You have to wonder about the future of our country when there are people who consider this important. If only we could get these people to come out for the invasion of our borders instead of for fantasy time. So much important history happened in New England, why would you pick this to indulge yourself in?
For perhaps the first time, a good witch met an audience she couldn't bewitch.
Amid cheers and jeers, TV Land executives yesterday unveiled a 9-foot-tall bronze statue of the late Elizabeth Montgomery as ``Bewitched'' star Samantha Stevens at Lappin Park in downtown Salem.
``I think it's worse than I imagined using my wildest imagination,'' former Salem Historical Commission member John Carr said of the statue as he held a sign reading ``Salem we're better than this. Much better.''
``It is not a monument to Samantha as much as it is to bad taste. Shame on Salem,'' he said.
``Bewitched'' director and Montgomery's former husband William Asher joined celebrities Bernard Fox, who played Dr. Bombay, Erin Murphy, who played Tabitha Stevens, and Kasey Rogers, who played Louise Tate, for the dedication of the statue depicting Montgomery seated on a broom flying over a crescent moon.
The statue was cast as a ``whimsical'' and ``magical'' tribute by TV Land executives and fans.
Supporters donned such witch garb as capes and pentacles, waved star wands and yelled ``All hail queen Samantha'' as the statue by StudioEIS in Brooklyn, N.Y., was unveiled.
``I think it's an inspiration to all the young little witches out there and it's wonderful that Samantha Stevens has come home,'' said witch Leanne Gordon, 34, of Revere.
But city historians have panned the statue as inappropriate given the city's dark history of witch hysteria when 19 men and women were executed in 1692.
Thanks to the
Boston Herald.
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