Comments on: Mad News, September 10-16, 2009

By: Jackie

Jackie — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:19:34 +0000

Sons of Anarchy just had a clever bit. The motorcycle club is now a partner is a porn company and they did a faux Mad Men scene with "Bobbie" beating "Don" with his shoe and then draining a liquor bottle and shoving the neck of said bottle up Don's posterior.

Maybe someone didn't like Don's hair pulling negotiation.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:20:04 +0000

http://www.lohud.com/flash/madmen/

By: Jackie

Jackie — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:31:26 +0000

I went to see My One and Only last night. Great fashion,cars, and period decor from 1953, but they used modern-sized martini glasses at the bar instead of the ones Don and Roger drank from during Oyster-gate. It was good but it wasn't a must see, so wait for the DVD.

Anyway, the "go get some food and then shut the eff up" reminder was clips of Mad Men with appropriate dialogue! It was a Clearview cinema so maybe they're owned by the same company as AMC?

By: Judy S

Judy S — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:52:31 +0000

Did you kids catch this one: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f26c4046b0/lex-l…

By: not_Bridget

not_Bridget — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:09:49 +0000

The Siren: Betty is not the "hanky" type at all. You would know this if you actually watched Mad Men!

By: Esther

Esther — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:15:33 +0000

RIP Mary Travers

I'm sure Father Gill is saying prayer (or rockin' a tribute), if he's still around.

By: hullaballoo

hullaballoo — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:47:56 +0000

Don likes movies. He probably finds something redeemable in the bad ones as well as the good.

By: Deborah Lipp

Deborah Lipp — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:45:42 +0000

Don has undoubtedly seen most of these pics. Not only does he see everything, he expenses it! And Don liked The Best of Everything better than Betty did.

By: spike

spike — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:22:57 +0000

I do like Mad Men because it isn't plot-driven. But that's not the *only* reason I like it.

I also like CSI Miami, which would hardly rank among the culture snobs' top ten TV shows. Highbrow it is not.

By: Melville

Melville — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:26:56 +0000

@ The Siren #16

The Shales dismissal of Mad Men was in his online chat of August 25th:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/disc…

Bob Sassone gave the best rejoinder in his blog on August 28th:
http://bobsassone.typepad.com/bob_sassone/2009/08…

It took me a long time to gain an appreciation for the type of movies on your list. I was in college in the 1970's when I first started to read serious praise of Sirk movies and I didn't get it. To me, they were still soapy women's pics, no matter how much analysis I read. I don't when I started to change my opinion, but by the time Far From Heaven appeared, I had learned enough about the genre to love it. But I still tend to underrate them. I'll (unfairly) categorize something like The Young Philadelphians (my sister's favorite movie) as a Guilty Pleasure rather than a Good Movie. Old prejudices can die hard.