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Actual title: How Would the Publishing World Respond to Lolita Today?

• DyslexicAtheist 6y ago
  the responses here would have been influenced by the difference in message. perhaps even act as proof for what the title claims ;)
• Animats 6y ago
  It's hard to imagine someone reviving Gigi[1] today. That was a Broadway musical (1973) and a movie (1958). "Thank Heaven For Little Girls: [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigi_%28musical%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigi_%28musical%29 [2] https://youtu.be/2TqSyvdqn9c https://youtu.be/2TqSyvdqn9c
  • mod 6y ago
    And per the link, it was revived in 2015.
    • Animats 6y ago
      In a "squeaky cleaned up" version.[1] "Gigi is now 18, not 15. (And played by Vanessa Hudgens, age 26 at the time.) ... Recall Maurice Chevalier, playing the narrator, the suave silver fox Honoré Lachaille, singing “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” as he strolls through the Bois de Boulogne, eyeing young girls romping in the park. ... No doubt leading the list of Ms. Thomas’s chores was removing this song from the mouth of an elderly gentleman. It has now been cleverly bleached of lechery, reassigned to two female characters, Gigi’s grandmother, Mamita (Victoria Clark), and her Aunt Alicia (Dee Hoty), becoming an innocuous elegy for the fleeting nature of young girlhood." [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/theater/vanessa-hudgens-in-a-squeaky-clean-gigi-on-broadway.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/theater/vanessa-hudgens-i...