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 Frogs Who Desired a King the frequent allusions in Robert Graves source novel "Claudius the God", was titled "Old King Log". In it the aging emperor refers to himself as such, to the confusion of his advisors. The Frogs Who Desired a King The Frogs Who Desired a King is one of Aesop's Fables and numbered 44 in the Perry Index. Throughout its history, the story has been given a political application. According to the earliest source, Phaedrus, the story concerns a group of frogs who called on the great god Zeus to send them a king. He threw down a log, which fell in