![]() ![]() Then, one night, as she’s leaving a party alone, after a disagreement with said boyfriend, she is grabbed by criminals-who, mistaking her for a woman named “Carol,” slash her face (“you know what happens to little girls who can’t keep their mouth shut?”) and leave her for dead in what appears to be Central Park. She does her job dutifully, but dispassionately she has a boyfriend who treats her as arm candy she wants more, but isn’t yet fully aware of that. She’s in that situation that many films and TV shows of the ’80s found their lead women to be in: She’s “successful,” but misunderstood-and, thus, unfulfilled. ![]() Hamilton, coming to the role fresh off her work in The Terminator, is Catherine Chandler, a socialite and half-hearted attorney in her father’s law firm in Manhattan. The one that was a little bit fantasy and a little bit realism, a magical, whimsical, gritty fusion of Law & Order (which would premiere in 1990, the last year of Beauty and the Beast’s run on CBS) and the Cocteau version of Beauty and the Beast the one that won multiple Emmys, and was nominated for many more the cult hit that anticipated Buffy with its cheeky form of late-’80s American feminism. Martin, writer of A Song of Ice and Fire, the source novels for Game of Thrones. The one that was co-written and produced by one George R.R. But the best of all of these efforts, I’d venture to suggest-the most compelling, the most nuanced, and definitely the one with the hair-sprayiest Beast-is the 1987 TV show starring Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman. And there have been multiple TV shows, too-not just Belle/Beast-themed episodes of shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and X-Men and Merlin, but also a 1976 TV movie starring Trish Van Devere, and a 2009 TV movie starring Estella Warren, and the series that premiered in 2012 on the CW, this one starring Kristin Kreuk. And in case film isn’t your preferred medium, there have also been several Beauty and the Beast video games. There’s also the 1987 musical film starring Rebecca De Mornay and John Savage. There are also the movies-all of them titled Beauty and the Beast-that premiered in 1992, and then in 2005, and then in 2009, and then in 2014. There’s Jean Cocteau’s 1946 film La Belle et la Bête, and Edward Cahn’s Beauty and the Beast, from 1962, and 1983’s Skønheden og udyret, a Danish version of the story directed by Nils Malmros. ![]()
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