MrRING
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Salem Not Bewitched
Residents of Salem, Mass.—site of a real-life witch hysteria in 1692—are wrinkling their noses at a proposed statue honoring the 1960s sitcom Bewitched, the Associated Press reported. The TV Land cable network wants to erect a 9-foot bronze statue in a city park honoring the late Elizabeth Montgomery, who played Samantha Stephens in the sitcom, about a witch married to a mortal man.
But residents like Jean Harrison said the statue would be insensitive. She told The Boston Globe that Montgomery played a fictional comic witch, but those who were condemned to die in the Salem witch trials weren't witches at all. Others point out that Bewitched had no connection to the city other than a visit by the cast in 1970, the AP reported.
Mayor Stanley Usovicz strongly supports the statue, saying it would be a fun spot for tourists to stop and have their pictures taken. He also says it would be located far from Gallows Hill, where 19 accused witches were hanged, the AP reported.
The sitcom is the basis for an upcoming Bewitched movie, starring Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell.
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