Fly Me To The Moon
August, 1999
Jan Harold Brunvand's Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends (Norton) ought to be required reading for anyone who thought Kurt Vonnegut's MIT graduation speech was authentic. That infamous ode to sunscreen has since been correctly attributed--and is now a hit pop song. It's also a sinning example of an urban legend--something writer Calvin Trillin defined as "modern folktales that usually carry the sniff of the apocryphal and the embellished." Heard the one about the b...
