These are the dudes that did King Corn, a movie I’d highly recommend. (Available as a ‘watch instantly’ on Netflix.)
Here are the original Corn Refiners Association HFCS ads for reference.
I’ve never read Lolita and probably never will.
And there’s even a chance I might even claim to have read it to impress my friends in spite of having not read it.
But I still know what it’s about.
Woolworths apparently didn’t know but marketed the ‘Lolita’ bed (via Collateral Damage):
A parenting website said it was in “unbelievably bad taste” to give the bed the same name as a novel about a sexually precocious young girl.Woolworths said the £395 Lolita Midsleeper Combi was withdrawn when the matter was brought to its attention.
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The story of a stepfather’s sexual obsession with a 12-year-old girl has been adapted for film twice: first by Stanley Kubrick in 1962 and later in 1997 when Jeremy Irons played the lead part of Humbert Humbert.
Catherine Hanly, editor of parenting website raisingkids.co.uk, was among the parents to complain about the furniture advertised on the Woolworths website.
She said a Woolworths press officer had told her staff running the website “had no idea” of the word’s connotations.
I’m not a huge fan of Truth’s stuff or musical theater, but I like this one:
