![]() ![]() Even kids averse to reading - and I was one - could get a kick out of the obvious parody in such twice-told tales. ![]() The Seven Dwarfs ran health clubs and diet frauds, promising gullible clients they would be as beautiful as Snow White. operative offering fame in exchange for a newborn child. Rumpelstiltskin morphed into a fast-talking P.R. ![]() There were bikes to be ridden, lawns to be mowed! They made an exception for “The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show,” a popular television series during the 1960s, and especially the segment called “Fractured Fairy Tales,” in which the familiar bedtime stories were updated in surprising ways. My high-minded parents discouraged the Saturday morning ritual of watching cartoons. ![]()
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