References in Popular Culture
- In the movie, Annie Hall, Los Angeles producer Tony Lacy (played by Native New Yorker Paul Simon) tempts the title character with offers of stardom, inducing her to relocate from New York to Los Angeles, or "Munchkinland", as her boyfriend, Alvy Singer (played by Woody Allen), describes it.
- Conducting an Internet search of "munchkin land" yields numerous references to business, such as child care centers, schools, and clothing stores, that cater to children.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.”
—Auguste Rodin (1849–1917)
“There has never been in history another such culture as the Western civilization M a culture which has practiced the belief that the physical and social environment of man is subject to rational manipulation and that history is subject to the will and action of man; whereas central to the traditional cultures of the rivals of Western civilization, those of Africa and Asia, is a belief that it is environment that dominates man.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)