Oh, that's where I know him from. D'oh!

We're watching Catch Me If You Can tonight and it's set in the same era. It's making me run a mental list of early sixties touchpoints for the show.

How was it? It's one of those I've been meaning to watch for ages.

How was it? It's one of those I've been meaning to watch for ages.

Loved it. Loved. It. It was one of the most completely, utterly satisfying movies I've seen in ages. Good writing, stellar performances (I can't think the last time I saw Tom Hanks and completely forgot he was Tom Hanks), pretty to look at, so many beautifully composed shots (and always in service to the story, not just Look how pretty we can make this! but pretty with a point), comic and sad and totally engrossing, and who doesn't love a great con artist story?

Hec and I backtracked to rewatch probably four or five different con scenes just to savor Frank Abagnale's total balls-out audacity; we'd lunge for the remote and say "We HAVE to see that again" and cackle like maniacs.

It's no Giant Cinematic Event Fraught With Meaning For The Ages, just a totally engaging unbelievable true-story popcorn movie, but it's definitely the popcorn movie that makes other popcorn movies feel sad and small and inadequate. It may possibly have edged Midnight Run out as my popcorn-movie gold standard.

It's no Giant Cinematic Event Fraught With Meaning For The Ages, just a totally engaging unbelievable true-story popcorn movie, but it's definitely the popcorn movie that makes other popcorn movies feel sad and small and inadequate.

Eh, Cinematic Events Fraught With Meaning can be seriously overrated. I love the idea of the balls-out audacity and of course, the sheer pretty of the era is appealing to me. If the weather wasn't so bad, I'd run out to Target-- perhaps I shall just avail myself of iTunes. See if it's on there.

I can't think the last time I saw Tom Hanks and completely forgot he was Tom Hanks

A League of Their Own At least for me.

It has the added virtue of having one of the coolest title sequences in recent memory. Almost (but not quite as good) as the end title sequence for A Series of Unfortunate Jim Carrey Casting Events.

I am seriously bummed that it's not at iTunes. I'ma either gonna have to venture out in the crummy weather or order from amazon, Right Now.

Looking at the weather, perhaps amazon is the way to go.

apparently, angry fans are protesting the Harry Potter release date push back and the Watchmen nonsense.

I think you wanted to post that in Movies?

no! why would I want to do that? :-)

thanks.

Huh. There's a real Don Draper, a working actor in bit parts. This must be weird for him! [link]

[link] To ad-business giant Allen Rosenshine, the former CEO and chairman (now chairman emeritus) of BBDO, the show is “a total fabrication.”

“I won’t deny that there was drinking, but it was never like that,” he says. “And if anybody talked to women the way these goons do, they’d have been out on their ass.”

In the advertising world, one big difference is that in the old days business was less competitive and few agencies were publicly traded, says Sokotch. When agencies went public and an increasing number of firms started competing for shrinking slices of the pie, things became more cutthroat - and less enjoyable.

“People work harder, and accountants and Wall Street play a greater role,” he says. “It’s still a good business, but back then, man, it was a great business.”

He’s echoed by Della Femina. “Investment bankers started invading the world, and it went from being a business of fun to being a business of money,” he says. “And that changes everything.”