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• Please, Pixar, No Princesses

  So Pixar’s latest, “Up” seems to be a big hit, earning rave reviews and scoring big at the box office. But it prompted Linda Holmes, blogger for NPR’s pop culture blog Monkey See, to write a heartfelt open letter to Pixar. “This is not an angry letter. It is especially not an angry letter about Up, which I adored,” she begins. “I could have sat in the theater and watched it two more times in a row…. So I'm not complaining; I'm asking. I'm asking because I think so highly of you. Please make a movie about a girl who is not a princess.”   Read More... Posted Jun 02 2009, 02:01 PM by Amy Kuras with | with 19 comment(s) Filed under: princesses, girls, tomboy, role models, NPR, pixar, girls in movies, Linda Holmes, “Up”, adventurer