...>Which newsfeed do you like best, Wes, for newsgroups? ... and how does one use a "newsfeed," anyway? I would suggest mozarella.org (sp?) A news feed is the "server" that extracts posts to newsgroups, and one uses it with some sort of newsreader. Thunderbird, I've heard, is decent "newsreader", though I much prefer Agent. It come is two different flavors. The paid version (I liked it ...

Kate Gladstone wrote: Re: I want to see Disney (or anyone else) make a film for children in which the *villainess* has big blue eyes, soft half-parted rosebud lips, and silken waist-length blonde hair. While it's not Disney, I would point out that the girl who acted as Wednesday Addams' foil in "Addams Family Values" (Mercedes McNab) was blonde--and grew up ...

Kate Gladstone wrote: P. F. Bruns writes: ... Batman spends the vast majority of his time fighting the disfigured and the mentally ill. Enough of that. I wanna see Batman kick Fabio's ass. --P.F. Bruns Even more than you want that, P. F., I want to see Disney (or anyone else) make a film for children in which the *villainess* has big blue eyes, soft half-...

Kate Gladstone wrote: Can anyone think of a Disney flick (or similar children's cartoon), cradle-song, bedtime story (told to the under-7 set), storybook (for more-or-less that same age-group), etc. in which the villain's physical appearance, voice, clothing, posture, skin/hair/eye-color, etc. unquestionably & indubitably fit 100%% the cultural norms for "good guy/good gal/...

Arthur T. wrote: I always use serial commas. You may notice there was no comma between "evil" and "little". "Little kid" acts in my mind as one piece, not as a noun modified by an adjective. He's a SERIAL COMMA KILLER! Run for your lives! Protect the semicolons! Kip W

On Sep 2, 10:15 am, Lee Gold <lee.g...@ca.rr.com> wrote: And for a mind-boggling version of Cinderella, I recommend DONKEY SKIN aka PEAU D'ANE (based on a variant you might find in the Grimms' tale of "Thousand Furs").   This is the one where the princess leaves home so she won't have to marry her father. Robin McKinley has a powerful retelling, Deerskin. Not as good as ...

Lee Gold wrote: So have you seen the old B&W THE BAD SEED? slight spoiler for THE BAD SEED -- I loved that play, and read it several times before I finally got to see the movie with Patty McCormack (sp?). Alas, the performances were so arch and 50s-kitschy, I couldn't accept it as a real story. There was a TV remake that had its own problems, but there was one scene of true ...

Kate Gladstone wrote: Any *innocent*-looking blondes among them? (I've never seen "Girl Genius.") The kind whose facial features include not just blonde tresses, but everything else that Disney _et_al._ have conditioned billions to regard as proof of Absolute and Undoubtable Niceness? (to get an idea of the physical type I mean, think of Disney's cartoon CINDERELLA ... ...

Re: If you're going to allow children in your search, try the movie "The Bad Seed". It's been a long time since I've seen it, but I recall her being a cute, blonde, evil little kid. Yes, "The Bad Seed" for certain (in the book and the movie, too). How could I (of all people) *not* regard as Pure Evilness a kid who kills a schoolmate just to go from 2nd Place to 1st Place in ...

Kate Gladstone wrote: Re: I want to see Disney (or anyone else) make a film for children in which the *villainess* has big blue eyes, soft half-parted rosebud lips, and silken waist-length blonde hair. Well, there's Bangladesh Dupree in the Girl Genius comic - definitely not blonde, but very attractive, highly intelligent, and an extreme...