Popular Culture
The cultivar Kimjongilia is a floral emblem of North Korea.
The Grateful Dead wrote the popular song "Scarlet Begonias".
Begonia Blossom Herbert is also a contemporary American artist from San Francisco.
In the 1993 American comedy Mrs. Doubtfire, a goat eats a begonia belonging to Miranda Hillard (played by Sally Field) during her son's birthday party.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“There’s that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)