seattle Opera will tour in the schools “The Three Feathers,” a new production and an adaptation of a Grimms’ fairy tale. An opera about Steve Jobs is part of Seattle Opera’s 2018-19 season 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Two sea creature friends accidentally look at a moonbow and become human in this book that reads like a Scandinavian fairy tale. 8 Picture Books That Let Young Minds Wonder and Wander on Their Own 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z The museum has an interesting gift shop, where my daughter bought a bewitching flower-and-ribbon-adorned antler headdress that looks right out of a scary fairy tale. New Orleans’ offbeat charms are showcased in these off-the-beaten-path destinations 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Based on a Grimm fairy tale, with libretto by Arthur Yorinks, the story involves a woman who comes to fear and resent her stepson, arranging to kill and feed him to his father. Exploring the silliest and darkest sides of marriage at Wolf Trap Opera 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Once upon a time, most children learned the rules of heterosexual society in their first fairy tales: The prince must marry a princess. Perspective | For Banned Books Week, I read the country’s 10 most challenged books. The gay penguins did not corrupt me. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z The action romp inspired by the fairy tale debuted at No. 1 with $56.2 million. 'Snow White' takes crown with $56.2M debut weekend 2012-06-04T21:07:07Z I have always liked books of fairy tales from other countries. Why Olga Tokarczuk Likes to Read T.S. Eliot in Translation 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z I think there’s a subverted fairy tale there. Mona Awad on her sharp-voiced debut, '13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl' 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z “It’s beautifully written, equal parts historical fiction and fairy tale,” Doolittle said, “and I can’t recommend it highly enough.” Great reads for the armchair traveler 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The German author Günther Birkenfeld saw in the fairy tales the answer to "how the German people were able to perpetrate the atrocities of Belsen and Auschwitz". Grimm brothers' celebration awakens saga of fairy tale link to German culture 2012-12-19T16:23:30Z Anderson has unplugged this particular fairy tale from those questions, and if you're going to enjoy the ride you'll have to take the experience as it comes. Love and loss in "Asteroid City": Wes Anderson's intoxicating alien-invasion meta-movie 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z Most would trace this show’s lineage back to “The Bachelor,” since the Americans have bought the “love at first sight” fairy tale hook, line and sinker. Why "Temptation Island" is back and "90 Day Fiancé" is having a moment 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z The design is inspired by Grimm’s fairy tales, infusing the flamboyant lobby and 110 rooms and suites with bright colors and strange characters. A Berlin Hotel Inspiring Grimm’s Fairy Tale Dreams 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Spielberg, a consummate showman and fluent storyteller, was steeped in the middlebrow movie grammar he grew up with, reimagining those reassuringly familiar structures to create the fairy tales and myths of a new generation. Perspective | The Stevens — Soderbergh and Spielberg — defined late-20th-century film. Can they agree on its 21st-century future? 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” is no fairy tale. From ‘The Lion King’ to Angelina Jolie, Chiwetel Ejiofor Has a Lot to Talk About 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Open the doors, and you might be welcoming into a life-sized Barbie palace; a house in which every room is themed to evoke a fairy tale or a holiday, or a horror house. Smart Watch: Not all reality TV is trash! These unscripted shows are actually useful 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z This is not, however, the fairy tale as seen through the lens of “Wicked.” Spare Times for Children for April 4-10 2014-04-03T22:56:28Z Despite the cliche, it was like something out of a fairy tale, touched by magic and mystery and mushrooms. Hello, Dolly. A visitor finally gets to West Virginia’s ‘bit of Canada gone astray.’ 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z That’s the title of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale that inspired Peck. New York City Ballet injects incredible zing into new Peck ballet and other works 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z She wrote poems, fairy tales, romances and dark, sensational thrillers. The Ending of This Louisa May Alcott Story May Disappoint You 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Henrik Ibsen’s fairy tale of man’s search for self — plus trolls — arrives in a new, modern-day adaptation from the existentially oriented playwright Will Eno. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Often incorporating female protagonists, she wrote erotic Gothic chillers for adults and modern myths for children, and she reinterpreted fairy tales with even more frightful twists. Tanith Lee, Fantasy and Horror Novelist, Dies at 67 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z AFT: American Folklore Theatre and Americans for Fair Taxation: Both are for people who like to talk about fairy tales. Style Invitational Week 1075: Falsity is Job One — write some fake auto trivia A musical Grimm fairy tale will be performed in a park in Kassel July 18 to Aug. 18. In Transit Blog: Calendar: Coming Events in Germany and Norway 2013-07-12T17:00:59Z While he was writing the book, Weitz was working on a project based on another classic fairy tale: the screenplay of "Cinderella" for Disney. Chris Weitz talks about his YA novel, 'The Young World' 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z I also read Nany Madore’s “Enchanted: Erotic Bedtime Stories,” which were naughty versions of fairy tales, and I found those arousing. Bigfoot, sexy? Erotica author explains 2014-01-23T00:00:00Z She seems whisked into a fairy tale of European acclaim. It Took Me 40 Years to Watch the Movie ‘Diva.’ It Was Worth the Wait. 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z With its family secrets, dark and enchanted forest and resourceful children, “The Witch’s Boy” echoes the spirit and tone of old Grimm’s fairy tales. Review: ‘The Witch’s Boy,’ by Kelly Barnhill Four teams display a twisted version of a fairy tale; one team is eliminated. 'Pan Am' is a TV pick for Sunday, Oct. 9 2011-10-05T22:50:08Z The plot is, of course, predictable; that’s part of a fairy tale’s fun. Review: ‘The Sorceress’ Casts a Charming Spell in Yiddish 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z But his rags-to-rich path with its hard work, perseverance and bourgeois education, proves far more complicated and finally more shattering than most upward-mobility fairy tales. ‘Martin Eden’ Review: Reading and Writing His Way Out of the Pit 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z In her own words, Anna "wildly exaggerates" the stories she's collected, creating narratives that are entertaining, surprising and often moving – like modern day fairy tales. Kneehigh theatre and the art of the app 2013-05-17T10:37:09Z If the new art is any indication, the remake hews closely to the animated original based on the classic French fairy tale. New Live-Action 'Beauty and the Beast' Photos Reveal Lumière, Cogsworth 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z “They used words like ‘magical,’ ‘fairy tale,’ ‘enchantment’ — wonderful words,” he said, “but they missed that political edge.” It Took Nearly 30 Years. Is America Ready for Ben Okri Now? 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z SA: Taking one step at a time is vital, because our popular culture is lousy with fairy tales of overnight transformation: paupers who ascend to the penthouse in the space of one Hollywood montage. How to Fulfill Your Dreams When the Magic-Wand Fairy is Late 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z "It’s almost like being in a fairy tale." Glamorous de Gourney Wallpaper with Historic Roots 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Still, it's surprising even for such an omnivorous thinker to devote nearly 300 pages, with footnotes, endnotes and appendixes, to a fairy tale. How a Smithsonian researcher reinterpreted Rumpelstiltskin for the #MeToo era 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z The show is called “Chita: A Legendary Celebration,” but Rivera jokes: “I’m getting closer and closer to a fairy tale.” Chita Rivera Plans to ‘Sweat’ for Her Birthday 2013-09-20T16:33:06Z They took on classic stories like “Heidi” and “Rip van Winkle,” along with nonfiction about rayon and wool that is now obscure, and Queen Marie of Romania’s fairy tale starring a magic doll. Antiques: Newark Museum to Exhibit Hercules Mosaic Panel 2012-10-04T20:53:59Z Hurricanes of All Time An exhibit devoted to art inspired by beloved fairy tales will open at Chicago’s Gallery 27 on September 1st. Painting Pop Culture: Why Artists Are Turning to Star Wars, and Fairy Tales, for Inspiration (Gallery) 2012-08-30T15:00:53Z Our reviewer, Marlene Zuk, praised the book, writing, “It is the backdrop to a story that is part science, part Russian fairy tale and part spy thriller.” New in Paperback: ‘Jerusalem,’ ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Interestingly they didn’t need to be fairy tales. Why Olga Tokarczuk Likes to Read T.S. Eliot in Translation 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z "No fairy tale" she says "was ever so wonderful", and her detailed description does indeed enchant. Diana Athill: the book that inspired Danny Boyle's Olympics vision 2012-10-12T21:54:01Z If you ever suspect you are in a fairy tale you must reject your most pathetic self. Rumpelstiltskin Redux 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z We know the formula of the fairy tale: There is often a youth, sometimes a journey and always a touch of the fantastical to convey a moral or theme. Review: ‘Gnit’ Seeks Itself in a Mist of Magic and Mischief 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z Anyone who knows fairy tales will be prepared to absorb the politics and societal commentary driving these eight episodes; that’s not the issue. "Carnival Row": Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne's fairy tale is fractured by competing narratives 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z By way of contrast, the company's revival of Puccini's "Turandot" represents a triumph of the traditional, taking a fairy tale of ancient China on its own terms and bringing it to life through dazzling stagecraft. Modern 'Figaro,' timeless 'Turandot' in Sydney 2012-03-11T05:02:10Z End your wine trail in Volkach, where Gothic half-timbered and Baroque pastel buildings create a fairy tale scene with help from a soundtrack of chirping songbirds. Oktoberfest means wine in Franconia, the enchanting German region you don’t know yet 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z Able to make out only the faintest shapes in the surrounded trees, I was convinced that I’d stumbled into an eerie fairy tale. 88 Temples, 750 Miles, Untold Gifts: Japan’s Shikoku Pilgrimage 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z There is such a sweetness to Sälen, like you have been transported into a snowy, benevolent Swedish fairy tale. Waffles, Gentle Slopes and Cloudberries Everywhere: Skiing in Sälen, Sweden 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z The fairy tale at its center obeys the long tradition of such stories and begins with the death of a mother: Earth. My Favorite Summer Blockbuster 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z There is no psychology in a fairy tale. Books of The Times: ‘Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm,’ by Philip Pullman 2012-12-17T22:41:07Z Shelves showcase rare editions, fairy tales, gardening volumes, coffee-table tomes and even vintage comic books. Social isolation (and video chat) is bringing renewed attention to the art of the bookshelf 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z In the Hungarian fairy tale production, he played the princess and I played the tambourine while he danced. A gay boy discovers his inner Faye Dunaway 2011-04-22T21:01:00Z In one song, a woman whose “face was a fairy tale” bites into a poison apple, which destroys her. Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips on the Band’s New Left Turn 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z We also adore Harry's mother Diana more than Charles and the rest of the brood, especially after she shattered the fairy tale illusion surrounding Buckingham Palace. Meeting "Harry & Meghan": the Sussexes launch the next stage of their strategic charm offensive 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z And, yet, there's a crucial group whose contributions, either within the late-1940s landscape "Hollywood" is set in or in Murphy's revisionist fairy tale, aren't acknowledged: the disabled. Why does Ryan Murphy’s "Hollywood" ignore disabled actors in its narrative? 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z When I first heard the story, it was told to me like an academic fairy tale. "We Keep the Dead Close" author Becky Cooper's on the ritualistic murder that shocked Harvard 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Of the top 10 highest-grossing movies at the US box office in 2015 so far, six are sequels and three more are based on pre-existing comic books, novels or fairy tales. Worrying future for Tomorrowland as it tops US box office with weak $40.7m 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Together, subject and viewer leap into a fairy tale, a place where parents and children want for nothing. Letting go of Michael Jackson: "Leaving Neverland" wakes us from a false dream 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z "It felt relevant for today, a modern fairy tale for now," Marshall, 54, said, referring to the film's theme of community and no one being alone. 'Into the Woods' goes darkly beyond happy ever after 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Against a background of a historic London guild hall — all wood paneling and ancient crests — the designer defined the collection as a “disco Jacobean fairy tale.” Fashion Review: Sarah Burton Shows McQ, the Alexander McQueen Second Line 2012-02-21T18:19:33Z The movie was inspired by the writings of the psychologist Bruno Bettelheim, whose most famous work, “The Uses of Enchantment,” analyzed fairy tales from a Freudian perspective. Review: In ‘Girl Asleep,’ Floating Through a Teenage Fantasia 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Wright’s parents operated a puppet theater in London, and he grew up on Grimm and Andersen fairy tales. Finding an Original Heroine 2011-04-02T03:13:01Z Though the endings might seem like a fairy tale, and the men definitely had the money and position, the women held the power — and the star roles. 'Sound of Music,' 'Pretty Woman' heroines so similar, yet so different 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z “The kings, the queens, the castles, the jewelry and glamorous parties. It’s like a fairy tale,” said Werner, describing what fascinates her about all things royal. Superfan's glimpse of UK royals leads to trans-Atlantic pilgrimage 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Bettelheim claims that few children’s books achieve these lofty goals—with the exception of fairy tales. The “Goosebumps” Conundrum: What Makes a Children’s Book Good? 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Groff bestows the tales of threatened kids with the surreal sheen of fairy tales. Review | New stories from Lauren Groff, who wrote President Obama’s favorite novel in 2015 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z But now, eight years into the evolving project, he said: “It’s not a fairy tale anymore. It’s true.” On a Swedish Island, a Wilderness Tamed 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Many operas in the standard repertoire are based on fairy tales and fantasy. A Queer Revolutionary Classic Book, Now Onstage With Music 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Photograph: Stapleton Collection/Corbis This beautifully titled novel is, I suppose, a fairy tale, since there are fairies in it, or, anyhow, beings called fairies. Among Others by Jo Walton – review 2013-03-30T10:01:01Z But rather than make “a fairy tale,” Mr. Lee said, it was more logical to him to apply this technology to “a realistic drama — I think that’s a more likely experiment, so to speak.” The Real Message in Ang Lee’s Latest? ‘It’s Just Good to Look At’ 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Or a contrived fairy tale apropos only of itself? Oscar Spotlight: The Screenplays 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Save these fairy tales for after your kids go to bed. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘One Mississippi’ and ‘Son of Zorn’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Jennie Bond, a leading British monarchy expert and royal wedding consultant for The Associated Press, called it a "fairy tale." History in the making: Kate, William are wed 2011-04-29T11:43:13Z “My mom said: ‘A fairy tale is just a story, but princesses are real. Field Notes: The Royal Wedding : Tossing the Royal Bouquet, One Generation to the Next 2011-04-22T19:35:15Z Inevitably, the rise of a new royal generation refreshes the image of monarchy — just as it did in 1981 when a beautiful young Diana married into the family, before the fairy tale imploded. Queen’s Diamonds Play a Role in the Diamond Jubilee 2012-05-28T12:05:12Z The whole thing is unfolding like a fairy tale, in the sense that Paris is the epicenter of fencing in the world. Ibtihaj Muhammad: The Olympic Fencer Is Charting Her Own Path 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z “For a famous sex symbol who has turned a tragedy into a fairy tale, Turner is charmingly down to earth,” our reviewer, Evelyn McDonnell, wrote. New in Paperback: Rebecca Traister’s ‘Good and Mad’ and Tina Turner’s ‘My Love Story’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z In “The Visit,” an amusingly grim fairy tale, floorboards creak, doors squeak and lights lower and sometimes shriek to black. Review: ‘The Visit’ Is ‘Hansel and Gretel’ With Less Candy and More Camcorders 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z You can tell by the title that this is not your traditional fairy tale. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z This nightmare enemy of all mankind, they decided, was a fairy tale. ‘Game of Thrones’ Does Not Say What Donald Trump Thinks It Does 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z But with "Reality" he switches gears, creating a modern day fairy tale whose protagonist's soul is slowly and inexorably eroded by the lure of fame. Reality TV, celebrity obsession hit Cannes screens 2012-05-18T11:27:19Z He’s identified as the poet, and the story unspools as an entwining of Andersen’s life with his famous fairy tale. Hamburg Ballet’s ‘Little Mermaid’ — adrift in a sea of despair 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Trapped inside the steel bars of the fairy tale, which doesn’t exactly feel like book writer Terrence McNally’s fault, most of the score feels drawn from well-worn templates for cardboard characters. Perspective | If you’ve seen one princess fairy tale, you know what to expect with ‘Anastasia’ 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z We all dream of a fairy tale, so in that respect, it’s exhilarating. "Fifty Shades of Grey"'s Eloise Mumford: I Would Never Sign on to a Film That Didn't Empower Women 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z It shadows Ms. Trump’s own American fairy tale. Melania Trump’s Speech May Not Have Been Original, but Her Dress Was 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z The dark fantasy is based on the well-known fairy tale -- only in this version, the wolf is a werewolf. "Battle Los Angeles" winning box office war 2011-03-11T03:19:24Z Why leave a fairy tale just the way it is? Review: Les Ballets de Monte Carlo’s Rendition of ‘Cinderella’ 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z The fairy tale image surrounding the wedding at Windsor Castle faded quickly. Meghan’s racism claims come as no surprise to Black Britons 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z In his mind we are meant to be and, oh, what a beautiful fairy tale he can build around her and their perfect love. I was arrested for harassment, and that was the good part 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Otherwise, it's pretty faithful to the original, which is to say that there's not much there other than a wispy and frequently drunken fairy tale. Wisps of charm don't quite justify 'Arthur' reincarnation 2011-04-07T19:16:58Z This multimedia-rich show, which runs at the Bond Street Theater in Brooklyn, takes its inspiration from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, mixing opera, circus, dance, projection and live performance. ?A Christmas Carol? and Other Holiday Shows, in Many Permutations 2011-12-08T22:06:39Z Thus begins the transformation that is both fairy tale and sharp social commentary. A well-spoken, well-dressed 'Pygmalion' 2011-08-25T18:19:05Z He also assured the actress that she and Hardwicke would be the perfect pair to build and expand upon on the fairy tale, which is now a coming-of-age story with supernatural elements. Amanda Seyfried scared by "Red Riding Hood" 2011-03-10T23:55:31Z "Then you add on top of that Disney launching a contemporary telling of fairy tales.... You also get an exponential brand. One plus one equals three." Record-breaking 'Into the Woods' is a surprise hit 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z It's like, Anderson said, Indigenous populations are like a fairy tale to some people, and are presented as such in mainstream markets. ESPN's "30 for 30" challenges the fetishization and appropriation of the barefoot ultramarathon 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z For instance, Louis XIV grew up in the 17th century hearing fairy tales and also acted in spectacles and operas that were performed at court ... Now it can be (re)told 2011-08-20T14:01:00Z Last week's No. 1 film, Disney's animated fairy tale "Brave" about a strong-headed Scottish princess, dropped to third place with $34 million in domestic theaters. Foul-mouthed "Ted" takes movie box office crown 2012-07-01T15:56:20Z In fairy tales we associate heroic action with courage and self-fulfilment, not self-destruction. "The Banshees of Inisherin": Competing concepts of justice wage war in McDonagh’s Irish tragicomedy 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z But as a fairy tale jampacked with action, romance, comedy, tragedy, drama, music, dancing and Western pizazz, it's a painless entree to the archetypal Bollywood style. 'Kites': a star-crossed love story, Bollywood style 2010-05-20T20:10:00Z His other, more rollicking, mad-dog memories of his parents don’t sound anything like fairy tales. Books of The Times: Sad and True Love Story, Worthy of Its Soundtrack 2011-01-12T22:25:13Z Yet a new in-depth New York Times feature by Gina Kolata reveals just how bad the metabolic tyranny of rapid weight loss diets can be — even as the fairy tale of extreme transformation endures. “The Biggest Loser” is a broken fairy tale: Our reality TV obsession with radical transformation needs limits 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z This is, of course, a fairy tale, and potentially a rather sleazy one. ‘Fading Gigolo’: Charmer borrows Woody Allen formula 2014-05-08T19:40:00Z The stark black and white lends some of the photos a Grimm’s fairy tale quality, with a haunted undertow that appeals to girls. ?A Very Young Dancer? and the Life That Followed 2011-11-17T12:00:00Z Narrated by two alternating voices, a child’s and his father’s, Bourdeaut’s oddball fairy tale about a family in thrall to the mother’s mental illness starts as a manic romp, hilarious until overtaken by tragedy. New French Fiction: With an Emphasis on Food, Film and Frolics 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Now the venue is offering patrons a 40-minute outdoor walk inspired by fairy tales. ‘Why Are We Stuck?’ Stage Actors Challenge Their Union Over Safety 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Wearing a red hooded parka, Ms. Atkins stars in a kind of prairie fairy tale involving musical wolves and bears with golden teeth. Art Review: ‘Oh, Canada’ Exhibition at Mass MoCA 2012-08-30T21:44:01Z And Nick is haunted by the Grimm fairy tales that his daughter reads because his own life is full of latter-day versions of them. Books of The Times: Of Home Fires Burning, Or Burning Up Homes 2011-01-10T20:47:21Z Instead, to keep things at least somewhat within the spirit of the traditional German fairy tale, we listened to Edgar Allan Poe audiobook stories in the car. On a Family Road Trip Through Germany: Fairy Tales, Castles and Cuckoo Clocks 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Maggart, an Algonquin regular, is 36, but the feeling she projected was the dreamy, inchoate longing of a 12-year-old girl poring over a book of fairy tales. Music Review: She?s Young, Restless and a Bit Dreamy 2011-02-20T22:54:19Z "Sleeping Beauty," the elegantly creepy debut film from Australian novelist Julia Leigh, is no fairy tale; it's designed to leave audiences uncomfortable. 'Sleeping Beauty': Once upon a twisted time 2011-12-08T21:40:04Z Inspired by a statue of Lenin near his home, he scribbled a fairy tale called “Lenin and His Magical Goose.” A Wayward Son Checks in With Mother Russia 2010-10-24T23:06:00Z Disney's Beauty and the Beast 3D Theatricals stages the hit musical based on the animated 1991 film inspired by the classic fairy tale. L.A. theater openings, Jan. 31-Feb. 7: 'The Mountaintop' and more 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Adapted from Oscar Wilde’s haunting fairy tale, the show is sure to resonate: Its storytelling actors portray vagrants confronting a border wall. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z In fact, if you listen closely, a wartime rendering of the fairy tale is all but foretold in Prokofiev’s music. Review | This dark, stunning ‘Cinderella’ has chain-smoking stepsisters and an AWOL fairy godmother 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z With his leather vest and flowing hair, he’s a punk Prince Charming; but fairy tales often crash into reality, and a woodland glade bears little resemblance to a filthy mattress on the floor. Review: In ‘I Believe in Unicorns,’ a Princess Meets Her Punk Prince Charming 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The writers make the most of their understanding that that the fairy tale they're peddling is utterly ridiculous, but no more than any romantic fable about princes finding love among the peasantry. "Coming 2 America" takes the crown, delivering a sequel worthy of & less patriarchal than the first 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z We are, after all, in the world here of federal fairy tales. Review | Despite top-notch cast and crew, ‘Dave’ dissolves into camp by second act 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z “It’s a little bit of The Avengers,” said Disney distribution chief Dave Hollis, making a wishful analogy to the studio’s all-time top grossing movie, “in its use of popular fairy tale characters.” REVIEW: 'Into the Woods': A Disney Musical for Adults of All Ages 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z Humperdinck’s fairy tale with darkness at its heart returns in a holiday version, sung in English and performed in the Richard Jones production. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Doris has brought Susan up to be practical and is ardently against anyone filling her daughter's head full of "legends, myths, or fairy tales." "Miracle on 34th Street" reminds us that home ownership was once an elusive dream for many Americans 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z Taruskin, a ferocious critic of the fairy tales we tell ourselves about the autonomy of art, would be the last to argue that we should ignore the context to which Furtwängler belonged. The Disquieting Power of Wilhelm Furtwängler, Hitler’s Court Conductor 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z It is, rather, an inky, unhinged fairy tale, a swirl of intuitions and sensations visited upon and realized through the body of its star, Natalie Portman. The Oscars: Natalie Portman Embraces Monster and Victim 2010-12-31T20:48:10Z Once upon a time Hanna had a mother who looked like Kate Moss and gave her a big book of Grimm's fairy tales. In Hanna, Saoirse Ronan and Cate Blanchett Put a Feminine Twist on the Bourne Formula 2011-04-07T09:20:00Z But when he arrives, the forces of fairy tales gang up on him. Music Review: Reimagining Wagner’s ‘Meistersinger’ at Salzburg Festival 2013-08-05T21:45:01Z I thought it was some Taliban fairy tale. Shooting raises questions about war's course 2012-03-12T05:00:00Z To its director, the Danish filmmaker Andreas Koefoed, it’s also a kind of dark fairy tale, complete with a prince and a lost treasure. ‘Lost Leonardo’ unpeels the mysteries of the Salvator Mundi 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z The play’s more farfetched rom-com elements are ultimately redeemed by the revelation of feelings too messy even for fairy tales. Comedy, and sex, in the cancer ward? 'A Funny Thing Happened' goes there with glee 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Djinn is a captive to whoever releases him from the bottle; he’s a fictional creation, and this is a fairy tale. ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ Review: Desire, Once Upon a Time 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Do not expect the upbeat Disney version of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, nor a typical ballet treatment with virtuoso dancing. Hamburg Ballet’s ‘Little Mermaid’ — adrift in a sea of despair 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z And some are not, like the Pixies’ “Monkey Gone to Heaven,” with its verses declaimed like a fairy tale by Brock Lynch. Music Review: Young@Heart Chorus Sings at St. Ann?s Warehouse 2010-04-26T22:55:00Z A pastiche of a half-dozen Perrault and Brothers Grimm fairy tales, “Into the Woods” debuted at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego in 1986 and on Broadway the following year. ‘Into the Woods’ Review: Do You Believe in Magic? 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z She joined the Disney fairy tale business with 1991's animated hit "Beauty and the Beast" after a lot of work in episodic TV. Angelina Jolie is wickedly good in the not-quite-classic 'Maleficent' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Assuming there's a fandom crossover between Disney fairy tales and that spy game, that meant lots of narrow-minded folks stayed mad. Racist attacks on a Black girl earning a supposedly "white" role isn't about canon but excellence 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Audiences can be counted on to see a remake of a venerable hit, rather than some work of startling originality, the way children demand to hear a favorite fairy tale the hundredth time. A Total Recall Remake: Why? 2012-08-02T16:52:27Z The purportedly objective “psycho tests” prompted controllers “to agree or disagree with statements like, ‘I admire the beauty of a fairy tale more than that of a well-made gun.’ The Cost of Defying the President 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Around the world, though, a new generation of girls, not yet jaded, will be transfixed by the real-life fairy tale. Motherlode: One Lucky Prince 2011-04-28T15:30:39Z From childhood, we steep ourselves in fairy tales, of Hansel and Gretel escaping the witch’s oven, of Jack avoiding the fate of becoming the giant’s bread. 10,000 germ species per human 2012-06-13T17:20:00Z How do we stay engaged in this journey, which won’t always be roses and fairy tales. Saving the Drama for the Courtroom 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z One would devote the next few months to playing a villain in a panto, an exaggerated, live form of a fairy tale that has been popular in Britain since the 1700s. A theater-lover’s introduction to London’s multiplicity of stages 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z It is a strange fairy tale, oddly sad because it is so far from the composers’ reality. From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Every good fairy tale has a dark side. The opera about Walt Disney, and how Long Beach landed the U.S. premiere of 'The Perfect American' 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Displayed under spotlights in an otherwise dark section of the museum’s second floor, the garments seemed like free-floating, dreamlike creatures from a very odd fairy tale. Anything goes in ‘World of WearableArt’ exhibit at EMP 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Despite Hollywood's uneven track record sprucing up fairy tales for contemporary audiences, the trend doesn't seem to be in danger of dying out anytime soon. 'Maleficent': How does the fairy-tale update stack up? 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z “I always said I would tell no fairy tales with her; she does the things that children do. The death of a relative is just another normal childhood experience.” Dick Bruna, illustrator who delighted young readers with Miffy the white rabbit, dies at 89 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z “This work shows so beautifully how colorful life is. It makes young people believe that – no matter who you are – there is a fairy tale waiting for you that is your life,” Reintke wrote. Hungarian LGBT activist among Time’s 100 most influential 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z And in many classic fairy tales, ogres and Bluebeards are undone by the cleverness and courage of young protagonists. A Scheherazade for Our Times 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z It's more than reality, it's a fairy tale world, so we can work with narratives that are not directly part of our everyday life. "What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?" director counters a curse using cinema as "modern magic" 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z But it’s still an original experience: part fairy tale and part gritty contemporary police drama. The 10 biggest movie surprises of 2018, from Melissa McCarthy to ‘Mowgli’ 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z It's crazy how the system will, I can almost say, they write a fairy tale, almost, about you. Alice Marie Johnson: "I was supposed to draw my last dying breath in prison" 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z Brilliant casting, of course, gripping stories, to be sure, stunning creativity, absolutely — all work to make these New Age fairy tales for grown-ups appealing for their entertainment value alone. From 'Maleficent' to 'Game of Thrones,' a magical time for adults 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Even if your own life is far from a fairy tale, “Opening Belle” will allow you to laugh, learn and maybe even lean in — to hug your own family a little closer. ‘Opening Belle’ review: A witty woman leans in on Wall Street 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z So we started from the woods, the fairy tale woods, the hidden woods. With ‘Rusalka,’ Will the Fourth Time Be the Charm for Mary Zimmerman? 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z David Bowie – Wild Eyed Boy from Freedcloud Proper fairy tale behaviour here with twirly wind instruments, the odd dash of harp and a mountain with eyes. Readers recommend: songs with special guests 2010-10-14T23:01:00Z Songs like “Love in Real Life” are steeped in the bittersweetness of new beginnings, of growth, of differentiating real life from the fairy tale. Beth Ditto finds her way — to Seattle and in life 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z The film is a “cheerfully chaotic jumble of fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters,” Stephen Holden wrote in his review for The New York Times. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Atlanta’ and ‘Black Panther’ 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z A clever, snappy novel suffused with comedy, proverbial wisdom and fairy tale. First novels: Catherine Taylor's roundup - reviews 2011-02-26T00:07:44Z It’s not what’s behind a curtain, but behind a screen, that counts most crucially in Synetic Theater’s graphically clever new adaptation of the 18th-century French fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast.” Theater review: Synetic Theater’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Nunez’s narrator folds incident, anecdote, history, rumor — even fairy tales — into a plaintive litany. Review | Sigrid Nunez’s ‘What Are You Going Through’ is an ambitious novel about the meaning of life and death 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Ullens’s death was a sordid end to a life that had seemed like a fairy tale, or at least a fairy tale of the age of global capitalism. Myriam Ullens, Philanthropic Baroness With a Disputed Fortune, Dies at 70 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Being alone—in the long-term sense—felt like a fairy tale curse, a condition from which I might need to be rescued. Let us all praise loneliness 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z In January, an image of Copenhagen's famous statue of the Little Mermaid, a century-old bronze inspired by the children's fairy tale, was removed from a Danish politician's Facebook feed for running afoul of community standards. Social media have become a vital tool for artists — but are they good for art? 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Entertainment Weekly has more: It’s Pixar Animation Studio’s first fairy tale fantasy, and it marks yet another change of pace for the venerable dream factory. Disney’s healthy choice 2012-06-05T20:00:00Z Marriage isn’t that fairy tale, happily ever after, meeting a prince or princess — marriage is not like that. Rev. Roxy Is Serious About Marriages and Helping Make Them Work 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Richard Jones’s deliciously dark production, which returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday, doesn’t tone down the less savory aspects of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale that inspired it. | 'Hansel and Gretel': At the Met, an Opera That Serves Children 2009-12-17T06:03:00Z The role also didn’t to relegate Jolie to the classic fairy tale template. These 8 Actresses Proved Women Can Carry A Summer Blockbuster 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z LaValle’s “The Changeling” is a horrifying fairy tale about the maze of parenthood, shrouded by the shadows of our own upbringing. Talking to Victor LaValle about 'The Changeling' and the horror of parenthood, H.P. Lovecraft and more 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Last year “The Artist,” a silent Hollywood fairy tale, danced to a best picture Oscar in a nostalgic awards season. Fall Films Tackle Tough, Politically Tinged Subjects 2012-07-31T18:07:17Z He opens with a joke about being from a Catholic family, “raised off fairy tales and bullsh--.” After all, his mother needed something to keep all her kids in line. For these vets, making people laugh is the best medicine 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z In neo-Brechtian style, with frolicsome interludes of song and tap dance, ethical questions are merrily kicked around amid a freaky fairy tale set in a fantasy kingdom populated by rich vulgarians. Theater Review: ‘Stop Hitting Yourself,’ a Riff on Excess, at Lincoln Center 2014-01-28T03:00:01Z The dark fairy tale “Maleficent” earned the top spot in its opening weekend. Top-grossing films for May 30-June 1 The student-run theater company at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons was preparing for its production of this Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine riff on classic children’s fairy tales. Scalpel, Sponge, Magic Beans: When Doctors Moonlight as Actors 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Pixar's Scottish fairy tale Brave fell two places to number three. Swearing bear tops US box office 2012-07-02T09:02:17Z Bella was a member of the English club in high school, in which the students staged plays, often based on fairy tales. This Week in Fiction: Yiyun Li on Fairy Tales 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z It’s well known for different film versions, and it’s basically a collection of fairy tales from Japan. Q&A: ‘The Red Turtle’ director talks about making his first feature film 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z And I remember getting really irritated in my 20s, around the time when those books on psychological interpretations of fairy tales started coming out. Neil Gaiman Follows the Guiding Light of Instinct 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Like a princess in a fairy tale, Marnie moves in stardust and traffics in mystery. Review: ‘When Marnie Was There,’ by Studio Ghibli, Animates a Friendship With Ominous Undertones 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Then, as in a fairy tale, the kingdom fell silent for many years. It’s 1988 and Philip Marlowe Is Retired. But Not for Long. 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z The interpersonal plot swells to take on the reach of a fairy tale, where the ogre that needs embracing or slaying is as much within as without. "The Banshees of Inisherin": Competing concepts of justice wage war in McDonagh’s Irish tragicomedy 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z “At the time I was reading fairy tales to them, so I was really living in that world,” she said. Annie Leibovitz, the Un-Fashion Photographer 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z “Now it’s time to live our fairy tale.” Vows: Sunny Jacobs and Peter Pringle - Vows 2011-11-18T22:07:48Z The Harry Potter author said Tuesday that she wrote the fairy tale for her children more than a decade ago. J.K. Rowling wants kids to illustrate her new book, ‘The Ickabog’ 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z In “The Sleeping Beauty,” Catherine Breillat’s wily and witty retelling of the fairy tale, the enchanted princess doesn’t just fall into a 100-year slumber, she also hits the road, walking and riding into adventure. | 'The Sleeping Beauty': No Sleep for a Beauty Who Seeks Adventure 2011-07-07T22:47:11Z Of course, like most fairy tales about granted wishes, this is a "be careful what you wish for" scenario. "Hall Pass": Suburban dads gone wild! 2011-02-24T23:01:00Z That’s the appeal of movies like this, which at a minimum understand that some of us hunger for fairy tales, even those that promise the stars and deliver Channing Tatum mooning. ‘The Lost City’ Review: Raiders of the 1980s Blockbusters 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z For some, she also wrote the text; for many others, she retold well-loved folk and fairy tales, sometimes translating them from the original French. Marcia Brown, 96, Dies; Book Illustrator Won Three Caldecott Medals 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z An early taste for fairy tales as a child led to an interest in Shakespeare and Homer. Go ahead, believe in romance: It will make you a happier, more committed partner 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z All the same, Mr. Nilsson’s hallmarks abound: Beds of forest moss, modest wooden spoons, and whimsical dishware suggest a woodsy fairy tale. A Destination Restaurant in Remote Sweden Gets a Pop-Up Pairing 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z In fairy tales, the princess tends to win when challenged. Ask Amy: Regular customer’s senior moment makes cashier a him. 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z This prominent New York journalist blanketed the nation with fairy tales of corrupt, incompetent, lazy Black Republican politicians. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z An undeveloped barrier island off the coast of Maryland and Virginia, Assateague is a fairy tale of sand beaches, salt marshes and celebrated wild horses. Can you plan a 2017 vacation with a 40-year-old travel guide? 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z “This is not a fairy tale,” the narrator tells us. A Zombie Novel for Our Virus-Stricken Times 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Russian audiences flocked to see him in fairy tales, romantic films and a 1972 cowboy movie called “The Headless Horseman,” which sold a reported 300 million tickets. Oleg Vidov, the ‘Soviet Robert Redford,’ Dies at 73 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z On Friday, the 25-year-old embodies the little girl with the red hood and cloak in a film version, "Red Riding Hood," of the famous fairy tale. Amanda Seyfried scared by "Red Riding Hood" 2011-03-10T23:55:31Z Trung Le Nguyen delivered a sparkling debut with his graphic novel “The Magic Fish,” about the child of Vietnamese immigrants who teaches through fairy tales — yet wrestles with how to come out to his family. 2020 graphic novels and comic books: Five trends that defined the year 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z His couture fairy tales included red fox sleeves, a black and white “magpie” outfit and a whole flora and fauna of decorative effects. Special Report: Fashion: Givenchy: Pure Is Beautiful 2011-07-05T17:12:09Z Now an annual Guggenheim tradition, Prokofiev’s classic fairy tale score is dramatized in a brisk half-hour performance narrated by the fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, who also directs and is responsible for the costumes. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z I wanted the exhibition to unfold like a fairy tale, a Brothers Grimm fairly team. Retrospective highlights Alexander McQueen's career 2011-05-04T11:21:00Z Child abuse cuts a jagged scar through Morrison’s novel, a brisk modern-day fairy tale with shades of the Brothers Grimm, and a blunt moral: What you do to children matters. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z In modern fairy tales, there really are happy endings. Secrets, Lies and a Murder (or Three) in the Latest Y.A. Crossover Novels 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z To get people to vote the way you want, Pavlovsky says, “you need to build a fairy tale that will be common to all of them.” How the War Against Truth Went Global 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z I think usually in fairy tales you have women going through hell and high water to get their happily ever after. 'Into the Woods': Emily Blunt on Singing for Stephen Sondheim 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Your work also draws on fairy tales and Norse mythology and a number of other culturally relevant origin stories. Melissa de La Cruz loves fairy tales so much she'll turn them inside out 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z “Our customer tends to be the bride that wants the ball gown and the fairy tale.” When It Comes to a Veil, Brides Can Take It or Leave It 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z The title story is a fairy tale about patriotism. Review | In Matthew Baker’s ‘Why Visit America,’ the U.S. is an absurd place, but also full of hope 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z Meyer recasts the fairy tale “Rumpelstiltskin” as a dark fantasy in which “the miller’s daughter” finally gets a name and the power that comes with it. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2021 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z She read me old European fairy tales — Hans Christian Andersen, the uncandied Brothers Grimm. Maria Popova: By the Book 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z And a few weeks later, they called and said, ‘Could you make this go with a folk tale or a fairy tale?’ Post-Minimalism and Folk Ballads Fuel a Composer 2011-02-01T22:00:25Z The Americans won the gold medal in Lake Placid, N.Y., in a fairy tale known as the Miracle on Ice. 'Red Army' explores Russia's soul through Olympic hockey, Slava Fetisov 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The story — a kind of grotesque fairy tale — takes place in the walled Republic of Urbs-Ludus, whose citizens adore giant hotels and “fantastical coiffure.” A sneak peek at ‘P---y,’ the soon-to-be published novel about Donald Trump 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Walking from room to room in his perfect house, he seemed somewhat like a man in a fairy tale, lost in beauty, hiding behind windows in a secret garden. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z Every step of the way, however, it will be tragedy, instead of good-versus-evil fairy tale. Alicent Hightower of "House of the Dragon" is the Karen of Westeros 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z It may be pure wish fulfillment, but this fairy tale of a film is as irresistible as the Dior dress Mrs. Harris covets. Lesley Manville is endearing in "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris," a feel-good couture fairy tale 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Korean fairy tales can trend macabre; a few skew more grisly than even the Brothers Grimm. In ‘Once Upon a (korean) Time,’ Bedtime Stories to Keep You Up at Night 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z But it’s also about the ambiguities that cartoon fairy tales can’t handle, about death and the tendency of loved ones, as the Sondheim song goes, to “leave you, halfway through the wood.” ‘Into the Woods’ aims for fairy-tale end 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z The author evokes his life in the shadow of his looming father as if he were telling a sinister fairy tale. Review: In ‘Stories I Tell Myself,’ Life as Hunter S. Thompson’s Son 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Even movies derived from Grimm’s fairy tales feel like comic-book films. The Superhero Franchise: Where Traditional Movie Stardom Goes to Die 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Called the “hope” of ballet, the dancer-turned-choreographer transported the fairy tale from the dreamy realm of misty castles in faraway places and times into the here and now. 'Cinderella' Sets: No Place for Pumpkins 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z “It’s like no other fairy tale I have ever heard of,” Mr. Lee’s father, Yu-Ching Lee, said. A Real-Life Fairy Tale That Crossed the Sea of Japan 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Their sound is influenced by groups like Placebo and Muse, while their lyrics tell fairy tales. May's best music from across the MAP 2012-05-18T15:52:05Z Though you're in a fairy tale, it's very much real emotions and real life and real pain and real sorrow and real evil. 'Once Upon a Time': Victoria Smurfit wants to be friends with Cruella De Vil 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Poems by a Seattle-based author who uses art, music, fairy tales and the domestic life as her subject. Northwest authors on rare plants, mysterious crimes and the Barefoot Bandit 2011-03-28T21:15:04Z The 18th-century fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast” has inspired many adaptations, with this Japanese film counting among the finest — and certainly among the most emotional. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z In a way, the movie was a hippie fairy tale. Lost Culture on Found Film 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z For more absurd details about his fairy tale ceremony and reception at Big Sur, consult this article in Vanity Fair. ‘Silicon Valley’ Season 3 Finale: An Empire Built on Quicksand 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Once #MeToo hit, Rand says, he couldn’t help but see parallels between fairy tale and real life. How a Smithsonian researcher reinterpreted Rumpelstiltskin for the #MeToo era 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Nightingale,” this theatrical revival offers far more wildlife than the bird of the title. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z And it’s too easy to dismiss concerns by saying the opera is just a fairy tale, or that Zeffirelli’s production is just an over-the-top costume epic that shouldn’t be taken too seriously. Review: The Met’s ‘Turandot,’ Strongly Sung, Garishly Staged 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Ms. Austin put less of a fairy tale spin on getting engaged to the prince. The Best Wedding-Proposal Stories in 2017 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z “This is not some kind of fairy tale,” the Duchess huffs, slapping Wally. Madonna's W.E.: The Woman She Loves 2011-12-08T22:43:59Z Like a fairy tale, the novel takes a winding road and doesn’t rush to a finish. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z She recalled a conversation with the queen the day before — which she acknowledged is strange to say — in which she was told that her life is a fairy tale. The Met Opera’s Newest Star Returns, on the Small Screen 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z A lifelong lover of fairy tales, Mr. del Toro recalled a Brothers Grimm story about a king who offered his daughter’s hand in marriage to anyone who could hold her attention. For ‘Trollhunters,’ Guillermo del Toro Found Inspiration in the Sewers 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z In just 72 minutes, Sciamma composes a spare but enormously rich fairy tale about an 8-year-old girl who, in a time of grief, meets another girl mysteriously similar to her in the woods. ‘Lost Daughter,’ ‘Licorice Pizza’ top AP’s best 2021 films 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z "Cinder" is the first of a quartet of books, all based on fairy tales. New books for all ages 2012-06-23T02:25:57Z The result is a dark fairy tale woven through with scraps of legends and folk tales, an urban nightmare haunted by the shades of murdered women and children. ‘Tigers Are Not Afraid’ Review: Stolen Childhoods, Creative Minds 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z I’d too often felt misled by the Swedish Academy, as if I were Hansel in the fairy tale, toward the well-appointed houses of glum mediocrities who wished to eat my high spirits alive. ‘Shake It Up’ Aims to Put Rock Writing in the Pantheon 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Enjoy, if you must, Rob Marshall’s overblown 2014 adaptation of this fairy tale concatenation. Stream These 7 Productions That Celebrate Stephen Sondheim’s Work 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z In her first couture show, the Russian designer drew inspiration from the history and fairy tales of her native country and also its history of crafts. A Collection from Couture Winter 2012 in Paris 2012-07-04T17:29:10Z Suzu continues to travel between reality and U as the story evolves and takes a detour into a fairy tale. ‘Belle’ Review: Soaring and Singing Over the Online Rainbow 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z The same ambivalence infuses the ever-surprising sentences that fall from her mouth like jewels and toads in a fairy tale. Review: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Gives New York a Fabulous ‘Fleabag’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z He has now created 13 characters and written and illustrated 150 titles, including ones with fairy tale, travel and holiday themes. These Books Stand the (Silly, Messy, Topsy-Turvy) Test of Time 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z This cheeky fairy tale is of Rob Reiner's best films: endlessly quotable and as clever and hilarious as ever. 5 bad-ass movie princesses 2013-02-28T23:41:14Z From fairy tales to historical fiction, here are some of the books Salon is most looking forward to in 2023. 22 books we're looking forward to in 2023 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Lem also became known for a certain kind of techno fairy tale, some of which were collected in 1964 as “Fables for Robots.” The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z After all, these anecdotes aren’t just classical, they’re classic, as much a part of our culture as Grimm fairy tales or stories from the Bible. Forget ‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go!’ A more creative book-gift for a new graduate. 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Careening in tone from fairy tale to social satire to grim, confessional emails, these stories center on wounded devotees of intimacy. Love’s Perils, Trauma’s Wounds: New Story Collections 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z The Princess and the Frog Storybook Theatre presents a family-friendly musical based on the classic fairy tale. L.A. theater openings, Jan. 29-Feb. 5: Alan Cumming, Bernadette Peters and more 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z I don't think it's a coincidence that I've ended up delving into the myths of different cultures to create my own fairy tales. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z I loved fairy tales and reading about adventures in far away lands.” Ann McGovern, author of ‘Stone Soup’ and other children’s books, dies at 85 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z An original musical production of the classic fairy tale features 11 new songs, with a cast led by the famed English actor Jim Dale. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Paul McCartney to ‘Puss in Boots’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z In the world of modern fairy tales, you’d know which love story you were supposed to root for. Perspective | King Charles III and Camilla got what they wanted long ago 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z In her previous series, Ms. Frank interpreted the original Grimms’ fairy tales. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z This spin on many favorite fairy tales is great fun, if a bit confusing. Sunday TV Picks: 'Once Upon a Time' on ABC 2012-11-07T23:13:05Z From the start Ms. Hardwicke tries to make the case that this isn’t your granny’s favorite fairy tale. | 'Red Riding Hood': The Girl Who Sighed Wolf 2011-03-10T22:26:20Z Yet, in another twist on the traditional fairy tale, the villains of “Little Nothing” are vanquished without much effort. Marisa Silver’s ‘Little Nothing’: A story of magical transformation 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The script is part mystery, part fairy tale, part biography. 'Flight of the Butterflies': A must-see 3-D IMAX journey 2012-10-19T19:25:04Z Of course, this being a fairy tale, she wants to enter that room, where she finds the bloodied corpses of her husband’s past wives. Music Review: ‘Bluebeard,’ by 33 1/3 Collective, at 3LD Art & Technology Center 2013-01-12T00:55:45Z A fairy tale, an act of collective creation and, as Third Rail describes it, “an offering, for dark nights,” “Return the Moon” begins in the most mundane place imaginable: a Zoom waiting room. Review: In ‘Return the Moon,’ Theater Between Phases 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z The Brothers Grimm fairy tales are especially grim, but our kids loved them as well. Instilling great reading habits in children 2010-09-21T20:46:00Z Life isn’t a fairy tale where ugly people are bad and beautiful people are virtuous. “Too handsome” to be a rapist? 2014-03-21T19:12:00Z “Little Red Riding Hood,” said Antonio Marras backstage, following that name with a list of artists, poets and writers who focused on wolves and their fictional, scary variations in fairy tales. Fashion Review: Antonio Marras: Howling at the Moon 2014-02-24T18:40:34Z For ages 4-8: This fairy tale retelling curses the princess to sleep for a “long, long time” after choking on a salmon bone. New Emma Lord mystery, fairy tales and a book of poetry 2014-03-24T19:27:29Z This classic fairy tale may not seem like an obvious choice to adapt as an opera; the main characters are not creatures known for their melodious vocalizations. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z During his first time on the stand, Depp characterized Heard as the "perfect partner" ... as though he is describing a fairy tale rather than an authentic account of an in fact very real relationship. With the Depp-Heard trial, courtroom television's exploitative tricks reached new misogynist heights 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z So that’s the kind of fairy tale this is going to be. This New York Love Story Subverts Its ‘Happily Ever After’ 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Unless you buy “The Concert’s” nonsensical premise — the film was written by Mr. Mihaileanu, Alan-Michel Blanc and Matthew Robbins — appreciation of this satirical fairy tale is next to impossible. | 'The Concert': Radu Mihaileanu?s Comedy Focuses on Zany Orchestra 2010-07-29T21:15:00Z This modern fairy tale — which has since been spun into a full blown franchise with its own Broadway musical — stars Mike Myers as the voice of the title ogre. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Lovecraft Country’ and the Billboard Music Awards 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z “The Changeling,” it should be noted, is a particular kind of fairy tale: “the old kind,” in the words of the omniscient narrator, “when such stories were meant for adults, not kids.” This New York Love Story Subverts Its ‘Happily Ever After’ 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Nearly 23 million U.S. viewers across 11 networks tuned in to gawk over the fairy tale spectacle. British are ready to rule U.S. TV sets this summer 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The 2006 fairy tale, which began as the director’s bedtime story for his daughters, lost Warner Bros. millions and was savaged by critics. Twenty years after ‘The Sixth Sense,’ M. Night Shyamalan hasn’t given up on twist endings 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The possibility that Elizabeth could have been a shrewd and ruthless political player in her own right — a Machiavellian prince rather than a cursed fairy tale princess — is ruled out. ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ Review: Sexy, Spirited and Almost Convincing 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Series based on classic fairy tales, like “Once Upon a Time” on ABC, offer independent, empowered Snow Whites. Critic?s Notebook: ?Fifty Shades of Grey?: S-and-M Cinderella 2012-04-02T21:58:46Z And, praise the gods of Broadway, Rachel Bay Jones’s tenderly frolicsome, fairy tale performance as Catherine has only deepened with time. ‘Pippin,’ Almost a Year and a Half Old, and Cheerier 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Rendered in a calligraphic style with a watercolor palette, this fairy tale from Mr. Takahata has a large reputation, though it’s more simple than profound and, at 2 hours, 17 minutes, overly long. Ranking the Films of Studio Ghibli 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z With the hand-drawn "Princess and the Frog" and the digital "Tangled," Disney tried to breathe new life into its classic tradition of adapting fairy tales. Can "Winnie the Pooh" save Disney from Pixar? 2011-07-13T01:05:00Z And that’s sort of what it was, it was the fairy tale version of what his life was like on paper. “No one can live with this much pain and anger, it’s gonna kill me”: Throwing Muses’ Kristin Hersh on Vic Chesnutt’s suicide, PTSD and why songwriters are “pretty broken” 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z The fractured fairy tale has returned with 3-D graphics, more polished animation and less wit. Capsule reviews: `Fast Five,' `Prom' 2011-04-27T13:28:09Z For this is a fairy tale of twinning. ‘The Listener,’ by Rachel Basch 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z He takes his small-town audiences “to far places and strange peoples. Into mythic forms of thought and the structures of fairy tales.” Can a 10-year-old girl ever recover from years in captivity? 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z The actor Steve Martin's view across Central Park was "so iconic, so fairy tale" that Pericoli decided not to include it. New York City views 2010-07-31T23:04:00Z “It would have been quite depressing if all the invited artists and contributors had chosen fairy tales and children stories,” Mr. Cattelan said by email. The New Museum Is Offering Strange Stories for Trying Times 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z The response, Bennetts said, proved the “incredible persistence of our sort of fairy tale fantasies that are as simple-minded as those of a typical rom-com.” America has a collective weakness, and his name is Brad Pitt 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Religion already has enough of the fairy tale aspect. Where Is God on the Small Screen? 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Although the movie is an animated fairy tale, it is not what you would see marketed to children on these shores, and not just because it is in French with English subtitles. Spare Times for Children for July 26-Aug. 1 2013-07-25T23:01:05Z And so I wanted a fairy tale to be about that, to be about difference. What would today's fairy tale look like if you could "un-Disney-fy people's brains"? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Even though the movie looks less like a warning than a fairy tale. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Everybody was looking twinkly, like in a fairy tale. Unforgettable Moments 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Herheim’s production takes an opera usually valued for its lush escapism and returns to it the surreal darkness, the true enchantment, of a fairy tale. Music Review: Stefan Herheim?s ?Rusalka,? at Th??tre Royal de la Monnaie 2012-03-09T23:41:56Z And if that is the case, it really will be better than any fairy tale ever imagined. Prince Harry Finally Takes On White Privilege: His Own 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z A thick mist settled and the watery scene morphed into something from a fairy tale. On the Water, and Into the Wild 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z The “Harry Potter” author said Tuesday she wrote the fairy tale for her children as a bedtime story over a decade ago. JK Rowling publishes first chapters of new story online 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z In a way, the story is almost a fairy tale: this man was a mess in his previous life and now has a chance to start fresh. George Saunders on the Induced Bafflement of Fiction 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z You grow up with the Disney versions of the fairy tales, and the Disney versions are completely wrong. What would today's fairy tale look like if you could "un-Disney-fy people's brains"? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z It’s an example — fairly diverting, but never entirely satisfying — of another currently popular television genre: the fairy tale of aggrieved American manhood, even though in this case the bitter hero is a heroine. ‘Reprisal’ Review: A Femme Fatale on the Midnight Train to Revenge 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z “It’s the whole romantic Cinderella fairy tale that makes this wedding so much fun,” Mrs. Hall said. Field Notes: The Royal Wedding : Tossing the Royal Bouquet, One Generation to the Next 2011-04-22T19:35:15Z It’s especially true at the two extremes: the yin of long, lavish hair, the kind described in Western myth, the Bible, fairy tales; and the yang of the shaved head. What’s the Big Deal About a Woman Being Bald? 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z He said he had to see the film like a "fairy tale" - one in which he had to ignore all his knowledge of the slave trade and its repercussions. In '12 Years a Slave,' all eyes on actor Chiwetel Ejiofor 2013-10-17T15:23:36Z By reaching back to Perrault it’s as if she were examining the Rosetta stone, using fairy tales to decrypt the language of happily ever after. | 'The Sleeping Beauty': No Sleep for a Beauty Who Seeks Adventure 2011-07-07T22:47:11Z Rumpelstiltskin is a pint-sized, black magic dealmaker who strikes a bargain with Shrek that gives him control of the fairy tale world they inhabit. "Shrek" gives fairy tale break to backroom artist 2010-05-21T18:30:00Z The two new movies were backed by a deep bench, with Pixar Animation's Disney fairy tale "Brave" holding up well at No. 3 with $34 million in its second weekend. 'Ted' outstrips 'Mike' in big box-office weekend 2012-07-02T02:31:05Z Perhaps most surprising, though, is the novel’s sudden arrival at a fairy tale ending. Review | Donald Trump has made feminist dystopias great again 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z "These are very new ideas in the realm of fairy tales." 'Strange Magic' casts animated spell with pop tunes and fairies 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z It’s ironic these days that a fairy-tale ending is thought to be a happy ending, when most fairy tales are very, very dark. Finding an Original Heroine 2011-04-02T03:13:01Z Cartoons, like fairy tales, often require death as a plot device, but they want it slightly defanged. From Concerts to Cartoons: Chopin’s Most Famous Composition 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z The effect is that of a contemporary fairy tale, marked by symbols and misdirections. Emily Carroll has produced a stunner of a comic in Frontier 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z This book is not a mere whodunit: It’s a philosophical fairy tale about life and death that’s been trying to spill its secrets. One by One, Her Neighbors Are Dying. An Elderly Polish Woman Is on the Case. 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z “It also did one great move, which is, the traditional villain of a fairy tale is now going to be the hero.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Lovecraft Country’ and the Billboard Music Awards 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Inside, visitors meet Belle and use props to help recreate the fairy tale. Inside Disney’s New Fantasyland 2012-12-21T16:55:27Z In the 1990s, when Western journalists and diplomats first happened upon the museum, it seemed like the beginning of an art-world fairy tale. ?Decadent? Russian Art, Still Under the Boot?s Shadow 2011-03-07T23:09:00Z The secluded forest was like a fairy tale — except for the 27 mosquito bites and twig scratches that marked our bodies. Motherlode Blog: Fertility Diary: Pincushion 2013-09-10T13:54:46Z “Bad Cinderella,” a revisionist riff on the classic fairy tale, will close on June 4, bringing to an end, at least for the time being, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 43-year-long streak of shows on Broadway. ‘Bad Cinderella’ Had a Not Good Run on Broadway. It Will Close June 4. 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z The crossover wasn’t a strategy rooted in the complex mythology of the fairy tale show, but another instance of one brand leveraging another. Why the Simpsons-Family Guy crossover works and others fail 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Josie’s illness — like the life-threatening ailments in fairy tales — is never diagnosed, but it’s the source of the home’s ever-rising alarm. Review | In Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Klara and the Sun,’ a robot tries to make sense of humanity 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z And yes, the fairy tale set to music by Engelbert Humperdinck is bound to please kids, even if the singers and the orchestra are sub-par - which they weren't this evening. Witch burns, audience on fire at Vienna opera show 2012-12-23T23:01:04Z Here, children weaned on fairy tales must finally abandon magical thinking. ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z In that moment, Feron’s career as a novelist begins, but she remains something of an artistic vampire — rewriting classic fairy tales and drawing on details from Meredith’s life. Review | Gail Godwin has been writing novels for 50 years. Her latest proves she has no intention of coasting. 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z The only thing that sells better than a fairy tale is a fairy tale gone wrong. Diana and the media: She used them, and they used her. Until the day she died. 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z As another exercise, Mr. Alfredson had his writers envision “Tinker, Tailor” as a fairy tale. Carpetbagger Blog: How Hard Is It to Adapt a Hit Book? Ask the Makers of 'Tinker, Tailor' 2011-12-01T15:57:47Z However, in Bella and her peers’ case—perhaps this is also the case of Chekhov’s young correspondent—a foreign fairy tale may carry a magic that offsets reality. This Week in Fiction: Yiyun Li on Fairy Tales 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Blending the supernatural with elements of the so-called giallo films that defined the early part of his career, Argento creates a phantasmagoric fairy tale that is equal parts beautiful and horrific. ‘Suspiria’: Stream the Original and 8 Other Italian Horror Classics 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The real victims aren’t the only secret in the plot, which combines fairy tale characters with a contemporary New York setting. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Reading the post at the time, it seemed unlikely that “Dream” — a fairy tale, right? — could have much in common with art rock of the 1980s. Critic?s Notebook: Where Opera Is Stretched Yet Unbroken 2011-07-05T21:30:26Z This raises the question of what kinds of fairy tales we want the next generation to take as their own. What’s next for Britney Spears fans? A Shakespeare Theatre musical that may be headed to Broadway. 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z The name Edéenne evoked for her, she said, an enchanted universe of childhood memories and fairy tales, the sources of inspiration for her designs. Special Report: Jewelry: Jewelry That Sparkles With Stories and Gems 2011-05-12T13:49:21Z If it’s a bit of a fairy tale, so be it. Review: ‘Back Channel,’ by Stephen L. Carter Henry James named it “a florid fairy tale.” Fiasco Theater Company Rides Shakespeare to Success 2011-09-02T19:00:54Z His new one is a meandering but often entertaining fairy tale, in which a hapless man called Lucy Minor goes to work for the major-domo of a castle. Review: Novels by Alexandra Kleeman, Edward St. Aubyn and More 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Aging hasn't been a favorite topic in an industry devoted to fabrication and fairy tales. Will Hollywood grow up for boomers? 2010-08-02T19:34:00Z For “Into the Woods,” a mashup of fairy tales in which the happy ending is only the midpoint, after which the plot turns bleaker, the music ruled the design process. Clothes and Character: Colleen Atwood on 'Into the Woods' and 'Big Eyes' 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Still, that spooky ride was in the spirit of fairy tales as they are in books, before they are Disneyfied. Inside Disney’s New Fantasyland 2012-12-21T16:55:27Z It’s the simple reason “Second Act,” her first film in three years and her long-awaited return to the glossy, modern-day fairy tale, exists. With ‘Second Act,’ Jennifer Lopez makes her own opportunity 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z The evening turned out to be less feminist than fairy tale. A Feminist Romance, but Not a Radical One 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The Disney movie musical “Enchanted” made charming, hilarious sport of the disjunction between the conventions of classic fairy tales and the prickly realities of the urban landscape. | 'Sleeping Beauty Wakes': A Fairy Tale, Updated Without Ambien 2011-05-23T21:11:06Z Degenerate Art Ensemble's "Red Shoes": DAE's latest extravaganza is a movable dance-and-music show adapted from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale about a girl who dances herself to death. You can watch dance this weekend til you drop 2011-05-10T00:53:04Z It would be comforting to think that talent conquers all, but it would also be a fairy tale. A Designer’s Suicide and the Clothes He Left Behind 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z And Diana's reinvention in Spencer cultivates a space for the international community to gossip once again about the "people's princess" whose fairy tale turned sour. "Spencer": how Diana became the popular culture princess 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z “I am a fan of opera, and I loved the fairy tale,” she said. In Venice, Capturing the Brio of Festivities Past 2013-04-23T05:49:12Z I really thought I was going to write fairy tales. Tracey Baptiste scares up new audiences to learn about jumbies 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z It’s worth noting that few people in these stories are cackling villains in the fairy tale sense. Review: ‘A Wild Swan,’ Michael Cunningham’s Scabrous Antidote to Happily Ever After 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z And when you use a mounted iPad to create a fairy tale or to sample Hans Christian Andersen, you realize that you are using a technology that may already be displacing these hallowed artifacts. Exhibition Review: Public Library’s ‘ABC of It’ Looks at Children’s Books 2013-06-20T22:19:09Z Just get the Disney fairy tales out of their heads. What would today's fairy tale look like if you could "un-Disney-fy people's brains"? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z “It at once paid tribute to the fairy tale and deconstructed it,” Mr. Myers said in an interview with The New York Times. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Lovecraft Country’ and the Billboard Music Awards 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Carter hated seeing these stories described as “retellings” of well-known fairy tales, because as far as she was concerned she was dismantling them. Fairy tales, fantasy and dangerous female desire: Celebrating Angela Carter, the literary link between Bros. Grimm and “50 Shades” 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z When I've asked why, they've implied that their interest in beauty, shopping, a fairy tale wedding or white picket fence was antithetical to the women's movement. How feminists are catching up to Barbie: She's everything – and has always been subversive 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z Hollywood persists, nonetheless, in clinging to the fairy tale. Laura Wasser, She Who Will Cleave the Union of Kim and Kanye 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z A Queens hypebeast falls for a Manhattan rich girl in “Sneakerella,” the latest rehashed fairy tale to be foisted upon audiences. ‘Sneakerella’ Review: Beauty and the Hypebeast 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z After seeing that her peers, several of whom told her they would be president someday, were taking classes on "fairy tales and 'The Matrix,'" the actress lightened up and shifted her perspective. Natalie Portman addresses Harvard grads; reflects on 'Black Swan,' insecurities 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z A charming old house, Allenbrook looked like something out of a fairy tale, hidden behind sheets of ivy, gardens misted in fog. Slow Travel: Walking in Wales 2013-05-24T17:03:36Z Fresh from her success on Strictly Come Dancing, pop star Sophie Ellis-Bextor is releasing an album influenced by Eastern European fairy tales. Sophie Ellis-Bextor's eerie inspirations 2014-01-22T07:24:33Z She devoured tales of survival, including “Watership Down,” “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” and fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm. Paula McLain Wrote a Thriller — and This Time, It’s Personal 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z She floated from one side to the next, using every piece of it to narrate her own fairy tale. Esperanza Spalding, effortlessly reaching new heights at 9:30 Club 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z And though “Ancient Lives” sort of follows the format of Grimm’s fairy tales, don’t expect to find Rapunzel and Cinderella and their respective princes in residence. Tina Satter’s ‘Ancient Lives’ Is at the Kitchen 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Certainly this goofily amusing screen fairy tale includes bloodshed, but it’s generally tamer than its often-gruesome source. | 'Red Riding Hood': The Girl Who Sighed Wolf 2011-03-10T22:26:20Z Leduc follows the bread crumbs back into her original experience with fairy tales — and then explores their residual effects. Review | In ‘Disfigured,’ a writer explores the damaging ways fairy tales shape our view of the world — and ourselves 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The story of the Princess and the Pea is exactly what it is: a fairy tale. Feminism 1, Gene 0 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Holden in The Times criticizing All Together, Boston reviewer Allen Stone dismissed Madden’s work as “a fairy tale for old people—an anodyne against the cruel reality.” Can old age still have a happy ending? 2013-02-07T23:17:00Z Wow, flushed faces at parties leaned in to ask, what was it like growing up with adults so hooked on fairy tales? Religion ruined my childhood 2014-02-16T00:00:00Z Photograph: Classic Image/Alamy Once upon a time two German brothers began collecting the best fairy tales of their age. Grimm brothers' celebration awakens saga of fairy tale link to German culture 2012-12-19T16:23:30Z Unlike in a fairy tale, there was no magical ending to the Soong saga. The Famous, Feuding Siblings Who Helped Shape Modern China 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z “All these stories of my mother and father, they were just fairy tales to me,” he said. The Saga of a World War II Ancestor of Miss Piggy, Bert and Yoda 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Still, their masterpieces, minor but well worth rediscovering, remain these lightly comic and quietly touching fairy tales for the disenchanted. Review | For the disenchanted: two lightly comic and quietly touching tales of magic 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z The boundaries between human civilization and the animal kingdom become very blurry indeed in “Grimly Handsome,” an appropriately titled grim fairy tale from Santa Monica’s longtime purveyor of psychically unsettling theater, City Garage. The Red Riding Hood fable as serial killer drama? That's 'Grimly Handsome' 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Comparative mythology fans will catch some trusty tropes: the questing hero, à la Joseph Campbell; the fairy tale rule of threes; the Yggdrasil-esque universal tree. ‘Son of the White Mare’ Review: Vibrant Myths From Hungary 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z That said, having gotten famous singing about fairy tales and crushes, she wary of growing up too fast, because “there’s always gonna be an eight-year-old in the front row. Always.” 22 Things You Learn Hanging Out With Taylor Swift 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z This is very much "a fairy tale," as Morgan Freeman narrates. 'Born to be Wild 3D': cute, playful and full of critters 2011-04-07T20:49:21Z Her insecurity matures this sequel from fairy tale to talk therapy. ‘To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You’ Review: Bliss, for Now 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z It hasn't all been like a fairy tale, though. In the age of superheroes, 'Cinderella' conquers with kindness 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z There’s a point in Ezekiel’s fairy tale trappings, I think, about how fear turns people into children. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 2: Greetings from the Kingdom 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Now the pair’s primary residence, the house also functions as a year-round bed-and-breakfast, and its lovely grounds provide the fairy tale campus — reminiscent of Tolkien’s hobbit Shire — for Maynard’s popular summer gardening courses. | A Fairy Tale Retreat in Wales 2013-05-24T13:37:14Z Demanding wide emotional range and kaleidoscopic movement that veers between flowing liquidity and spiky brittleness, Mr. Neumeier’s approach to “The Little Mermaid” plummets to the pitiless depths of Andersen’s watery fairy tale. Arts: Taking a ?Little Mermaid? to Dark New Depths 2010-03-20T00:33:00Z With enough remove, the grisliest of crimes takes on the aura of cautionary fairy tale, as is the case of Elizabeth Short. Ted Bundy, "I Am the Night" and our secret obsession with psychos 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Like a fairy tale heroine, Zoé is drawn into a wild and dangerous adventure that tests her resourcefulness and rewards her sound moral instincts. Movie Review: ‘A Cat in Paris,’ the Animated French Film 2012-05-31T21:54:24Z As grown women, we cannot buy into the fairy tales spun by extremist men. How I choose to celebrate Diwali as a feminist 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z Instead, falling snow, the bare branches of winter trees and Tchaikovsky’s soaring music started a fashion fairy tale. Fashion Review: Dolce & Gabbana Create a Fashion Fairytale 2014-02-23T18:36:19Z Forget about Rodgers and Hammerstein’s waltz; those magic slippers move to a Latin beat in this Spanish-flavored version of the fairy tale. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z “Do you dream of a fairy tale wedding?” The 8 most tabloid-y things Piers Morgan did as a CNN host 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Aided and abetted by Benjamin Kracun’s alluringly sensual cinematography, Mr. Pearce has created a feverish fairy tale riven with dark horrors and forbidden desires. Review: A Troubled Beauty and a Mysterious ‘Beast’ 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z These middle grade and picture books include a remix of familiar fairy tales, a dog gone missing, a 12-year-old’s move to Florida and two baby chicks orphaned by a dust storm. Newly Published, From Famous Manuscripts to a Bookstore in Egypt 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z At elementary age, fairy tales that may seem grim to parents actually work for kids because, Weissbourd says, “they’re trying to get some mastery over those really deep fears.” How to Talk to Your Kids About Scary News Events 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z “The Story of a Painter,” which appears in this week’s issue, is one in a series of modern fairy tales you’ve written. This Week in Fiction: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya on Poverty and Fairy Tales 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z She explains, "I didn't want it to be feeling sorry for myself, so that's why I wrote it kind of like a fairy tale." Mary-Louise Parker reveals shards of her past in 'Dear Mr. You' 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z A gritty, fact-based fairy tale set in working-class Lowell, Mass., "The Fighter" is quite effective as drama — that is, until it abruptly becomes an underdog sports movie in the final act. The Week Ahead: Christmas TV and stage shows are Seattle-area highlights 2010-12-15T23:52:13Z While the photographs are mostly prosaic — showing documents and buildings and more expressionless people — the accompanying texts are filled with stories of the fantastical mixed with the everyday, like fairy tales for the postmodern age. Art Review: Taryn Simon Exhibition at MoMA 2012-08-16T21:46:38Z Blunt, Streep and Depp star in Rob Marshall’s dark musical fairy tale, “Into the Woods,” due in theaters on Christmas Day. Blunt reveals new toughness in ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z One vivid character melts into another; we’re also shown the human charm of the storyteller herself, delighted to have shared this myth in which an adorable fairy tale turns into a demonstration of religious awe. An Odissi Dancer Contains Sublime Multitudes 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z “I was buying into this age-old fairy tale that at the end of the movie you end up with a guy.” How to be alone 2012-08-04T23:30:00Z A favorite among critics at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, this Georgian film from Alexandre Koberidze has been described as both a fairy tale and a city symphony. Winter Movies 2021: Here’s What’s Coming Soon to Streaming and Theaters 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Now on view in a handsome Spooky Action Theater production, directed by Helen R. Murray, Fréchette’s fable begins as a wry and suspenseful updating of the Bluebeard fairy tale. Review | Spooky Action Theatre’s ‘Small Room’ for patient fans of the offbeat 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z A narrator sets the scene for this improbable tale in the amused, worldly timbre of a young Ricardo Montalbán, and the series is shot in a bright candy-colored palette that suggests a modern fairy tale. ‘Jane the Virgin’ on CW and ‘Cristela’ on ABC 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z There may be few fairy tales, but there’s little real regret. Motherlode Blog: After the Opt-Out Revolution, Asking: How’s That Working for You? 2013-08-08T15:18:41Z Each guest will make five choices, from fairy tales to biographies and poetry, which illustrate aspects of their childhood, as well as crucial moments of their personal and professional lives. Anne Robinson softens style for BBC2's My Life in Books 2011-01-23T00:07:25Z Del Toro said studio executives heard his pitch about a fairy tale involving an amphibian god and a mute woman, told in the style of a thriller. Disney-bound Fox Searchlight takes top Oscar honor 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z The Red Shoes U.S. premiere of Matthew Bourne’s stage adaptation of the fantastical 1948 film, based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, about an ambitious dancer. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Sept. 17-24: 'Fixed,' 'The Red Shoes' and more 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z It’s a fairy tale that takes Los Angeles as the background. ArtsBeat: Cannes Q. and A.: Driving in a Noir L.A. 2011-05-22T18:41:11Z Patrick and Cody’s wedding story reads like the fairy tale they hoped it would be. The GOP wants to ban same-sex marriage. These newlyweds just want a traditional happily ever after. 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z After the war, he made stop-motion versions of fairy tales that prompted his idol, O'Brien, to hire him to help create the ape in "Mighty Joe Young," an achievement that won an Academy Award. Special effects master Ray Harryhausen dies at 92 2013-05-07T18:34:11Z Seemingly pulled from the pages of a fairy tale, Sophie confesses her love for Bee as they lie in a green meadow surrounded by nature. ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ and the Difficulty of Coping IRL 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z They were living on the outskirts of Rome at the time, and her stories felt like a fairy tale. Gucci’s star-studded fashion show shines bright in Hollywood 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z But Odyr, using a bright palette, has fully adapted what Orwell called “a fairy tale” satirizing Stalin — and the result is elegant and heartbreaking. The Graphic Novel Versions of Literary Classics Used to Seem Lowbrow. No More. 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z His latest book "Instructions," is a poem about how to survive a fairy tale. Newbery winner Gaiman gives readers `Instructions' 2010-04-25T20:46:00Z As she explains in the voice-over: “The whole matrimonial, maternal fairy tale” isn’t for her. Movie Review: ?A Little Bit of Heaven,? With Kate Hudson 2012-05-03T23:08:55Z Barnhill wasn’t a big reader or writer as a kid, but she loved to listen to her father read spooky fairy tales aloud. In new book, Kelly Barnhill finally gets her dragon 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Like Carter, but in her own way, Silver manages to transform the fairy tale without losing its power. Marisa Silver’s ‘Little Nothing’: A story of magical transformation 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Guy’s own childhood was like something from a fairy tale, though not the kind suffused with light. Rosa Guy, 89, Author of Forthright Novels for Young People 2012-06-07T04:23:10Z Again, I don’t believe in “should read,” but I think many would enjoy and savor the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen much better as adults. Sandra Cisneros Loves to Read About Women Waging Battle 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z A woman literally can’t stop dancing in the U.S. premiere of Matthew Bourne’s stage adaptation of the fantastical 1948 Powell and Pressburger film based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. All of the L.A. arts events and exhibitions to check out this fall 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z “Super Host” is set in a fairy tale of London, chock-a-block with meet-cutes and grocery store cashiers who offer to lend their copy of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to first-time customers. If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now — Sort Of 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z But it was Russian fairy tales that exerted the most lasting pull on Rimsky-Korsakov and inspired most of his operas. The Story of ‘the Most Underrated Composer in History’ 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z The directors see the film as “a bit of a modern-day fairy tale,” Ms. Lipsitz said. Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz Direct a Katy Perry Film 2012-06-29T20:39:34Z “Fables” suggests that the closing line of many fairy tales – “And they lived happily ever after” – may well be a lie. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: Janet Evanovich, 'Fables' and More 2010-12-03T18:19:00Z To Republicans it was a fairy tale; to the Democrats, a Terry fail. Style Invitational Week 1467: The Year in Redo, Part 1 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z "Grimm" Reimagines classic fairy tales as supernatural criminal activity happening all around us. NBC and Fox unveil trailers for new series 2011-05-17T12:01:00Z Watching Charlotte yearn for a fairy tale broke my heart open. Saved by Pop Culture: How "Sex and the City" helped me get over my marriage 2011-04-15T13:52:00Z It also offers Olivier Py’s “The Young Girl, the Devil and the Mill,” a theater piece based on the Grimm fairy tale “The Girl Without Hands.” 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z At first, “The Ickabog” seems like a conventional fairy tale, charming but slight. J.K. Rowling’s New Non-Potter Children’s Book 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z They also saw a project — a mix of feminist fable and romantic fairy tale — that could resonate with women, who drive Broadway sales. Sara Bareilles Takes Her Slice of Broadway With ‘Waitress’ 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z But “Geppetto,” a new production at Here, shares more than a character’s name and profession with that fairy tale. Spare Times for Children for June 21-27 2013-06-20T23:01:28Z “Escaped Alone” is a fairy tale of sorts, as were Ms. Churchill’s earlier “The Skriker” and “Faraway.” Review: In ‘Escaped Alone’ Fears Small (Cats) and Large (Apocalypse) 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z I love his fidelity to the fairy tale of the title. The Mystery of the Oscars: How Do You Really Vote for a Script? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z To make her a fairy tale princess, the series also insists on differentiating Catherine from the other women at court, representing her as a savvy It Girl, more beautiful and more powerful than her peers. Catherine Was Great. But Was She a Girl Boss? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z The bizarro world Shrek encounters - something like the sideways shifts of ABC's "Lost" - is a mishmash of mostly the familiar fairy tale characters, but with different twists of fate. First Look: New `Shrek' premieres at Tribeca 2010-04-22T06:38:00Z The story spun around her, though, is a fairy tale of tentative independence with every edge buffed smooth. Review: Boldly Going Toward Independence in ‘Please Stand By’ 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z He's good, too, on the poetry of name and place, frequently listing tongue-teasing villages, and thus following "the path of fairy tale in which the sound and music of words mattered more than their meaning". On the Road to Babadag by Andrzej Stasiuk ? review 2011-07-08T21:55:08Z “Younger” is a fairy tale, not about finding Prince Charming but about looking as young as Cinderella. Review: In TV Land’s ‘Younger,’ a Woman Cheats the Clock to Land a Job 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z “Once Upon a Time,” 12+, ABC Disney versions of classic fairy tale characters face challenges in Storybrooke, Maine, as well as in a parallel world filled with magic and mystery. 10 TV shows like “Game of Thrones” for teens 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z There are thousands of learned discussions of fairy tales but very few that approach them from the old wives' perspective, with the result that the obvious goes unnoticed. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z The calm, terrifying stories in “Thunderstruck” have the jittery emotional valence of fairy tales, where to name dangers — the wicked witch, the hungry wolf — is somehow to subdue them. The top 50 fiction books for 2014 This year’s theme, “Enchanting Fantasy,” includes a scene reminiscent of the Cinderella fairy tale, featuring a princess and her prince, a castle and a pumpkin carriage nearby. Drive-through light displays are a bright spot in toned-down holiday celebrations 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z The play isn’t the slightest bit coy about its fairy tale structure: It’s “Beauty and the Beast” reconfigured as a debate on American jurisprudence. Drama about Antonin Scalia plays out like 'Beauty and the Beast' 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z But his rambunctious approach doesn’t begin to convey the suave narrative assurance of Bulgakov, whose voice has the matter-of-fact seductiveness of fairy tales. Theater Review: ‘Master and Margarita’ Is Staged at Bard College 2013-07-19T19:48:20Z It’s a fairy tale of sorts, sure, but would it be too much to ask that anyone onstage behave like a recognizable human being? ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: In the Minority 2013-04-18T18:08:01Z The novel draws on classic fairy tales and East Asian folklore to create a brilliant story about a princess banished from her kingdom after failing to control the forbidden magic within her veins. 6 Y.A. Novels That Showcase the Power of Teenage Friendship 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z She considers various fairy tales, from “The Little Mermaid” to “The Ugly Duckling,” which she dubs “Hans Christian Andersen at his most Hans Christian Andersen.” Review | In ‘Disfigured,’ a writer explores the damaging ways fairy tales shape our view of the world — and ourselves 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Russian audiences flocked to see him in fairy tales, romantic films and a 1972 cowboy movie called “The Headless Horseman,” which sold a reported 300 million tickets. Oleg Vidov, popular Soviet actor who defected during Cold War, dies at 73 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z And I mean all kinds of narratives: classical epics and homey fairy tales, barroom ballads and chronicles of hopeless love, multigenerational family sagas and ghost stories with a body count. Review: A Thrilling ‘Ferryman’ Serves Up a Glorious Harvest Feast 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The bean is central to the fairy tale about Jack and the Beanstalk, but the histories of each variety tend to be fabulous themselves. The humble bean: Good for soups, great for the apocalypse 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Joplin was like the girl in the fairy tale who, every time she opens her mouth, out hops a toad. A New Biography of Janis Joplin Captures the Pain and Soul of an Adventurous Life 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Love requires more than fairy tales and Mom wasn't a princess. "Love, Linda": Reading my late mother's love letters to a man who is not my father 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z As this is a fairy tale, it’s no spoiler to say that the princess achieves gravity. Review: ‘The Light Princess,’ a Musical at the New Victory Theater 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Perhaps those things are true, but it sounds like a fairy tale. The secret philosophy of language: Searching for the origins of human thought 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Stories of parents trying to protect their children from evil and death only to be undone by the irresistible force of fate run throughout myths and fairy tales. Books to Watch Out For: September 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z A true fairy tale, it combines reality with magic. This Week in Fiction: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya on Poverty and Fairy Tales 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Here lay ambiguity, tangibility, the scrutiny of tiny passages of existence abounding in a pastoral field, all with the intensity of fairy tale. He’s a Legend of Contemporary Poetry. There’s Finally a Volume of His Collected Work. 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z “I suppose I wanted to do something just gentle, like those early fairy tales of Yeats and Lady Gregory, which are terribly childish, terribly romantic, quite beautiful.” Film: Neil Jordan?s ?Ondine,? Possible World of Impossible 2010-05-28T18:58:00Z The miniature cosmos created by Kyujin Lee, whose “Replay and Reshuffle” is also at the McLean center, draws from fairy tales and puppet shows. Review | In the galleries: An artist conjures images from oceans to a micro view of nature 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z He will present seasonal Czech fairy tales like “The Snow Maiden Snehurka” and “The Twelve Months.” Spare Times for Children for Nov. 30-Dec. 6 2012-11-29T23:33:06Z “A fairy tale from ancient times, / I can’t get it out of my mind...” Tracing Jewish History Along the Rhine 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z But at heart, said Christopher Ashley, the director of “Diana,” she was a woman who dreamed of love — specifically the sort found in a romance novel or a fairy tale. Another Go for Charles and Di, This Time With Music 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Sebastian, the author of the best-selling “Ash Princess” trilogy, returns with another dark fairy tale, this one about three royal sisters on a kingdom-building mission. Assassin Princesses, Magical Lakes and Warrior Jinn in New Y.A. Fantasy Novels 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Fans of castles and fairy tales will find plenty to admire. My family went to Germany five days after travel restrictions were lifted. Here’s what we learned. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z I still wanted it to be me, and obviously this is a fairy tale, but I wanted Aurora as a person, I didn’t want it to look too much like ballet, ballet, ballet. Cassandra Trenary on Having (Just) Danced ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The original fairy tale concludes, in some editions, with Chicken Little falling into the clutches of Foxy-Woxy. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z In all the other fairy tales the ogre is an ogre; he’s a monster. Film: ?Bluebeard? Director?s Take on Dark Folk Tale 2010-03-24T22:31:00Z Along the way, the Merja myths and traditions transform the movie into a sort of fairy tale. 'Silent Souls' revives ancient Merja traditions 2010-09-04T18:46:00Z It revolves around “Princes and Princesses,” a film of six unusual fairy tales from the French animator Michel Ocelot, whose courtly figures appear as delicately etched silhouettes. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z It’s musical comedy, with classic fairy tales mixed with modern pop songs. Jonah Platt on channeling his inner Beast for a holiday Beauty 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z As for snow, there’s lots of it in this album of Norway’s most popular fairy tales. Beyond the bestsellers: Michael Dirda picks 12 books for the holidays 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Playing for the cameras, Andi claims that “life with Marcus would be a fairy tale,” and as every faithful reader of the Brothers Grimm knows, fairy tales always end well. RECAP: The Bachelorette Watch: Hometown Dating 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Disneyland’s propensity for turning dark, anxious European fairy tales into shiny, bulbous entertainments had long struck me as odd. At Shanghai Disney Resort, Mulan, Mickey and Dumplings 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Viardot wrote both the music and words for this chamber operetta about Cinderella, a fanciful interpretation of the fairy tale by Charles Perrault. A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z One for younger kids is Enchanted Realms, an online game with live actors playing fairy tale characters. 7 Ways to Keep Your Kids Entertained During Spring Break 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Disney also specializes in that most archetypical of storytelling genres: fairy tales. ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Director Talks of ‘Exclusively Gay’ Moment 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z In recasting these fairy tales Mr Cunningham is returning them to their dark roots. Duty and the beast 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The second season of this "Top Chef" spinoff begins with 14 pastry chefs asked to create a showpiece based on a popular fairy tale. Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-08-19T18:27:08Z But it's not some fairy tale ending for them, as we see from their dance on the ship. "Around the World in 80 Days" co-creator on the twist ending, David Tennant and where to go next 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z We have, Stone says, been sold a fairy tale masquerading as history, and it is so blinding it may ultimately undo us. Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again 2012-11-25T03:37:22Z They loved fairy tales and set about collecting and publishing them — to the delight of readers around the world, young and old, forever after. Journeys: In Germany, on the Grimm Brothers? Fairy Tale Road 2010-06-24T21:07:00Z Princess Elena is “a confident and compassionate teenager in an enchanted fairy tale kingdom inspired by diverse Latin cultures and folklore,” the network said in a statement. Meet Disney's First Latina Princess 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z In fairy tales, ultimately the narrative is usually one of transformation, and usually in most tales that we read now, that transformation resolves with a happy ending. Mona Awad on her sharp-voiced debut, '13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl' 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Not just the furniture, but the fairy tale approach. ArtsBeat: A String of Antiheroes: Martin Amis Talks About His Novels 2012-10-03T12:59:28Z I was in middle school when Taylor Swift began whispering fairy tales in my ear. I Used to Be a Taylor Swift Fan. ‘Miss Americana’ Reminded Me Why. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z His newest collection was a fairy tale gone awry, starring a princess ready to shed her perfect image. Mother Nature's gone glam in an enchanted forest 2011-02-12T22:34:11Z Albert occasionally entwines the haunting fairy tales of the grandmother’s book through this mesmerizing narrative, creating a YA fantasy as lush and twisty as ivy. Review | A celebration of that famous pink hat and other best books for young readers 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z You intercut scenes from Zoe's documentary, and feature "fairy tale" segments that disrupt the main narrative but also comment on it. "What's Love Got to Do With It?" director on dating today, from apps to setups: "Love is a mystery" 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Then the show begins, and behind the radiated arches of the Hall's proscenium we see the two interior arches that Cirque's Stéphane Roy has designed to frame this episodic fairy tale. Cirque du Soleil's Zarkana: The Summer's Great Stage Show 2011-07-03T05:50:00Z “Monte Carlo” is a fairy tale about finding yourself by pretending to be someone else, a Cinderella story for the self-actualization age. | 'Monte Carlo': Cinderella Goes to Europe, and Cute Meets Culture 2011-06-30T22:00:10Z Once upon a time I was transfixed by an illustration of the Little Match Girl in my grandmother’s old copy of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales. A Novel That Will Get People Talking 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z It’s a horror movie, a fairy tale contorted into a calamity. Taylor Swift Goes to a Darker Place: Discuss 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Add in her impending wedding to NHL player Mike Fisher, and Underwood is living a fairy tale life at the moment. Carrie Underwood wins ACM entertainer of the year 2010-04-19T11:50:00Z Obviously this was a bit of fantasy, perhaps to play off the fairy tales in the women’s windows across the street, but I felt for the dudes. On the Runway Blog: Uncomplicated Style ? On the Runway 2011-11-25T22:49:40Z I looked at her and I'm like, 'Taylor, this record isn't about fairy tales and high school anymore. Taylor Swift ready to "Speak Now" with third album 2010-10-15T22:29:00Z The fairy tale scenery — singing birds, pristine air, cool moss clinging to the rocks — called to every sense. Helsinki’s food scene, coming on strong The Brothers Grimm fairy tale in 1812 doesn't even give them separate identities or names, referring to them as "the first one," etc. Peter Dinklage pushes Disney's "Snow White" remake to rethink "f**king backward" dwarf depictions 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Over 12 chapters – a different British forest for each month of the year – the writer explores our woodland's common roots with fairy tales, a tangle of magic and mystery growing from the same rich ground. Gossip from the Forest by Sara Maitland – review 2013-06-21T16:20:00Z The gothic fairy tale adaptation "Red Riding Hood" took in $14 million, while Disney's 3-D animated "Mars Needs Moms!" managed just $6.9 million. `Battle: LA' tops box office with $35.6 million 2011-03-14T21:55:08Z What more was there to do with the fairy tale now that it had been dismantled, rebuilt, inverted and put through a blender? Helen Oyeyemi’s New Novel Is Not a Fairy Tale 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z The show, a cautionary mash-up of various fairy tales, is widely staged, both professionally and at schools, and in 2014 Disney released a film adaptation. A Starry ‘Into the Woods’ Will Play Broadway This Summer 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z A gritty, fact-based fairy tale set in working-class Lowell, Mass., "The Fighter" is quite effective as drama — that is, until it abruptly changes genres in its final act. 'The Fighter': Two parts punchy drama, one part formulaic sports movie 2010-12-16T10:16:05Z But I'd seen on her Instagram these little scratch drawings and they just reminded me of fairy tale books and where each story gets one drawing. "Why Fish Don't Exist" explores eugenics in the US, a Hawaiian murder plot, and the meaning of life 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z So what is the moral of the story of this particular fairy tale? How Cinderella lost its original feminist edge in the hands of men 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z It also has to do with the witches in the fairy tales, especially in Snow White. "Emily In Paris" star Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu: "It's so much fun to play a villain" 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z And as such, it’s a unique opportunity to demystify the experience, and for Kate Middleton to become the future queen who proves that growing a baby is no fairy tale. Kate’s middle is in royal pain 2012-12-04T20:59:00Z What she does with that information tells the truth of the modern rags-to-riches fairy tale, a story fed by sharp hunger and a roiling fear of being destitute again. "On Becoming a God in Central Florida" exposes unfettered capitalism as a rigged and failing game 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z "The Girl With the Red Riding Hood," the Catherine Hardwicke-directed take on the fairy tale. Hollywood courting young actors 2010-04-15T07:33:00Z All shows like this attempt to play out some version of a Cinderella fairy tale. On "Sexy Beasts," love isn't quite blind – but it's an entertainingly shallow heavy petting zoo 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z “That fairy tale aspect of fashion is what appeals to Americans,” Ms. Zoe said. New York Fashion Week: Kate Middleton?s Style Felt on the Runways ? New York Fashion Week 2011-09-07T21:34:15Z Although I'm a big believer in "Happily ever afters" - the ending seemed only fitting considering it's a retelling of fairy tales for adults - laying bare the moral complexities of heroes and villains alike. ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z “It turned out we believed in a big fairy tale.” New documentary re-examines fall of USSR 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z He would try to memorize scripture he heard his father recite and fairy tales his mother told him. W.S. Merwin, prize-winning poet of nature, dies at 91 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z It’s a fairy tale for the insecure and unconfident — the ordinary woman.” Another Hike on the Moors for ?Jane Eyre? 2011-03-05T04:23:01Z “The procession was like a fairy tale,” she wrote on June 14, 1900. The Quarantine Diaries 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z But where once all was fairy tale and filigree, this time it was more “Real Royals of Kensington Palace.” Prince William and Kate Try to Seem Normal 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z After five years, we got engaged, and I was filled with a fairy tale vision of our future, one where nothing went wrong, and the status quo continued unhindered. The voice told me to end my life: This love quieted the voices better than any pill 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z This fairy tale starts with a first date on Tinder as all modern romances do. Our digital disillusionment with dating: When loneliness is both caused and fed by living online 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z And yet, in Bosnia, I found scenery that fit the platonic ideal of a fairy tale, a dreamy dominion punctuated by spindly minarets instead of crosses. A Journey to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Where Sleeping Beauty Awakens 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z And a fairy tale, says Hatcher, is just what it is. Here's What Former Sex Workers Think of Pretty Woman 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z “I have few happy memories of my mother,” the narrator tells us early on in “The Juniper Tree,” this reimagining of a famously savage Grimm fairy tale. Evil Stepmother, Reimagined 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z That word applies to little old ladies in fairy tales or someone who lives far, far down the street. Sheryl Crow’s tumor damage control 2012-06-06T15:40:00Z In Storybrooke, the villain wanted to kill the Author of the fairy tales, held a kid at gunpoint and even subdued a dragon. 'Once Upon a Time': Victoria Smurfit wants to be friends with Cruella De Vil 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z With its green coat of crushed pistachios and splash of ruby seeds, it looks like the enchanted food you might find in a fairy tale, which is fitting for a magical night like Yalda. On Shab-e Yalda, red fruit and fortune-telling rule the night 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Washed-out colors — moss green, dusty blue, sunlight like aged parchment — give the premiere episode of “The Handmaid’s Tale” an almost fairy tale quality. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Series Premiere Recap: Welcome to Gilead 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z "We all wish we had that fairy tale thing in our heads," Lopez said. Jennifer Lopez brings 'The Fosters' to ABC Family 2013-06-07T12:10:12Z Yes, this is another NY-LA fairy tale about two friends who'd be together but have been kept apart by life's circumstances and the width of the continental United States. The decline of the Netflix rom-com 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z “A fairy tale without darkness won’t resonate emotionally,” Mr. Walker said. Front Row: In Tim Walker Fashion Photos, Mermaids Come to Life 2013-12-19T01:18:11Z If the story sounds familiar, that’s because Carey Wallace based her debut novel — it feels more like a fairy tale, really — on a true story. New Books by Ivan Doig, Ayelet Waldman and Lily King 2010-07-14T22:50:00Z The settings of Camilla Morton’s fashion fairy tales are somewhere between here and far, far away. Lacroix and Blahnik Star in Fashion Fairy Tales 2012-02-29T18:45:55Z And to create a revisionist Hollywood that lacks the disabled is to, once again, ignore a group whose fairy tale ending hasn't even begun to be discussed. Why does Ryan Murphy’s "Hollywood" ignore disabled actors in its narrative? 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z We're all taught growing up that there are very basic notions of "good" and "bad," these fairy tales about morality and codes of morality, yet the real world is completely not like that. Comics writer Ed Brubaker on how his art form conquered the entertainment industry 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z First published in 1971, this austerely handsome volume assembles a dozen literary fairy tales, that is, stories written in imitation of the oral folk narratives transcribed by the Brothers Grimm and other scholars. Review | Books make the best gifts. Here are seven surprising choices for the readers on your list. 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z That is the plan and the wish of this story, and it goes to the heart of fairy tales, which are, as Italo Calvino put it, “consolatory fables.” A Scheherazade for Our Times 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z When Blunt is onscreen, these woods are alive with the magic of a fractured fairy tale that wise parents might tell to a sophisticated child — a parable of grownup wonder and angst. REVIEW: 'Into the Woods': A Disney Musical for Adults of All Ages 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z At the time, Égoïste’s anti-romantic theme was a novel idea and became a potent alternative to the fairy tale story lines customarily used to sell fragrances. A Fragrance Debut? First, It’s Lights, Camera, Action 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z But as grown women, we cannot buy into the fairy tales spun by extremist men. How I choose to celebrate Diwali as a feminist 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z But the theatre director Jan Zimmermann, who is staging a fairy tale version of the Brothers Grimm biography at Berlin's Hexenkessel Hoftheater, argued that the pair's endurance lay in the fact that they were international. Grimm brothers' celebration awakens saga of fairy tale link to German culture 2012-12-19T16:23:30Z And that's where the story, if it was a fairy tale, would have ended miserably. Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z The story is a bit of a fairy tale — often hard to execute. Anatomy of a Broadway Flop: Why These 4 Shows Failed 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Similarly, fairy tales have been shown to be an effective and more meaningful way to teach children morals; the naughty-or-nice list becomes a guide to growing up to be a decent person. Is Santa Claus worth the heartbreak? 2013-12-22T21:00:00Z That fractured fairy tale at least featured several women in pivotal roles, which isn’t the case in most movies, family friendly or not. Report Finds Wide Diversity Gap Among 2014’s Top-Grossing Films 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z In conventional tellings of this fairy tale, Jack chops down the beanstalk and saves everyone from the bloodthirsty giant. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z The fairy tale is meticulously shaped — and heavily dependent on casting. ?Undercover Boss? Is Surprise Reality Show Hit for CBS 2010-03-19T22:42:00Z Disney is No. 2 with 20% of the market, with the "Avengers" sequel, "Inside Out" and the live-action fairy tale "Cinderella." Hollywood is on track for a record year, some analysts say 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Disney's adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's hit musical Into the Woods brings together some of the most well known fairy tales, but don't expect a totally happy ending. Streep on 'troubling' witch role 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z She challenges the notion that the fairy tale was a quaint and quiescent form. New Emma Lord mystery, fairy tales and a book of poetry 2014-03-24T19:27:29Z She read fairy tales and the funny papers, Mark Twain and "Treasure Island." Paula Fox looks back on a wayward life 2011-05-05T10:32:09Z I love them and read them because they are, to me, existential fairy tales about one human being's triumph over the all-corrupting force of entropy. Friends in Lowe Places: Rob Lowe and the Art of the Celebrity Memoir 2011-04-21T10:15:00Z Though there might be cultural references thrown in here and there to keep parents from squirming through kids fare, fairy tales for the most part were relegated to youngsters. From 'Maleficent' to 'Game of Thrones,' a magical time for adults 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Details about the plot were scant, but the publisher described the book as “a fairy tale, set in an imaginary land.” J.K. Rowling Begins Publishing ‘The Ickabog,’ for Children in Lockdown 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z A subtler fairy tale setting was found in the small town of Mittenwald, Germany’s center for violin-making, with its impeccably preserved pedestrian old town, canals flowing along the cobblestone streets. On a Family Road Trip Through Germany: Fairy Tales, Castles and Cuckoo Clocks 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Jason Wu’s current concept of chic will entail “an old-school silhouette,” he said, shapely and controlled but voluminous at times, reminiscent of a princess in a fairy tale. New York Fashion Week: Kate Middleton?s Style Felt on the Runways ? New York Fashion Week 2011-09-07T21:34:15Z Unlike in a fairy tale, though, all that conflict has already occurred once Ms. Markle appears — her mere presence is the happily ever after. Royal Rumble: 7 Meghan and Harry Specials Face Off, and We All Lose 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z |
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