Saw "
Maleficent" today. Angelina Jolie was perfect in the starring role and Elle Fanning is a delight as Aurora; her smile lit up the theater. This isn't the simplistic fairy tale but a character driven story of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption.
It also inspired me to pull out the two bits of "Sleeping Beauty" memorabilia I own: the Little Golden Book version of the Disney animated movie and a large format brochure, with a foldout centerfold, from Disneyland, copyright 1957, that my parents brought home for me during a trip they made to California in either 1959 or 1961 or maybe sometime in-between. The brochure is in very worn shape, torn where it was opened and closed too many times over the decades as I read and reread it endlessly, especially opening it to admire the centerfold. The book is marred by my outlining one illustration, something I tended to do when I was a kid.
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| Sleeping Beauty Castle Brochure |
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| Sleeping Beauty Castle Brochure |
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| Sleeping Beauty Castle Brochure |
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| Sleeping Beauty Castle Brochure |
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| Sleeping Beauty Castle Brochure |
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| Sleeping Beauty Castle Brochure |
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| Sleeping Beauty Castle Brochure Centerfold |
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| Little Golden Book |
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