Newsweek, June 24th, 1996
SOME NINE MOVIE VERSIONS OF The Hunchback of Notre Dame precede Disney's animated musical, a testimony to the enduring power of Victor Hugo's Quasimodo--the sine qua non of outcasts and the spiritual granddaddy of malformed misfits from the Phantom of the Opera to the Elephant Man. Whether it was Lon Chaney, Charles Laughton or Anthony Hopkins hunkering down into the bell ringer's archetypal stoop, a huge part of the appeal of these movies was our lust for grotesque cosmetics, our delight in seeing a famous physiognomy twisted into a horrifically sympathetic visage.
That transformation is n...
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