Pour commencer la chanson est Zou bisou bisou.
The first OH, MY GOD! tv in a good long while!
They are back, tan , rested and ready to ..... well, be pissy, have grudge power sex, denigrate African Americans and WEAR lots of COLOR! Welcome to the Summer of 1966 kiddies, I don't think we are in Kansas anymore. Camelot has been left by the wayside as we barrel down the highway in our not -safe -at -any -speed Corvair headlong into Woodstock....
The Rapture of Don Draper
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40 is the new 60
40 is the new 60
Our anti-hero has gone mod or mad, one of the two ( maybe both ). The perfect Hitchcockian ice blond Betty has been replaced with the red hot Simone Signoret. The 2.3 kids in happy Dick Van Dyke Show land in Ossining have become the best Apartment in New York City since those Friends kids gave up that rent control in the Village, AND they have really really nice neighbors that don't care if you have a band. DON IS HAPPY ??!?! How are we supposed to deal with this , and how did he get this way ? Can it last ?!? Do we want it too ? Don ran, as fast as he could from that world of Betty and the house and kids, doing everything in his power ( sleeping with your kids teacher?!? )to get out. Trapped, scared, haunted by Dick Whitman, he did everything to escape what he always thought he wanted. Living only for work back in the day , well work and drinking - He seemed just fine last night to have a day with with nothing on his calandar all he needed was a most NSFW flash of his wife's boobies! ( he and the wife all but making a Dick Whitman joke!! )
Don and Dick both turned the big 4-0, to painful for the TWENTY FIVE year old new model Mrs. Draper to even say the word, could she be more different (on the surface) from Betty! Forty is 1966 was not the skateboard riding, long short and hoodie wearing 40 of 2012, this was hard core starched buttoned down adult hood. Over the hill etc. AND, and as a gazillion gallons of ink and film have told us about to run face first into the second American Revolution' because like it or not Don, Madison Ave and all of the world, HERE COME THE BABY BOOMERS, nothing would ever , ever be the same.
You got a whiff of this when the bean man wanted something hip and new, " we want beans " on a protest sign. It is night and day in the ad world , from what Obie Award winning Don was to where the world is going:
Don and Dick both turned the big 4-0, to painful for the TWENTY FIVE year old new model Mrs. Draper to even say the word, could she be more different (on the surface) from Betty! Forty is 1966 was not the skateboard riding, long short and hoodie wearing 40 of 2012, this was hard core starched buttoned down adult hood. Over the hill etc. AND, and as a gazillion gallons of ink and film have told us about to run face first into the second American Revolution' because like it or not Don, Madison Ave and all of the world, HERE COME THE BABY BOOMERS, nothing would ever , ever be the same.
You got a whiff of this when the bean man wanted something hip and new, " we want beans " on a protest sign. It is night and day in the ad world , from what Obie Award winning Don was to where the world is going:
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| Coca Cola mid-50's / mid-60's "Things GO better with Coke", the world was on the go! |
THE REST
in day glo colors!
It was 18 months for us, but less than a year for the folks there in MMW ( mad men world ) Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce has survived the exit of Lucky Strike staying afloat with Butler shoes foot ware and hopefully Heinz Beans, things are not great, but they are goodish. Somewhat of a secretary shortage - and loads of overtime, but we are on the upturn.
Once BMOC Roger the old man of the story is left to pick off fresh Pete's leftovers, poaching leads and meetings at will, luckily for him he is sitting on all his daddy's hard earned money, so life is not really all that tough. Just like all the other kids there in the sixties, change and the good life can not come fast enough for old Don Draper Pete Campbell, riding the OTHER line of Metro North home to someplace north of Greenwich proper ( a full acre! ) , to a very Draper like Kitchen and a once lovely wife who will now be - HORRORS - be seen in public in a house coat.
Peggy is still Our Miss Peggy, still Protégé to Don , still with the Catholic weigh of the world on her shoulders but with an all the cute lefty boyfriend, and from the looks of things THE creative dept there at SCDP, and what? Boss of the Don's wife? That all seemed very awkward even from today's vantage... not seeing that work out...
Joan is home, with the baby,( the full frontal baby! ) but soon to be roaring back... seems she and Roger are all just fine living in the great state of denial.
Lane had somewhat creepy 1060's very English phone sex. Stan still, thankfully, wears those tight shirts to the office. Harry is not the office super creep - and that is saying a lot.
We did not see the Francis' this episode, but we did see the outside of their HUGE new/ old home in very swell RYE, NY. Previews of catching up with them next week.
I had it in my mind the whole time that is was only 1965 and I said to Neil, " NOT that I would ever doubt Matthew Weiner, but I just do not think skirts were THAT short in '65... So, it's 1966 Design and fashion, all on crack . In was in for about 30 seconds till something new came along. Out with Betty's foundation garments, in with pure Mary Quant , I mean Megan's dress was really as short as a dress can go and not come with stirrups.
Negros, Gays and marijuana - all in one person! Things very much are changing, and yes, he was made fun of, but Ken " aspiring writer" Cosgrove was thrilled to go out and smoke a little "tea " with him. ( which seemed to surprise no one,but they had to " hide it from Don ".
Their apartment was a send up, caricature of everything the mid sixties was. I am looking everywhere for a screen cap of them sitting on the floor above the sunken living room, it was sublime! One thing that is a little shocking is how much that is all back in fashion right now, if not the over the top home look then very much the more staid office look. This is the current cover shot of the Mitchell Gold - Bob Williams site
Over look the white carpet, ( not really sure myself about THAT kind of sexual politics in 1966 or 2012, but I am , as always basically a Puritan ( with feminine wilds so lost on me ) but look at these clean lines, the " Happy Modern " the EXACT lamp, even dots... everything old is new again
So back they are, our Sunday nights have meaning again post Downton Abbey, and change is in the air! The time till next Sunday will go by slower than the last 18 months! More to come if I come across more photos....
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| smoking and a baby, who knew?!? |
Lane had somewhat creepy 1060's very English phone sex. Stan still, thankfully, wears those tight shirts to the office. Harry is not the office super creep - and that is saying a lot.
We did not see the Francis' this episode, but we did see the outside of their HUGE new/ old home in very swell RYE, NY. Previews of catching up with them next week.
The Party
or
Where was Holly Golightly ?
Negros, Gays and marijuana - all in one person! Things very much are changing, and yes, he was made fun of, but Ken " aspiring writer" Cosgrove was thrilled to go out and smoke a little "tea " with him. ( which seemed to surprise no one,but they had to " hide it from Don ".
Their apartment was a send up, caricature of everything the mid sixties was. I am looking everywhere for a screen cap of them sitting on the floor above the sunken living room, it was sublime! One thing that is a little shocking is how much that is all back in fashion right now, if not the over the top home look then very much the more staid office look. This is the current cover shot of the Mitchell Gold - Bob Williams site
So back they are, our Sunday nights have meaning again post Downton Abbey, and change is in the air! The time till next Sunday will go by slower than the last 18 months! More to come if I come across more photos....
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