Popular Culture
- In Lucky Number Slevin in the beginning of the movie the father and son are at Aqueduct Racetrack.
- There is a scene with Aqueduct Racetrack in the movie A Bronx Tale.
- A scene from A Shock to the System was filmed in the old Aqueduct Raceway Station.
- Felix and Oscar in an episode of "The Odd Couple" go to Aqueduct.
- The Sopranos episode "Pie-O-My" features a number of scenes at the racetrack
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“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“The poet will prevail to be popular in spite of his faults, and in spite of his beauties too. He will hit the nail on the head, and we shall not know the shape of his hammer. He makes us free of his hearth and heart, which is greater than to offer one the freedom of a city.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their ocellated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)