The Journal charges for access, so I'm not sure if this link will work for most of you, but here it is, from today's (Tuesday's) paper: http://interactive.wsj.com/archive/retrieve.cgi?id=SB99289666317721046.djm Pertinent quotes: "Tossing the hat inspired so many women," says Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles-Belton. "It showed us we're capable. We're bold. And we're cute." "I don't think public space should be used to give advertising to big corporations," says Clay Steinman, a communications professor at Macalester College in St. Paul. Moreover, he finds it odd that Minneapolis wants to honor someone who never existed except as a celluloid image. "It's like celebrating a unicorn." "It's absolutely ridiculous and superficial to honor some actress who flew in, threw her hat and flew home," says Jessica Bernard, a Minnesota social worker, "when we've never put up a statue to [civil-rights activist] Nellie Stone Johnson, who is the Rosa Parks of this city." After earlier uncertainties, the exact location of Mary's hat toss has finally been determined. How? Minneapolis Public Art Administrator Mary Altman says she viewed the TV show's opening, frame by frame, "like it was the Zapruder film" of President Kennedy's assassination. David Brauer List manager (with a tip o' the cap to list member Sonja Dahl...) _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
