Comments on: I miss Nora Ephron

By: Caturday Heroines « Sky Dancing

Caturday Heroines « Sky Dancing — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:03:28 +0000

[...] Historiann on Nora Ephron…. I highly recommend clicking on the first link in her post, which I’ve linked here too for your convenience: Now I will really miss her. [...]

By: Nora Ephron, 1941-2012 : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:37:17 +0000

[...] Now I will really miss her. [...]

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:34:10 +0000

On the subject of people who were adults in the 1960s, my mother won’t watch Mad Men — she says she tried, but it was just too painful.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:26:25 +0000

Kathie and Frogprincess: thanks for the other reviews. But I gotta say: TR’s review is a really funny takedown, so everyone should click on the link above and head over to her place.

You will NOT believe it, but the Mattachine Society makes a(n incredibly awkward and improbable) guest appearance!

By: Tenured Radical - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Tenured Radical - The Chronicle of Higher Education — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:29:42 +0000

[...] got out of the salt mines early today, and the first thing I did was read Historiann, who made a great catch on Nora Ephron’s response to the new Mad Men rip-off, The Playboy Club (stay tuned for Pan [...]

By: Kathie

Kathie — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:44:22 +0000

The Los Angeles Times TV reviewer, Mary McNamara, also had a good review of this show, in which she referred to “the kitschification of sexism.” She often has thoughtful reviews; this one of “The Playboy Club” is found at http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-et-playboy-club-20110917,0,7099840.story

And I also recommend the Gloria Steinem documentary, I thought it was very interesting.

By: thefrogprincess

thefrogprincess — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:35:46 +0000

So I read a lot of television criticism, and one of the interesting things is how one of my favorite critics, Daniel Feinberg, reports that the creators of this show believe that their show is a feminist one, an idea he takes great umbrage against. (He gets at some of this in his review. See http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/the-fien-print/posts/tv-review-nbcs-the-playboy-club )

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:53:05 +0000

Ephron descended from screen-writing parents, so I guess going (back) to Hollywood was a fairly natural thing for her. I read _Crazy Salad_, only in graduate school (off-reading list) and liked it. Maybe she’ll return more to the genre of the essay, a somewhat doomed art in the age of findusonfacebook and followusontwitter. Whooze us?

By: Perpetua

Perpetua — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:37:15 +0000

In contrast to the postfeminist offense that is the Playboy Club, the references to Steinem made me remember with great clarity watching the made for TV movie based on Steinem’s article, which aired in 1985. I have not seen it since, but almost 30 years later, I remember one scene where the Steinem character takes off her bunny custom to reveal the bruising on her abdomen caused by its extreme tightness. (Did I make that up? I really have not seen it since the 80s.) I was just struck by the contrast between the 80s approach – raising feminist consciousness! on network TV! – and 21st c false nostalgia trip. Sigh.

By: Tenured Radical

Tenured Radical — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:38:28 +0000

I recommend to all of your readers the short documentary on HBO about Steinem, where she describes what difficult and ill-paid labor being a Bunny was.

I taped the show last night, and you have moved me to watch it now: the previews suggested it wouldn’t be very good, and I was thinking of writing about it, but you scooped me Historiann!