It is perhaps time for a new English translation of the Grimm brothers' "Children's and Household Tales" (1812) on its 200th anniversary -- if only as an occasion to remind us how far from the folk originals most of our latter-day fairy tales have fallen: Kristen Stewart's bare-knuckles (and meta-adulterous) Snow White, the bubble-gummy soap operatics of ABC's "Once Upon a Time," the overwrought tweeny romance qua murder mystery of Catherine Hardwicke's "Little Red Riding Hood."
Hollywood would like to skip spring and head straight to summer.
