My brain needs some fiction reading and I'd like some recommendations based on my tastes in TV/Film: Mad Men, Quadrophenia, Good Fellas, The Krays, There Will Be Blood, Election, Spinal Tap, American Beauty, Eyes Wide Shut, Flashbacks of Fool, The Graduate, Rushmore.
Thanks!
posted by punkfloyd
on Apr 16, 2011 -
20 answers
Need help finding the glasses found in Don's office in Mad Men (as seen on the season 3 dvd/blu ray cover
here and
here).
Just want to buy them, assume similarity with these glasses, not price, is the priority.
posted by Patbon
on Jan 5, 2011 -
5 answers
Which recording of "Cup of Loneliness" is used at the end of Mad Men season 2 episode 12, "The Mountain King", and where can I get it?
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posted by teem
on Aug 8, 2009 -
3 answers
I have been watching the AMC series
Mad Men (set in NYC office setting around 1960) and it made me wonder. Just how accurately does it portray the professional workplace of the period? (Ubiquitous smoking, drinking, degrading comments to women and overt flirting, etc.). In particular, was it ever considered normal to keep a stocked bar in every office/conference room?
I realize things are exaggerated for TV and to contrast with today’s norms... but generally speaking was it really this bad back then? I guess I am looking for responses from those who are familiar with the TV show and worked in an office in this timeframe.
posted by punkfloyd
on Jul 16, 2009 -
38 answers
In Mad men episode 11 (the jet set) in season 2...what house is that in Palm Springs? I'm an architecture geek and desperately need to know. The best I can figure is that its the
Kaufman House...but it's not quite right. I'm resigned to the fact that its some backlot set.
posted by badkarmaboy
on Jan 13, 2009 -
2 answers
