The success of the Disney Princess line inspired a new Disney Fairies line (led, of course, by Tinkerbell), which will include books and a direct-to-video movie.
The company hopes Fairies, aimed at girls age 4 to 8, will be able to piggyback on the popular Princesses line, which aims at girls age 2 to 5. Mr. Iger said he singled out the Fairies line as a potential blockbuster in part because longevity would not be reliant on the aging of human stars, as is the case with "Hannah Montana" or "High School Musical".
Mr. Clinton's fairy tale line and a comment by Mrs. Clinton that some interpreted as giving President Lyndon B. Johnson more credit than the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for civil rights laws have disturbed African-Americans, who saw them as unfair and diminishing the role of civil rights activists.
His visceral reaction to Obama — from the "fairy tale" line to the inappropriate Jesse Jackson comparison — is rooted less in his need to see his wife elected than in his need to see Obama lose, so that Bill's legacy is protected.
Red fairy trumpets lined the trail, and beads of rain on the aspen leaves sparkled like diamonds in the sun.
The two troopships and Port Fairy were sailing line abreast (Duchess of York was the westernmost of the three ships, California was in the centre and Port Fairy at the east of this group), Iroquois was located 3000 yards ahead and the two other escorts were on each flank of the troopships.
The second episode reveals their fairy-tale story line has its fractures when Ms. Goldstein's best male friend, with whom she clearly has chemistry, comes to visit.
In some ways, this is a classic fairy-tale story line, in which the young hero ventures out in defiance of paternal strictures only to return to the safety and order of home, and reality.
Thus began the real-life unfolding of a fairy-tale story line, a paradigm that has inspired psychological studies (nature vs. nurture), movies ("The Parent Trap") and at least one sitcom ("Sister, Sister").
No one seemed to be keeping pace with the production schedule, and Houellebecq, who envisioned an all-female cast and a fairy-tale plot line that would allow for "more shots of pleasure than of organs," still had only one actress lined up -- his wife.
