The trailer for Hugo doesn't give much hint of the movie's brilliance, but then, it may be that nothing except the movie itself could do that.
by KenAfter all the delays (about two years' worth), not to mention all the cost (the price tag we're hearing is "nearly $2.4 billion"), it's hard to believe that the day is finally here: the opening of the extension of the No. 7 line west and south from Times Square to 11th Avenue and 34th Street (last noted here).
One of the head-slapping features of MoMI's Mad Men exhibition, which closes Friday, is a re-assembly of two actual sets: the original Draper family kitchen (above) and Don's famous SCP office, each adorned with an adjacent screen showing a loop of scenes that took place on that set.by KenSpeaking of the re-assembled set of Don Draper's office in the Museum of the Moving Image's Mad Men
I'll Be Me, which had a limited theatrical release in 2014, makes its TV debut tonight on CNN.by KenThe post title isn't facetious.
Father's Day -- next Sunday, June 21 -- is your once-a-year chance to show Dad how you really feel.by KenWhen I shared the Museum of the Moving Image's horrific Mother's Day film lineup, I promised to return with the grisly details for the second half of the museum's celebration, "Horror Mother's Day and Father's Day." Unless you're lucky enough not to have e-mail,
I've posted a piece on last night's Mad Men finale, and the experience of watching it as part of an audience of enthusiasts, on my Sunday Classics blog. -- Ken#
I assumed we could get some sort of relevant clip from the Mad Men page of the AMC website, but right now it's a pile of worthless, stinking crap, at least on the browsers I have available as I write. (Confidential to Web designers who think all of their clients' potential users chase the latest browsers: Get your heads out of your butts, morons.
