Corpse Bride, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, is based on the Jewish folk tale "The Finger". The film adaptation adds a lot of embellishments and changes the ...

It was always 1933 in my mother’s one photograph of Fanny, her hair bobbed like Garbo’s, her eyebrows thin, penciled arcs. Her silk skirt flowed to her shoe buckles. Her arms were fleshy, the way ...