Last season (now available as a fancy four-DVD set from Lionsgate), Don pitched his crew on a new-fangled slide projector — the carousel. “Nostalgia,” he explained, is “the pain of an old wound.” Or, as he tells them this season, “You are the product. It’s about you feeling something.” And then, about the unwashed masses: “They can’t do what we do. And they hate us for it.” But we love you, Don Draper.
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The seductive new drama series Mad Men re-creates the beginning of the advertising industry’s shiny modern era of bullshit.
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This Sunday is the premiere of the third season of Mad Men (AMC, 10 pm), the Emmy-winning show that made fans of good television have to figure out where AMC was on their basic-cable schedules.
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Let’s face it. There’s always an unpleasant macho subtext in intra-corporate rivalries.
- February 6, 2006
Excellent day for hearing both points of view or getting a smorgasbord of input.
- After-dinner nuts
The Christmas season careered to a finish January 5 at Concord Academy with yet another Nutcracker, sort of, the first complete Boston performance of David Parker’s Nut/Cracked.
- Flirting with Beethoven
It is said that Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) “got around.” Even today, the old dog arouses the interests of performers and seduces listeners.
- November 24, 2006
Weekly forecast
- The Bladerunners
Freestyle music is an overlooked chapter of dance music. The Bladerunners, "Work It, Shake It (remix edit)" (mp3)
- Big trouble in little Carolina
I must have missed that chapter of The Purpose-Driven Life.
- Contact points
Diane Arvanites-Noya and Tommy Neblett’s new duet seemed to be a philosophical model for the other new works on the program.
- April 13, 2006
Waning moon in Libra; Passover begins. A good day to get your hair cut, although Cancer and Capricorn may be on edge and unable to express themselves clearly. Libra has lots of ideas about how to explain things more clearly, but finding ears that listen clearly is the challenge (hint: try air signs). An evening void-of-course moon could make for scheduling mishaps, particularly for Aries or other impetuous signs. VOC 6:53 pm to 1:08 am.
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