“Beauty & the Beast” in Our Time

The major myth of our era (the LATimes Book Review)

“Beauty and the Beast,” directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise (Disney, 1991)

Sometimes extraordinary things happen to ordinary people, even professors. First I had a phone call from a program director at BBC4 in England. He was thinking about doing a program about fairy tales. “I wonder,” he asked, “do you think fairy tales say anything to us today? I mean, do they provide paradigms or something…