RubberBuzz || Akron Unleashed: Bewitched

6.16.2005

Bewitched

Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell are staring in a movie variation of one of my favorite TV shows of all time, Bewitched. Nicole Kidman is playing a Samantha-Stephens-like character and Will Ferrell is the Darren-ish character. I was really hoping that halfway through the movie someone else would start playing Will Ferrel's character keeping true to the Great Darren Switchup but no such luck. In any case, Bewitched fever is sweeping the nation, well at least it's sweeping Salem, Massechusetts. TV Land just dedicated a statue to the sitcom just weeks away from the release of the movie.

Welcomed by many - including the mayor and some city councilors - but reviled by others, a statue of 1960s TV icon Samantha Stephens of "Bewitched" was unveiled amid a puff of smoke in Salem on Wednesday.

The statue depicts the late actress Elizabeth Montgomery, who played the nose-wiggling Stephens in the 1960s sitcom, sitting sidesaddle on a broomstick, her skirt flying behind her in the breeze, in front of a crescent moon.[...]

The network [TV Land] has placed similar statues of famous sitcom characters around the country, including Brooklyn bus driver Ralph Kramden of "The Honeymooners" at the Port Authority in New York and Mary Richards in Minneapolis, where "The Mary Tyler Moore" show was set.

Let's just hope The Drew Carey Show never makes it onto TV Land. Then our neighbors to the north would end up with a pudgy statue hangin' out by the lake.

The BJ :: 'Bewitched' statue goes up in Salem

(joe :: Bewitched)

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