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'Beauty And The Beast,' Music, And More From South By Southwest

This week, we visit the new Disney live-action adaptation of Beauty And The Beast, and we all report back from Austin about the happenings at South By Southwest.
Emma Watson plays Belle in Disney's <em>Beauty and the Beast</em>, a live-action remake of the 1991 animated film.

Tale as old as tiiiiiiime ...

By which, of course, I mean "tired people return from South By Southwest."

But in any event: this week's. How are the candlesticks? How's the new music? And, as Katie wonders, is there adequate eroticism within the Beast, compared to the cartoon Beast who set Katie's young heart aflutter so many years ago? And what's the -iest part of the Beast's new tune, anyway?

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