THE FAIRYTALE’S OVER BY MICHAEL ROQUE The credits rolled on a predictable “happily ever after” note. Bambi, triumphant, stood with his dad, seven dwarfs chased the Evil Queen off the mountain’s ledge and a generation of kids were tucked into a million little racecar beds. A generation adrift in dreams, snoozed through their fairytales flattened by the collapsed walls of a caved-in 20th century, AWOKE to mounting debts. AWOKE on sidewalks. AWOKE to the reality that this movie was never Disney, but just a handful of happy little scenes in a bizarre film by Fellini. ACTION! Caught in a rifle’s scope, Bambi and Faline are butchered in a human home. A divorced drunk, sleeping Snow White is sneakily felt up by the dwarfs she so dearly trusts. And the film— rolls— on. 31 ALAN ROY, DRAWN WITH A BROKEN HAND - @ORT_BYROY BRIAN J HOFFMAN, SNITCHWEED - @BRIANJAYHOFFMAN
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