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11 unusual facts about Lolita


Do the Strand

The lyrics are, as is typical for early Roxy Music lyrics, intellectual references, including The Sphinx, Mona Lisa, Lolita and Guernica.

Laura Sadler

In 1996 she starred in the feature film Intimate Relations alongside Julie Walters, where she played a Lolita-like girl with a crush on her mother's adulterous lover.

Leonard Frey

He played Clare Quilty in the Alan Jay Lerner musical Lolita, My Love which closed, before reaching Broadway, in 1974.

Lo's Diary

Lo's Diary is a 1999 novel (ISBN 0964374021) by Pia Pera, retelling Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita from the point of view of "Dolores Haze (Lolita)".

Lolita, My Love

The original director was opera impresario Tito Capobianco, and choreography was provided by Jack Cole, although Cole was fired during rehearsals and replaced by Danny Daniels.

"Going, Going, Gone" was recorded by Shirley Bassey, and "In The Broken-Promise Land Of Fifteen" has been recorded several times, notably by Robert Goulet.

Lolita, Texas

The notes on the text, written by Vivian Darkbloom (Nabokov's alter ego), state that "this town exists, or, rather, existed, for it has been renamed, I believe, after the appearance of the notorious novel," referring, of course, to Nabokov's own novel Lolita.

In the Vladimir Nabokov novel Ada, or Ardor, in a letter to Marina after his duel with Baron D'Onsky, Demon Veen tells her that he had gone to his aunt's ranch near Lolita, Texas.

Love That Boy

Despite the similarity in the subject matter, one critic asserted that Love That Boy is not a "male version of Lolita," but rather just a statement of how love can be perplexing.

Stratosphere Girl

However, despite having spurned some of the other girls, she soon proves to be a favourite among the patrons by pretending to be a Lolita-style 15-year-old to please the businessmen.

White and Black Blues

Composed by Georges Ougier de Moussac with lyrics by Serge Gainsbourg, the song was originally titled "Black Lolita Blues", however Ursull, the first black woman to represent France at the Contest, declined to perform it due to the pejorative connotations of the word.


Albion Correctional Facility

Most famously, Albion housed "Long Island Lolita" Amy Fisher for 3½ years; she was then transferred to the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, the only maximum security prison for women in New York State and located in Bedford Hills, New York.

Amy Fisher

Amy Elizabeth Fisher (born August 21, 1974) is an American woman who became known as "the Long Island Lolita" by the media in 1992, when, at the age of 17, she shot and severely wounded Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her lover Joey Buttafuoco.

Babyji

In contrast to this scenario is Animika herself, a budding intellectual who devours books—among other authors, she has read Dostoevsky, Sartre, Kundera and Bradbury and reads Nabokov's Lolita during her trip to Kasauli—and at school excels at maths and physics.

Cameron McVey

In 2006 McVey (under the name Burt Ford) along with Neneh Cherry, Matt Kent (aka Karmil) and Lolita Moon released the album Laylow, as a band called CirKus.

Cinema of Obsession: Erotic Fixation and Love Gone Wrong in the Movies

Male masochism, a key element in many of the films, especially film noirs like Criss Cross, The Killers, Gilda, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and more modern explorations like Lolita and Cronenberg's M. Butterfly, earns its own chapter.

CirKus

Lolita plays Roland V-Synth (with its D-Beam system that allows her to control some parameters with her hand) and Akai MPC

Conchita Marquita Lolita Pepita Rosita Juanita Lopez

Conchita Marquita Lolita Pepita Rosita Juanita Lopez is a 1942 novelty song first recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra and later by Bing Crosby with the Vic Schoen Orchestra, Tommy Tucker and his Orchestra and the Royal Air Force Dance Orchestra.

Desiderio Alberto Arnaz II

He married Dolores “Lolita” de Acha y de Socias (2 Apr 1896 - 24 Oct 1988) in 1916 and had one son, Desi Arnaz.

Dongducheon Rock Festival

The line-up included DOA, Black Hole, Do Won Kyoung, Cinnamon, Crash, Jeremy, Black Syndrome, Lolita No.18, Sister's Barbershop, No Brain, Transfixion, Sinawe, Schizo, Gaia, Hammer and Niflheim

Doris Lee

Lee's 1935 painting "Noon" is briefly described in Vladimir Nabokov's classic 1955 novel Lolita: "... she Lolita wanted to know if the guy noon-napping on Doris Lee’s hay was the father of the pseudo-voluptuous hoyden in the foreground.

Gothic Lolita Propaganda

Gothic Lolita Propaganda is Yōsei Teikoku's first major debut album, released on April 25, 2007.

Heinz von Lichberg

Lichberg was mostly forgotten, until literary scholar Michael Maar came across his "Lolita" short story and argued that Nabokov had derived his story from Lichberg's work in several articles and a 2005 book.

James Kip Finch

He married Lolita P. Mollmann (d. 1964) on June 25, 1910, in Stanford, New York.

Japanese fashion as social resistance

This could be due to the short skirts, they can wear or it can be drawn from its namesake the novel ‘Lolita’ by Vladimir Nabokov.

John Houghtaling

Magic Fingers was also seen in the 1997 film Lolita, the 1998 Clay Pigeons, and in the episode of CSI VegasAssume Nothing” (season 4, episode 1).

Joshua Fineberg

He worked on an evening-length modern dance/theatre piece with the Belgian choreographer Johanne Saunier and founding member of the Wooster Group Jim Clayburgh based on Nabokov’s Lolita.

Kim Morrissey

In speaking of her work in Lolita Unclothed, a documentary by Camille Paglia, she has complained that in the novel Lolita has "no voice".

Lita Grey

The Chaplin biographer Joyce Milton asserted in Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin that the Grey-Chaplin marriage was an inspiration for Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita.

Loli

Lolicon, a phenomenon in Japan, which encompasses fictional works with lolita characters

Lolicon

The phrase is a reference to Vladimir Nabokov's book Lolita, in which a middle-age man becomes sexually obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl.

The phrase is a reference to Vladimir Nabokov's book Lolita, in which a middle-aged man becomes sexually obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl.

Lolita KompleX

After the break-up of his former band Sanguis et Cinis, Eve Evangel founded Lolita KompleX in early 2008 to realize his idea of a Lolita fashion inspired, but independent Gothic Metal band.

Maddox Arts

These include 'Viva Lolita' in 2008; a show inspired by Vladimir Nabokov's iconic novel, Lolita, which brought together eighteen international contemporary artists such as Nobuyoshi Araki, Trevor Brown, Nick Ruston, Charlotte Beaudry, Nazif Topcuoglu and Young British Artist, Mat Collishaw.

Moi... Lolita

The song was instrumental in showcasing Alizée's image as that of a seductive Lolita character, referring to the novel by Vladimir Nabokov.

Murder in a Blue World

His body falls next to the book Anna was reading: Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita".

Old Man of the Sea

The Old Man of the Sea is briefly mentioned by Vladimir Nabokov in Lolita in the scene where Humbert Humbert as a child is attempting coitus with his first love, Annabel.

Picnic, Lightning

The title poem is a reference to Humbert Humbert's mundane description of his mother's death as described by him in the second chapter of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

Roberta Shore

Later she played Ricky Summers in the 1960 movie Because They're Young, and had another uncredited role, as Lorna in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 version of Lolita.

Stanley Kubrick Archive

His films are: Fear and Desire, Killer's Kiss, The Killing, Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut.

Sue Lyon

Based on the Vladimir Nabokov Lolita, Kubrick's film, though a toned-down version of the book—Lolita is only 12 at the beginning of the novel and 17 at the end—was nonetheless one of the most controversial films of its day.

The Courts of Chaos

The allusions grow deep here however; the line in Lolita is itself an allusion to Bizet's Carmen as well as Mérimée's novella upon which it is based.

Trevor Ariza

Ariza is of Dominican and Turks & Caicos Islands descent through his grandfather Osvaldo Ariza, a native of Puerto Plata, and his mother Lolita, a native of Grand Turk Island.

Weighed But Found Wanting

Weighed But Found Wanting (Filipino: Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang) is a 1974 Filipino drama film by Lino Brocka, starring Christopher De Leon (who made his debut), Hilda Koronel, Lolita Rodriguez and Eddie Garcia.