Cinderella.
The 1997 TV adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s
Cinderella, starring Brandy Norwood and Whitney Houston, landed on Disney+ on Friday, February 12. The release marks the first time the movie has ever been available on streaming a huge milestone for a film whose cultural reception has long outlived its initial critical appraisal.
While critics at the time of its release were polite but chilly “this is a cobbled-together ‘Cinderella’ for the moment, not the ages,” the New York Times declared Brandy’s
Cinderella has held massive sway over the hearts of the ’90s kids who watched it, as well as subsequent generations who grew up with the film on DVD. In fact, it’s been dubbed by some “one of the most important movies of the ’90s.” And with many people drawing comparisons between “The Brandy
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The Goods devotes a lot of time to thinking about what it means to spend money: what we choose to buy, what it says about who we are as individuals and as a society, and why it all matters. That’s the focus of our essay series The Best Money I Ever Spent, where people write about the purchases they’ve made, big and small, that affect their lives.
To close out 2020, our staff wanted to take a swing at the notion of spending and value from a different angle, examining the items, experiences, and services that we may well have bought in another timeline, but certainly not in this one. Whether it was a gym pass or a year of preschool, a cheeseburger or a plane ticket to a friend’s funeral, the things we couldn’t buy this year marked how radically different our lives became compared to what we might have imagined and raised the question of how they’ll be on the other side.