It’s hard out here for Snow White. Yes, the character has it rough, losing her parents, targeted by her jealous stepmother who happens to be both a witch and an evil queen, poisoned by apples, her only friends seven jewel-mining dwarfs.
And it’s hard out here for “Snow White� the movie, too, the latest in the live-action remakes that Disney keeps insisting upon making for some reason.
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