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"Brokeback Mountain" and "Wuthering Heights" - both "one of a kind"?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 30, 2017, 03:56:12 pm ---I've never actually read Lewis, only read about Lewis, but I picked up the idea that he wrote pejoratively about small-town Middle America.
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Well, I guess I can't say for sure about his whole oeuvre. I read Main Street years on years ago, and it was pretty clearly Minnesota, as I recall, because it was snowy and the people were of Swedish descent, I think.
But I haven't read any of the others, and I always get him confused with Upton Sinclair.
--- Quote ---That would explain it. I don't get Starz.
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Oops, I guess it was Cinemax. Looks like you can go to their website and watch at least some episodes. I didn't investigate thoroughly enough to see whether they're all on there somewhere. But if you get a chance, you should try it -- I think you'd really like it.
http://www.cinemax.com/the-knick/
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 30, 2017, 07:29:49 pm ---Well, I guess I can't say for sure about his whole oeuvre. I read Main Street years on years ago, and it was pretty clearly Minnesota, as I recall, because it was snowy and the people were of Swedish descent, I think.
But I haven't read any of the others, and I always get him confused with Upton Sinclair.
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I gather Lewis' great subject was hypocrisy and small-mindedness in small-town America.
Sinclair Lewis = Main Street, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry
Upton Sinclair = The Jungle
--- Quote ---Oops, I guess it was Cinemax. Looks like you can go to their website and watch at least some episodes. I didn't investigate thoroughly enough to see whether they're all on there somewhere. But if you get a chance, you should try it -- I think you'd really like it.
http://www.cinemax.com/the-knick/
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Thanks. It was Cinemax. I just looked it up.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 30, 2017, 09:44:03 pm ---I gather Lewis' great subject was hypocrisy and small-mindedness in small-town America.
Sinclair Lewis = Main Street, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry
Upton Sinclair = The Jungle
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Thanks. I didn't quite mean I literally couldn't distinguish them. I meant I read one name and briefly think of the other. Upton Sinclair -- didn't he write about small-mindedness in small-town America? Sinclair Lewis -- didn't he expose horrific health practices in the meat-packing industry (or something like that -- I haven't read him)?
--- Quote ---Thanks. It was Cinemax. I just looked it up.
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Even if you can only watch some of the episodes it might be worth it. Yes, there are ongoing plotlines, but there are also stand-alone stories. If you happen to see the one where a woman walks into the hospital wearing glasses -- oh my God, let me know. That was possibly the most horrific one among a lot of horrific ones.
Or the one where Clive Owen checks himself into rehab (he's a brilliant doctor but also a cocaine addict -- that's established right at the beginning of the series) and they offer him a special medicinal cure developed by the Bayer Company (based on historical facts you may be familiar with, in your line of work, but it was news to me). Or the one where ... oh, but there are so many good ones.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 30, 2017, 11:28:31 pm ---Thanks. I didn't quite mean I literally couldn't distinguish them. I meant I read one name and briefly think of the other. Upton Sinclair -- didn't he write about small-mindedness in small-town America? Sinclair Lewis -- didn't he expose horrific health practices in the meat-packing industry (or something like that -- I haven't read him)?
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That's The Jungle.
--- Quote ---Even if you can only watch some of the episodes it might be worth it. Yes, there are ongoing plotlines, but there are also stand-alone stories. If you happen to see the one where a woman walks into the hospital wearing glasses -- oh my God, let me know. That was possibly the most horrific one among a lot of horrific ones.
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A lot of series seem to do that, these days. Even that Musketeers series that I'm obsessing over did that; each episode in each of the three series can stand alone, yet there is a plot line that runs through the whole series and is wrapped up in the last episode (I'm using series in the British sense here; we Yanks would call it a season). I've noticed the same thing in Bones (last episode of the series aired this week), Hawaii Five-O, and N.C.I.S.: New Orleans, although in the case of these three shows, the ongoing plot may not have lasted the entire season.
--- Quote ---Or the one where Clive Owen checks himself into rehab (he's a brilliant doctor but also a cocaine addict -- that's established right at the beginning of the series) and they offer him a special medicinal cure developed by the Bayer Company (based on historical facts you may be familiar with, in your line of work, but it was news to me). Or the one where ... oh, but there are so many good ones.
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Did they give him aspirin? I think I read somewhere outside of work that Bayer invented aspirin, but we really don't deal in medical history where I work.
This is another series that I've read about but never seen. There are too many notes shows and channels from which to choose. :(
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 27, 2017, 10:05:19 am ---
How was the Brontë movie?
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Just now getting back to you on this question. I was frankly PO'ed that four of the five headlining actors in the movie were male, in a film about the Brontës! What's up with that? The acting was overall very good and the scenery was spectacular. There wasn't much grittiness, at least not period grittiness.
It gets off to a very unpromising start but 17 minutes later picks up. One thing I did like was that there was no romantic pining after any Mr. Darcys. The Brontës were spinsters and they were okay with that. Their lives did not quite suffer the privations that the Austen characters did, although they all seemed to suffer and die from tuberculosis in the end.
I also was not ready for a three-hour movie, I thought it would be a one-hour first program of a series. Thus, I had to watch it in two parts.
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