Robin Givhan on Mad Men
She really articulates one of the radical strengths of the show. It just says: this is what entitlement looks like. It's invisible to the people who receive it.
I'm supposed to deliver you to the Master now. There's this whole deal where I get to be immortal. Are you cool with that?
Xander ,'Lessons'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
DavidS - Jul 30, 2008 7:45:45 pm PDT #1081 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
sj - Jul 31, 2008 3:34:05 pm PDT #1082 of 11998
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
We're rewatching Mad Men, because the original broadcast was interupted several times. All the little power struggles that are going on are fascinating. I don't think it was coincidence that the first time we see Betty she's wearing pants.
I can't believe Betty made that Gone with the Wind comment to her daughter.
erikaj - Jul 31, 2008 3:35:25 pm PDT #1083 of 11998
Always Anti-fascist!
Betty can be scary sometimes.
amych - Jul 31, 2008 3:37:16 pm PDT #1084 of 11998
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I can't believe Betty made that Gone with the Wind comment to her daughter.
OMG I KNOW! I was all, "OH NO SHE DIDN'T!" and the hub was all, "what?" and I guess some people, if they were not horsey drama queens with a tendency to be easily SCARRED FOR LIFE just don't understand.
(yes, dear, I know you lurk on this thread.)
sj - Jul 31, 2008 3:38:08 pm PDT #1085 of 11998
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Most of the time, I think.
erikaj - Jul 31, 2008 3:46:45 pm PDT #1086 of 11998
Always Anti-fascist!
My own mom is more like the divorcee that scandalized everyone with the non-seasonal wrapping paper. Yeah, I thought that was a bit...specific. "Horses are big. you could get hurt," should be good enough, right? I guess Betty is in such a tizzy of anxiety all the time, she doesn't consider how she sounds. She has a cute little shape, though.
SailAweigh - Jul 31, 2008 3:50:11 pm PDT #1087 of 11998
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I just want to know where her daughter either saw the movie or read the book (!) to even know what Betty was referring to. I know it's one of those movies they ocassionally put back in theaters (I saw it at the Majestic in the early 70s), I don't think it would have been on TV, then.
DavidS - Jul 31, 2008 3:54:25 pm PDT #1088 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I know it's one of those movies they ocassionally put back in theaters
Not occasionally - very regularly. I'm not sure of the actual numbers but it was something like two or three times a decade.
eta: I lied. Once a decade.
Gone with the Wind was given theatrical re-releases in 1947, 1954, 1961, 1967 (in a widescreen version),[20] 1971, 1989, and 1998. It made its television debut on the HBO cable network in June 1976, and its broadcast debut the following November on the NBC network, where it became at that time the highest-rated television program ever presented on a single network, watched by 47.5 percent of the households in America, and 65 percent of television viewers.
erikaj - Jul 31, 2008 3:55:41 pm PDT #1089 of 11998
Always Anti-fascist!
Maybe on TV...Mom's a little older than Sally and I think that's where she saw it(And it's trippy to type that Mom's older than Sally Draper, cause I am too. Cause she's eight right now.) But mom may have been older...memories have a way of telescoping and stuff.ETA: Or yeah, Hec, maybe it was such a favorite of Betty's she took Sally to the re-release, even though it seems Sally's a bit young for it.
Jon B. - Jul 31, 2008 4:33:51 pm PDT #1090 of 11998
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Gone with the Wind was given theatrical re-releases in 1947, 1954, 1961
Well, there you go. The daughter could've easily seen it in 1961.
ETA: I missed Erika's ETA.