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A May 25th, 1993, Chicago Tribune column by Anna Quindlen on the recent royal marriage in Japan was titled “’90s Princesshood: What Happened to Happily Ever After?” The notion that marrying a prince ought to be a woman’s highest ambition has recently been dashed on the gems of British and other royalty. Yet, the Walt Disney Company has attempted to persuade us otherwise in its most recent animated films. Despite Disney’s recent corporate changes, the motto for the animation division should be:“The more things change the more we stay the same.” The trailer for the videocassette edition of The Jungle Book (1967) evidences such an implicit motto. Jeffrey Katzenberg, chairman of movie and television operations, introduces clips from the production of Beauty and the Beast (1991) and promises that it is “pure Disney imagination.” Architect of the Touchstone R-rated repertoire, Katzenberg seems to be assuring parents that even if the liveaction films are a departure, the animated ones remain true to the Disney ethos (see Taylor 1987, 217–18, 239–43).