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20 April 2013 3:00 PM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »

This spoof cable commercial from Extremely Decent Films will ring painfully true for anyone who sends off more than $100 each month to a cable provider. “You won’t like it, and there’s no other option,” explains the fresh-faced, braces-wearing deadpan narrator about the evils of media oligarchies:

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ExtremelyDecentFilms on YouTube Erika Alexander’s ‘Mad Men Uptown Saturday Night’ “Repo Man”  

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Phoenix – “Bankrupt!” Major Lazer – “Free the Universe” “Lullaby Renditions of the White Stripes (Rockabye Baby!)”  

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“Gathered Light: The Poetry of Joni Mitchell’s Songs” “The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir”  

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HBO “Sex and the City” Cookies  

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“BioShock Infinite” “Star Trek: The Video Game” Springpad   »

- Pat Saperstein

20 April 2013 3:00 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

This spoof cable commercial from Extremely Decent Films will ring painfully true for anyone who sends off more than $100 each month to a cable provider. “You won’t like it, and there’s no other option,” explains the fresh-faced, braces-wearing deadpan narrator about the evils of media oligarchies:

Plus…

Related Links:

Watch:

ExtremelyDecentFilms on YouTube Erika Alexander’s ‘Mad Men Uptown Saturday Night’ “Repo Man”  

Listen:

Phoenix – “Bankrupt!” Major Lazer – “Free the Universe” “Lullaby Renditions of the White Stripes (Rockabye Baby!)”  

Read:

“Gathered Light: The Poetry of Joni Mitchell’s Songs” “The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir”  

Taste:

HBO “Sex and the City” Cookies  

Play:

“BioShock Infinite” “Star Trek: The Video Game” Springpad   »

- Pat Saperstein

11 April 2013 10:14 AM, PDT | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »

Mad Men gets a lot of well deserved praise for so accurately capturing 1960s America. Creator Matthew Weiner has an uncanny sense of the characters' sensibilities, clothes, haircuts and language. But many people believe that the highly praised show falls down in the one area that defined the 1960s: race relations. Even before anti-Vietnam War protests heated up, civil rights was at the forefront of social change.(Remember, when it came to social-protest anthems, Bob Dylan wrote Blowin in the Wind in 1962, Neil Young wrote Ohio in 1970). The online magazine Slate ran an intriguing piece on April 10 that began: "Much has been made of Mad Men's tentative handling of racial tensions in the 1960s. The arrival of each new season brings the same anticipation that race may finally be brought to the forefront of the series."  Actress Erika Alaxander, an actress in The Cosby Show and Living Single, wrote a »

- Jon Friedman

3 items from 2013