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A lyric from the song was used as the title of the 1971 novel Go Ask Alice. [35] [36] The song was used in episode 9 "The Blue Scorpion" of The Twilight Zone. [37] The song was used in The Game when Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) revisits his house after starting The Game and in the credits.
The title was taken from a line in the 1967 Grace Slick-penned Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit" [7] [13] ("go ask Alice/ when she's ten feet tall"); the lyrics in turn reference scenes in Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, in which the title character Alice eats and drinks various substances, including a mushroom, that make her grow larger or smaller.
The song is about a man's long-standing unrequited and unadmitted love toward Alice, his next-door neighbour of 24 years. The protagonist learned through mutual friend Sally that Alice is moving away, and begins to reflect on childhood memories and his friendship with Alice, and becomes heartbroken as he sees Alice drive away in a limousine.
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Fifty years after its publication, this literary fraud about a drug-addled girl is still on the shelves. Can its damaging lies about addiction ever be undone?
"The Ballad of Poker Alice" Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter Two: Larry Kenneth Potts: Nothing Like It in the World: Stephen Ambrose: Relates the story of "Poker" Alice Ivers [51] "The Ballad of Skip Wiley" Barometer Soup: Jimmy Buffett: Tourist Season: Carl Hiaasen: A song about the character Skip Wiley from Hiaasen's 1986 novel. [52 ...
In the Walt Disney version of Alice in Wonderland, during their first meeting Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum ask Alice if they should play this game. In the Robert Frost poem "The Witch of Coos," the game is referenced in lines 7–8: "Summoning spirits isn't 'Button, button, who's got the button,' I would have them know."
Love It to Death is the third studio album by American rock band Alice Cooper, released on March 9, 1971.It was the band's first commercially successful album and the first album that consolidated the band's aggressive hard-rocking sound, instead of the psychedelic and experimental rock style of their first two albums.