And did you notice how deliberately we were shown that it was a page with real text on it?

Yes. And it was the very last page! I was hoping there would be a blank page at the end, but Weiner hates me that way.

(And he'd probably even check that the paperback edition available at the time did not, in fact, have extra pages bound into it. That is the extent to which he hates me that way.)

If you pause that frame and zoom in, the text on the page is probably something to the effect of "MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! TAKE THAT, BOOK-LOVING FANS! Love, Weiner"

I told Beau that if someone did that to me, I would lose my mind and give that person a beat down.

why not the title page of the book?

Because the last page makes it less obvious the book has been mutilated and will be discovered long after he's gone. Except in my house; I read the end first.

Because the last page makes it less obvious the book has been mutilated and will be discovered long after he's gone. Except in my house; I read the end first.

You think it was that deliberate? I thought it was just Don not giving a shit.

Not really. Just looking at other possibilities in the generic. I'm totally of the opinion that Don is one of the most self-centered pricks I've ever met. Yet, you can see his unhappiness with so many things, but he can't stop being the jerk he is. I thought I saw him pause just a second before he tore that last page out, but that could be my wish fullfillment that Don would finally get a clue and quit being a total ass.

Hec would know better than me on this, but I think it's really just in the last generation or so that we got the idea that it would be dangerous fashion death to let anyone other than a pro touch it.

Haircutting technique pre-Sassoon wasn't that complicated. That's why after Vidal it was called "precision" haircutting. Think of the scene in Roman Holiday where Audrey Hepburn's character gets her hair cut. The guy just back combs it a bit and then whacks it off.

The emphasis was much more on styling than cutting back then. (There are some exceptions - razor cutting was already established by the early sixties. Layering for women's hair became common in the early fifties with the advent of the Italian Cut. But even then most women had their hair permanently waved which obviated the need for precise lines. The emphasis on cutting technique then was getting the layers even because that affected how the hair would set.)

You think it was that deliberate? I thought it was just Don not giving a shit.

I think it was deliberate. He wants to disappear again, hence waiting until no one was around to make that call.

I also thought it was a really deliberate contrast to his sending the book at the beginning and having written the inscription at the beginning.

Oh, and aside, I loved the choice of "What'll I Do?" as the song playing as Don's luggage was delivered to the apparently deserted (at least for the moment) house.

But I'm totally with Hec-- he has to return at some point. The question is, when, exactly, and what's he going to find when he does come back?

That's why after Vidal it was called "precision" haircutting.

Did Mary Quant have one of the first Vidal cuts or was hers simply attributed to her?

Did Mary Quant have one of the first Vidal cuts or was hers simply attributed to her?

They were close friends and aesthetic allies. She wasn't the first one to sport a Sassoon cut, but was one of the most prominent early adopters.

There's a really cool book about the swinging sixties in London titled Ready Steady Go with detailed backstories on all the players in Soho and Chelsea. This is back when Terrence Stamp and Michael Caine were the to It Boys of London and pulled more birds than Gene Simmons or Wilt Chamberlain could ever imagine.

It's by far the best cultural history of that time and era.