This kind of family entertainment teaches children that animals can be isolated, manipulated, put in harm's way and the adult world doesn't care.
Meanwhile, our entertainments teach us to enjoy fear, to play with it -- to be connoisseurs of our own terror.
Wells spoke up for nourishing entertainment that taught via enchantment.
He is a co-founder of Airborn Entertainment, which teaches parkour in his hometown of Liverpool.
"My experience in the entertainment industry taught me that that kind of popularity can flip and become a negative," Mr. Coker said, "and once it becomes a negative you become Planet Hollywood".
On Saturday, Sunday and Monday only (the garden is open on Labor Day), from noon to 4 p.m., the Everett garden will also feature "Commedia Dell'Arte for Children," in which the New York Baroque Dance Company will present "The Hungry Harlequin," a Renaissance-style entertainment, and teach a popular 16th-century branle, or circle dance, called the Washerwoman.
And what about creating more innovative kids' entertainment to teach food prep skills?
Working in the entertainment field taught me a massive appreciation for everyone in the industry- from reporters, to assistants to publicists and, of course, to the stars themselves.
While I realize that entertainment, not teaching, is the mission of the Food Network, I have learned things by watching it.
