Illustration by DenBerg
Editor’s note: This page has been removed from our website because it did not meet our editorial standards. Published on June 23, 2023, it was a graphic-novel style piece diving deep into the cultural history of the movie Dirty Dancing, combining drawings and descriptions of the people, places and politics behind the film, and some quotations from its creator, Eleanor Bergstein.
We discovered after publication that virtually all of the written material had previously appeared in other places. The main source appears to have been a 1987 New York Times article about the film;
Following journalistic best practices, the Forward has a policy not to remove pages from our website. But we made an exception in this case because the nature of the piece and the volume of the uncredited material made it impossible to properly correct the record with integrity. We regret having published it.
