https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmOoekbK6YI
In my opinion, the most jarringly inexplicable scene in The Shining is when Shelley Duvall stumbles upon a well-groomed man receiving fellatio from a silent individual wearing what resembles a bootleg Scooby Doo costume.
This sequence has now become the subject of history’s most comically left-field New York Times correction. Yes, it’s stranger than that Brony one.
http://gawker.com/5873442/new-york-times-my-little-pony-correction-rocks-the-bronysphere
Earlier this week, the Old Grey Lady issued this prim amendment after flubbing an extremely important fact in an article concerning a documentary about Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic:
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: January 29, 2012
An earlier version of this article incorrectly described imagery from “The Shining.” The gentleman seen with the weird guy in the bear suit is wearing a tuxedo, but not a top hat.
I wonder who was the first reader to pen an angry letter about this minutia. After all, I imagine that scene is tantamount to the Magna Carta for fursuit enthusiasts.
[Via Slashfilm]
