This week, we've done a Tales Of The Jackalope special, where we've chosen our favourite videos from five of the artists playing our one-day concert on July 8 in South Derbyshire.
Does a tale of "star-crossed lovers" appeal to you?
An article by a Formula One journalist on the PitPass.com site outlines much of the tale — as does a story by that same journalist (Christian Sylt) in the Daily Telegraph newspaper in England.
Disney pitched the film to them, and "[w]henever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes".
However, the mere presence of animals that talk does not make a tale a fairy tale, especially when the animal is clearly a mask on a human face, as in fables.
He's also done a collection of fairy tales that are equally funny.
He did have a tale to sell, and though the Hüsker Dü angle couldn't have hurt his advance, the core audience for his book is Bob Mould fans, who do very much exist as such.
Columbia Tristar's researchers interviewed 50 children ages 9 to 11 to evaluate concepts for the sequel to "I Know What You Did Last Summer," a tale of a serial slasher equipped with an outsized ice hook.
"Hope Song," a darkly reflective ballad, fits into that category, and so does "A Squirrel's Tale," which takes a brighter and busier path.
Responding to its disappointing box-office performance, Thomas Schumacher, then-president of Walt Disney Feature Animation, said, "It seemed like a good idea at the time to not do a sweet fairy tale, but we missed".
