Snow White, Peter Pan, Dumbo and The Little Mermaid… all films that children across the UK have loved watching, often without their parents’ company.
But the beloved animations could soon have their age rating lifted from U to PG – after the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) hiked the grading of Mary Poppins.
Despite the film enchanting generations of youngsters, the 1964 tale of Julie Andrews’ magical nanny is now considered not to be suitable for children to watch
Few characters are as strikingly memorable as a classic Disney villain. Sleeping Beauty’s haughty sorceress, Maleficent; The Little Mermaid’s operatically campy sea witch, Ursula; The Lion King’s melodramatically evil Scar—each one so charismatic they tend to obscure their movie’s protagonist. (Quick: What is the princess’s name in Sleeping Beauty?)
But despite their prominence in classic films, animated villains have slowly disappeared from screens over the past decade. Recent movies such as Turning Red and Encanto certainly
During the interview, I realized almost immediately that the woman was pregnant—I guessed she was about halfway along—but she didn’t remark on it, and of course neither did I. Over the phone, we’d discussed only her 3-year-old daughter. The woman, whose name was Diane, was looking for a babysitter for the girl, whose name was Sophie, two mornings a week from 9 a.m. to noon, for $10 an hour. This was in late January 1997, my senior year at
