The Boston Globe, October 18th, 1992
"I guess you think you know this story. You don't. The real one's much more gory. The phoney one, the one you know, Was cooked up years and years ago, And made to sound all soft and sappy. Just to keep the children happy." "Cinderella" in "Revolting Rhymes" by Roald Dahl ROCKLAND -- Once upon a time, a girl named Cinderella met a handsome prince at the Palace Ball. Lynne Curtis didn't have a problem with that. Then the prince chopped off the heads of Cinderella's stepsisters, mainly because they were ugly. Then he called Cinderella a "dirty slut" and tried to decapitate her, too. That's when L...
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