Twist (dance) craze. Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film "Pulp Fiction" featured John Travolta and Uma Thurman dancing the Twist to Chuck Berry's "You Never Can Tell" as part of the Jack Rabbit Slim's Twist Contest. In "Spider-Man 3" (2007), Harry Osborn and Mary Jane Watson dance to "The Twist". In a Season One episode of "Mad Men" ("The Hobo Code"), Peggy Olsson and several other employees of Sterling Cooper dance to Chubby Checker's "The Twist". Season One takes place in 1960, when Checker's version first became a hit. In 1995 Faber & Faber published "The Twist: The Story of the Song and Dance
The Pale King of comedy and deep sadness in scenes from daily life." Although Little, Brown and Company set "The Pale King"s publication date for April 15, 2011, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble were allowed to sell copies of the novel through their websites as early as March 22, 2011. That elicited protest from many bookstore owners, who felt it put them at an unfair disadvantage. Little, Brown defended the split dates, maintaining it was common practice. Richard Rayner wrote in the "Los Angeles Times" that "The Pale King"s subjects are "loneliness, depression and the ennui that is human life's agonized bedrock, 'the