Left on the shelf
Often on a Halloween night out, as you watch a couple dressed predictably as Salt and Pepper head home together or, more surprisingly, the tin man head off into the night with Hilary Clinton, it’s easy to feel left on the shelf.
34. Imho couples costumes should be banned, or at the very least those who wear them should be shunned
But ‘The Witches’ was very nearly left on the shelf in a more serious way. It was temporarily lost in limbo as movie distributer Lorimar dissolved that part of their operation.
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Everything was shot, those child actors were presumably scarred for life, and Anjelica Huston had endured more time in the makeup chair than a Year 11 girl applying chronically too much foundation on her way to prom- but post production ground to a halt for a whole year.
35. Ironically, the book itself was banned from sitting on a lot of American shelves
That’s right, Dahl’s dark tale placed at number 22 on the American Literary Association’s list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books for the 1990s.
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And it wasn’t the only of Dahl’s works to make the list- ‘James and the Giant Peach’ also makes a somewhat unexpected appearance. Because giant fruit is perverse? It promotes unrealistic housing expectations in a post sub-prime mortgage nation?
36. Before we had My Chemical Romance, sweeping side fringes, and the other bastions of emo subculture, we had JD Salinger
The book kept some fairly high profile company, listed alongside Judy Bloom’s ‘Forever’ and teenage angst fest ‘The Catcher in the Rye’.
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