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Mad Men, The Eleanor Rigby Experiment
One of the most exciting elements of the latest season of Mad Men was how the series creator, Matthew Weiner, somehow scored the rights to broadcast an actual Beatles song on his show. The Beatles had never allowed their actual recordings to be directly featured in a television show, and have rarely allowed the privilege…
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Nancy Sinatra, You Only Live Twice, Mad Men Season Finale
Mad Men is a hell of a show. When it first premiered, I was intrigued because I loved the Sopranos, and knew that Matthew Weiner, one of that shows head writers, was behind its creation. At first I wasn’t hooked. I thought many of the characters were overly stylized and inauthentic. I also thought much…
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Elton John, The Measure of a Man, End Credits of Rocky V
Yesterday was July 4th, and the movie channel AMC celebrated by having a Rocky marathon. I’m a sucker for the Rocky movies. The original Rocky (1976) is clearly a masterpiece. It was subtle, bleak, realistic, hopeful, and filled with great original characters. Rocky II continues the tone of the first, but is more serialized and…