WHAT A DRAG IT IS GETTING OLD
Mad Men
S5-e3
TEA LEAVES
Well what do you know, it turns out that on July 2, 1966 The Rolling Stones did play the tennis stadium in Forest Hills - and just to set the date in stone Pete Fox , " a talented right fielder for Boston and Detroit" did die at 57 on July 5th, AND there was ( is? ) a White Castle on Queens Blvd, just over the bridge - The Sixties have at last, become THE SIXTIES on Mad Men. The BOOMERS have landed.
If you are a longtimer here at the k+b, you know that in the beginning, in those heady days of Barack v Hillary there was a ton of cyber ink spilt on g-g-g-enerations. The Boomers and the X-ers and the Y-ers and the oh so new dystopia loving millennials [ we sad few little Jonesers don't even get a mention! ] . In 2008/12 they are all tossed in the blender and mixed together. NOT so in that gauzy summer of 1966. This was the first beach front in the war that was to define the second half of the 20th century. What was " get a haircut you damn hippy " has today become " fill that doughnut hole in my medicare drug coverage you damn whippersnapper" .
Tea leaves, reading the future, pretty darn easy from that future, not so then. We know what all happens ( the boomers won ) but it hit that Greatest Generation like a ton of bricks. ME FIRST was an anathema to a culture that had the pain of the depression and the sacrifice of WWll . Don Draper met the Baby Boom Generation last night, and he is worried......
Under My Thumb
Two years pre JULIA we have the lovely Dawn ( NOT Donna as the NYT said this morning - I full out HATE when they get something blatantly wrong - I demand they be perfect , always ! ) working as Don's secretary we KNOW he wont fool around with her...We now get to add racism to the sexism at SCDP! and they are on their way to hiring a full blown Woody Allen clone of an outer borough Jew .Times they are a changing indeed.
Things seem to be coasting along fine, Mohawk is back, and the Heinz people seem happy - if only a little full of them selves, wanting the Rolling Stones to sing about beans, the way they did in 1963 about Rice Krispies.
But " so square you have corners " Don and Harry just know that they can do a little business back stage that hot summer night, talk to the lads as they casually walk to their tour bus. Sit down, have a drink or two, toss a few ideas around ( Did Don learn NOTHING when he took Sally to Shea to see the Beatles ?!?!?). Don meets youth, Don questions youth - Don is AT LAST compared to Darrin Stephens, tinkle, tinkle, tinkle: Don is confused and worried! NOT a good thing for an ad man to be.....
Harry on the other hand is stoned to the bone, going on and on about naked Charleston Heston and downing twenty white castles in front of his building, so so not wanting to go back to not being hip and young. ( which by signing the Trade Winds, proved he was so not either )
"Don't trust anyone over 30", and Don was last there ten years ago..and now forced to spend the 4th of July out at some damn Shindig! on Fire Island ( more gays! ) Now here is a shocker - Don, who must have what, slept in his cloths ?- has his mind changed by a WOMAN! Like I read somewhere this morning , Betty could not even get him to sleep at home five nights a week, and Megan got him to brave holiday traffic and take the ferry out to FI for a party, this is a milestone in Draperology for sure! Again the power of youth! ( and a taught bare midriff )
MOTHERS LITTLE HELPER
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Mrs. Francis , the younger : be careful what you ask for. Maybe happiness is not a creepy looking Richardsonian mansion in VERY posh Rye, New York. Looks as if Betty is bored and turning to her true friend Mr. Carbohydrate for some companionship. I am LOVING the internet this morning, as loads and loads of tv reporting straight men go on and on about the state of women in 1966. The horror of sexy sexy January in a fat suit! My only issue with it was, Doctors gave out diet pills and Valium to women like they were in penny gumball machines in front of the Woolworth's - seriously. We all liked the story line of Betty possibly having a thyroid problem , with REAL tea leaves! - because no beautiful woman gets fat just on her own! But they do and did.
A little bit of a twist of the knife as we cut from two kiddies and some hard core foundation garments trying to get Betty zipped for a night out with the Junior League to twenty six year old Megan easily sliding into her dress . I did think that Don was not super happy with her actions at a client dinner - but is just too dazzled ( or tired ) to care all that much. (Betty was perfect at schmoozing the men. See Conrad Hilton in Rome...)
Mothers and their daughters, and issues to come - "aren't you going to eat that" , as Sally comes into her own, off to watch the brand new Dark Shadows as Mommy finishes her ice cream.
One quicky that is exploding all over the twitterverse and on here is the fact that Henry Francis called GEORGE Romney "a clown"....... if the shoe fits. Tagg-bot is all the upset.
One quicky that is exploding all over the twitterverse and on here is the fact that Henry Francis called GEORGE Romney "a clown"....... if the shoe fits. Tagg-bot is all the upset.
UNDER MY THUMB
" When is everything going to get back to normal " asks the way too perplexed Rodger after getting a beat down from the back to form nasty Pete. Sorry to tell you pal, never. A brand new normal is upon the world. You all came home and bred like bunnies after that war, and now " normal" is what ever these kids want to make it. 2012, and it still is.....
Jon Hamm directed the show last night, and I thought it was just a wonderful job, not that me and the Wanker know a whole lot about directing. January Jones as I have said before is way way with child as filming started and post baby weight into the series, so the fat story is going to play on for a while. " What, have her bring in the groceries for an entire season ? " no, just fat. Not as many fireworks as last week, but that is expected. I am just happy there is a show that Neil and I can watch together and AND I get to talk about it for hours on end the next morning.
The Fashions when I find some stills, one KILLER dress from Megan, and we could spend days on Betty's much loved house coat alone.
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