In later editions, it is the stepmother who makes the suggestion, and the father repeatedly hesitates before he finally agrees.
Lisa Pott, the stepmother of Audrie, said the three suspects were removed from the football team after her suicide but weren't expelled from school, despite their pleas to the principal.
This involved a lesson reflecting class struggles in the capitalistic world, with the stepmother symbolizing the selfish, heartless, evil ruling class and Cinderella standing for the innocent, loving, and impoverished working class.
The child is given the opportunity to hate her mother (in the form of the stepmother) and still, as she does in life, love her mother (the real mother, conveniently absent from the tale).
In previews for the 1997 TV movie, Houston's Fairy Godmother and pop singer Brandy's title character were much hyped, but the Rob Marshall-directed production itself was stolen by old pros Bernadette Peters as the stepmother, Victor Garber and Whoopee Goldberg as the King and Queen, and Jason Alexander as a kind of singing, dancing, pratfalling George Costanza.
Happily, the leads carry the day: James Marsden as a prince of grinning vanity, Susan Sarandon as the wicked stepmother (although the climax turns her into something else, again unnecessarily), and, above all, Amy Adams, who, in the role of a would-be princess, finds true momentum, not just sappiness, in the farce of innocence.
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That includes Terrence Mann ("The Addams Family, " "Beauty and the Beast, " the original "Cats") as the king, and Charlotte d'Amboise ("A Chorus Line, " "Jerome Robbins' Broadway") as the sexy stepmother.
In addition, Lisa Pott, the girl's stepmother, said the boys were sober, making their actions cold and calculated.
Mr Wosik's son from a previous relationship told the court earlier in the trial that he had found his stepmother dead on the bed and his father sat beside her.
Daniel, the defendant's son from a previous marriage, was living with his father and stepmother at the three-storey town house along with the couple's two daughters, aged eight and six, and Ms Jakubszyk's cousin.
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The independent report into the case said that "it could not have been predicted" that MacLean would kill his stepmother "at the time that he did".
Prosecutors argued he killed his father, Jeff Hall, 32, to stop him separating from the boy's stepmother.
Or perhaps Lucho knew Alvaro could never manage the company with his stepmother.
During the nights, my stepmother would stay up with my dad to make sure he wouldn't suffocate while he slept.
He bangs on a trailer door, which opens to reveal his stepmother, Sharla (Gina Gershon) or, to be precise, the unclothed lower half of his stepmother.
As part of the investigation, authorities seized several knives from the home Leila shared with her father, stepmother and siblings to determine if one could have inflicted the fatal wounds.
She was a friend my father had made in Cuba, and after the divorce she became my stepmother, his second wife.
The gunman's former stepmother spoke of a very different Wade Page she once knew before losing touch with him more than a decade ago, when she and Page's father divorced.
The plot twist involving Cleese puts Lorraine and Karen in the strange position of daughter and stepmother.
The lawyers asked his father and stepmother to speak to him.
And I went to a tiny village called Alego, where his stepmother still lives in the house where he grew up, and I visited his grave.
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Barun, the artist, now has both a stepmother and a stepfather - both his parents have remarried.
He, too, came from humble beginnings, suffering the deaths of both his mother and stepmother before he turned 17.
Though his father did not believe that he should plead guilty if he were innocent, his stepmother beseeched him to take the deal.
All he's told her about his past is that his mother died, his wealthy father remarried, and his stepmother threw him out of the house.
Later, after their parents divorced and remarried, it was the Forna girls' heroic new African stepmother who watched over them, raising money (from Tiny Rowland, among others) and making sure they did their homework.
To get ahead in the workplace, for a wicked-stepmother type she doesn't remotely admire, she abandons her friends, blows off a date with her father, treats her boyfriend terribly, double-crosses a co-worker and we're supposed to think she's an adorable sweetheart because she has a nice smile.
His stepmother was home schooling him at the kitchen table when the planes hit.
In his view, it was because of that nasty struggle that the Grimm tales so often featured a wicked stepmother.
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