1.   After all, I began life as the only child of a wealthy farmer.

2.   Alice was as smart about life as anybody she ever came up against.

3.   All she is asking for, she says, is to live the same kind of life as everyone else.

4.   Also starring are Sarah Knowlton as Hal, a Yale grad suffering the indignities of life as a secretary.

5.   And, just like in the fairytale, her fabulous pumpkins spring to life just as the clock strikes midnight.

6.   Bread, it would appear, is an indispensable foodstuff, as necessary to life as potable water.

7.   But it seems that his interest in primitive ritual had led him to place his own stress on life as a ritual.

8.   He likes his new life as a tour guide better, he says, because he likes people.