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#77 2007-08-31 15:04:09
- Dead Man's Tweed
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Re: I love Mad Men
AQG,
Perhaps try, the G L A D (message, board).
#80 2007-08-31 23:58:18
- Horace
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Re: I love Mad Men
The best suits so far. Episode 7:
http://stage6.divx.com/user/marry1339/video/1586939/nem-dam-107
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#81 2007-09-01 01:00:17
- jack_sparrow
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Re: I love Mad Men
"However, it is we of the moderator corps that
ended up handling the hundreds of Post Reports your previous - and
legendary - trolling managed to generate."
#82 2007-09-02 12:04:48
- Film Noir Buff
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Re: I love Mad Men
I like the female characters a lot better than the men. They spent a lot of time making the men immature and silly without the redeeming quality of being entertaining. They seem to all fall far short of an ideal they know theyre supposed to live up to;meanwhile letting it all hang out has taken some of the "forbidden fruit" excitement out of today. Makes me wonder which fate is luckier.
#84 2007-09-06 18:31:21
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Re: I love Mad Men
The 28 flights of stairs was a classic episode. a very witty show with a resonance for today. I may be misquoting but the funniest line so far was spoken to Mr. Draper recruiting him for the 1960 campign; "We have a candidate: young, handsome, a Navy Hero in the war: Dick Nixon!" and he did have a lot of advertising people surrounding him when he finally came to power. This is actually a very serious subject. controlled by the people who wore tassel loafers.
My gosh someone really has to write about this stuff. Fitzgerald could do it, but when has there been since an American writer who could write about the money. I am serious. since WWII american writers have missed out on the great American stories except maybe Updike. America isn't just rich like Rabbit. (a story of the hard times of the 1980s) America is way way rich. and it needs good writers to tell the tale.
#85 2007-09-06 19:43:08
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Funny. Maybe I am inspiring myself. I know just as many ugly tales as Tom Wolfe and I suspect I know more stories of really old money in the americas. who knows. I had a better writing game than when I was young. The golf game has gone to hell. I came of age in the early 1980s and I saw a lot of the money being made. Maybe one of these days I will write about America when it really really became wealthy. Yesterday I saw the President's uncle on the tennis court being insulted by some goofball who didn't even know who he was. It is a story. It is all hard to believe.
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#86 2007-09-06 20:28:18
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I'm watching the new episode. I associate Dan Draper's small double vents with Anderson and Sheppard, just like Fred Astaire used to wear. The girls are heading to PJ Clarks. Now that is a bar I know and girls couldn't sit at the bar until circa 1970 and there were feminists engaged in a sit down strike at the bar. The bar tender shouted out to the owner as he headed out the door: What do I do with these women? He replied: Oh fix them a drink. I gotta make the Daily Double out at Belmont, as the door slammed. A man with the appropriate priorities, even in those primitive days.
#87 2007-09-06 20:47:36
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It was approximately the era when Hubert Humphrey, Frank Costello and Marilyn Monroe would have sat at seperate lunch tables at PJ Clarks, waiting for their lunch dates. And I think I saw the St Regis Bar at some point in this episode.
But it was circa 1966 when Bob Kennedy and Arthur Schlensinger sat in the back room at PJ Clarks and dismissed the Warren Report. But all that is history now. Now it is all legend.
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#88 2007-09-06 20:55:36
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Re: I love Mad Men
I know the world and the places. I know the attitudes. they all seem like they were yesterday.
#89 2007-09-08 01:12:28
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""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#90 2007-09-08 01:15:05
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""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#91 2007-09-08 01:22:14
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""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#93 2007-09-08 22:52:28
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""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#97 2007-09-11 10:30:37
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Re: I love Mad Men
Episode 8 is up in the usual location. Some interesting confrontations with homosexuality.
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#99 2007-09-12 05:38:49
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""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.