The time slot was terrible (Friday nights), it had no major stars attached to it and the premise -- Grimm fairy tales set in modern times around the banner of a police procedural -- sounds like it could be the cheesiest thing ever.

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Those who like their fairy tales served up subversive -- or at the very least hip and self-referential like "Shrek" -- would do well to look elsewhere.

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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.

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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.

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All in all, it's the kind of day that might make adherents to the Goldilocks scenario--that the markets are "just right"--reconsider their belief in fairy tales.

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Jane Corbin sat there dreamy-eyed and wondrous while Major Duncan McSporran regaled her with fairy tales from the Arabian Nights.

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Both Blake Robison, director of the production now running at the Folger Elizabethan Theatre in Washington, DC, and Sam Mendes, who directs the Bridge Project's production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, emphasise this aspect by opening their productions with the actor who plays the unfortunate Mamillius, the boy-prince who dies of grief, reading from a book of fairy tales.

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With them came stories collected on their travels: tales of goblins and giants, fairy queens and woodland nymphs, unearthly phantoms, man-eating ogres and predatory ghouls.

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