FROM NEW YORK MAGAZINE’S FASHION DEPARTMENT. . .
Mad Men‘s Christina Hendricks. I believe this deserves three vas and a voom.
Television
THE DAVID CHASE PRESIDENCY
Time was you watched a TV drama, the whole thing got wrapped up in a hour. Perry Mason would meet a client, Dr. Kildare would get a case, Charlie would call the Angels, and sixty minutes later, everyone could go to bed. But in the eighties, things changed. In Wiseguy and Hill Street Blues and …
SO LONG, CAMERON
House has been one of my favorite television shows lo these many years, in no small measure thanks to the contributions of Jennifer Morrison, who plays the very smart, very moral, very pretty Dr. Cameron. Well, it appears Cameron has been bid sayonara. In Tuesday’s episode she left the hospital, left her husband (the never …
WONDERFUL `WICKED WIT’
Congratulations to Hank Rosenfeld, my friend and former colleague from Spy, who collaborated on The Wicked Wit of the West, which is a memoir-cum-biography of the great Hollywood screenwriter Irving Brecher, the author of two Marx Brothers movies (At the Circus and Go West), Meet Me in St. Louis, and Bye Bye Birdie!, and who …
HEAVYWEIGHT MATCH
Excellent argument between Lawrence O’Donnell and Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe today. I give a TKO to Lawrence on points, because he did a better job of keeping his cool, and because he’s my friend. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
MAD MEN BLUNDERS!
It is perhaps is an indication of how pathetic my life has become, but still. . . in Sunday’s episode of Mad Men, Don Draper is riding to work on the train when he is joined by his paramour, Suzanne Farrell. Don, obviously, is heading south to Manhattan from Ossining, and as he moves right …
MAD MEN ON MY STREET
I’m pretty sure I would have been a fan of Mad Men in any event, but the fact that Don and Betty Draper make their home in Ossining–one mere town over from Briarcliff Manor, where I have lived for twenty years–always made the show especially appealing to me. Last Sunday, however, when Betty and her …
SO SAY WE ALL
One of the more pleasant respites in what has proven to be a fairly challenging summer (thank goodness for the Yankees–so far) has been the discovery of Battlestar Galactica (above, the trailer for Season One). I am not sure if it was prejudice against the original series or prejudice against the Sci-Fi Channel, or some …
FORGET WHETHER VICK SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO PLAY–SHOULD TOM DELAY BE ALLOWED TO DANCE?
I’ll leave it to my friends in Philadelphia to decide how warmly to embrace Michael Vick; the spirit of forgiveness has never really been the City of Brotherly Love’s style, but if it’s worth a couple of touchdowns, I’m sure Iggle fans can learn to be warm and fuzzy. I am more impressed by the …
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THE SUMMER OF THE PENIS JOKE
You never can tell what a summer will be remembered for. The summer of 1975 got Jaws, the summer of 1916 got the Somme. One summer gets a hummable ditty from Mungo Jerry that will be played on the radio until the end of time, and another summer gets Hurricane Katrina. With about four weeks …