In Popular Culture
"Pale Male," a one hour documentary by filmmaker Frederic Lilien, aired on NATURE - WNET in 2004. A feature documentary called The Legend of Pale Male by Frederic Lilien was completed in April 2009.
Alt-Country singer Steve Earle references Pale Male in his song "Down Here Below", from the 2007 album Washington Square Serenade.
Pale Male (or at least a puppet of him) has made several appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien where he played various instruments with The Max Weinberg 7
At least three children's illustrated books about Pale Male have been published, including:
The Tale of Pale Male: a True Story, by Jeanette Winter (Harcourt, 2007);
City Hawk: the Story of Pale Male, by Meghan McCarthy (Simon & Schuster, 2007); and
Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City, by Janet Schulman (Knopf, 2008)
Pale Male is the mascot of P.S. 6, an elementary school at the Upper East Side, Manhattan.
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