Pinboard: bookmarks for m.leddy tagged 'television'

“Watching Mad Men is not like watching a television show set in the 1960s; it’s like watching a television show that has been made to appear to be set in the 1960s.”

MadMen television
9 weeks ago by M.Leddy

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The picky ones

Jewelers everywhere advertising themselves as “le difficile.”

advertising television
march 2012 by M.Leddy

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Chris Matthews disappoints

Every time I think I should be more generous toward Chris Matthews, he disappoints me anew.

film television
february 2012 by M.Leddy

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Domestic aspirations

A plaintive line from Modern Family.

life television
february 2012 by M.Leddy

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I envy Mary Richards

“I have been watching The Mary Tyler Moore Show on Me-TV, and I must confess: I envy Mary Richards.”

technology telephone television typewriter
january 2012 by M.Leddy

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Hazel Frederick

Perhaps the most famous television bystander of all.

television
january 2012 by M.Leddy

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Art imitates life imitates art (M*A*S*H)

M*A*S*H in east-central Illinois and Infinite Jest.

DavidFosterWallace television
january 2012 by M.Leddy

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Television antennas and other relics

Diane Schirf is remembering relics.

dowdyworld technology television
january 2012 by M.Leddy

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They don’t write ’em like this anymore

A bit of over-the-top dialogue from Murder, She Wrote.

television
december 2011 by M.Leddy

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Stubbs’s Corollary

“Time is infinite. Television is not. Thus there are reruns.”

television time
december 2011 by M.Leddy

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Telephone exchange names on screen: Naked City

Looking up the life on the man who's name is on a sign, Loft for Rent.

signage telephone television
december 2011 by M.Leddy

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Telephone exchange names on screen: Naked City

GRamercy 7–9166.

telephone television
november 2011 by M.Leddy

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SafeLite, SafeLite, SafeLite

A commercial (or series of commercials) sometimes gets in my head — and my brain begins to dissolve.

advertising television
october 2011 by M.Leddy

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Word of the day: omnibus

A word, a television show.

television words
september 2011 by M.Leddy

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Recently updated

Anthony Bourdain’s hilarious commentary on Food Network stars.

food television
september 2011 by M.Leddy

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Breakfast with the Food Network

If life were like the Food Network.

food television
september 2011 by M.Leddy

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“Twenty years is a long time”

Like a quarter of a century!

television time
august 2011 by M.Leddy

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Orange Crate Art: A Great American Dream Machine thought

1971 is a long time ago.

television
august 2011 by M.Leddy

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The Great American Dream Machine

A fortieth-anniversary special.

television
august 2011 by M.Leddy

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Lucille Ball

Born 100 years ago today.

television
august 2011 by M.Leddy

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Fred Astaire on What’s My Line?

From 1955 and 1959.

film television
july 2011 by M.Leddy

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Ebert on Murdoch

“This man has done more to harm journalism in America and Britain than any other person.”

media newspapers television
july 2011 by M.Leddy

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Lieutenant Columbo’s notebook

It’s an Ampad Citadel.

notebooks television
july 2011 by M.Leddy

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Romney Wordsworth, obsolete

Fifty years ago, a world without librarians and libraries was the stuff of a totalitarian nightmare. Now it seems that we’re closer to living in The Twilight Zone.

books library television
july 2011 by M.Leddy

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Fred Steiner (1923–2011)

He wrote the theme music for Perry Mason (and much else).

music television
june 2011 by M.Leddy

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CBS Evening News: Attack of the Clones

Bob Schieffer meets Scott Pelley

television
june 2011 by M.Leddy

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Chris Matthews explains it all for you

“Sex is generally between two people in private, you know, in some room somewhere.”

television
june 2011 by M.Leddy

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Plus ça change

Scott Pelley and Bob Schieffer look awful lot alike.

news television
june 2011 by M.Leddy

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Katie Couric and Exxon Mobil

Katie Couric, corporate spokesperson

television
may 2011 by M.Leddy

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Newton Minow, fifty years later

Fifty years after “a vast wasteland,” Newton Minow proposes six goals for the next fifty years of communications technology.

culture television technology
march 2011 by M.Leddy

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“Margaret Disowns Her Family”

Not your father’s Father Knows Best.

culture television
january 2011 by M.Leddy

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Thought for the day

Infinite Jest-inspired

DavidFosterWallace television
december 2010 by M.Leddy

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Edward Kean (1924-2010)

"Chief writer, philosopher, and theoretician" of The Howdy Doody Show

childhood television
august 2010 by M.Leddy

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Domestic comedy

Floyd who?

domesticcomedy television
august 2010 by M.Leddy

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Infinite Jest, television

Television nostalgia

DavidFosterWallace fiction memory nostalgia television
july 2010 by M.Leddy

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Perry Mason and John Keats

TV dialogue

JohnKeats poetry television
june 2010 by M.Leddy

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Domestic comedy

Drawn from life

domesticcomedy television
may 2010 by M.Leddy

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Betty White, "Live from New York"

As seen on The Golden Girls

television
may 2010 by M.Leddy

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Bill Moyers on public broadcasting

For citizens, not consumers

television
may 2010 by M.Leddy

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Duke Ellington, 1953

A hilarious appearance on What's My Line

DukeEllington music television
may 2010 by M.Leddy

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As seen on TV

Funny YouTube video

humor television
april 2010 by M.Leddy

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Rachel Maddow makes cocktails

On television

RachelMaddow television
april 2010 by M.Leddy

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Fred Rogers and Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh loves Fred Rogers

FredRogers television
march 2010 by M.Leddy

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How to behave in the supermarket

A demonstration

shopping television
march 2010 by M.Leddy

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The Office on Hulu

The BBC Office

RickyGervais television
march 2010 by M.Leddy

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Card-file steals scene in TV debut

Card-file, from Father Knows Best

dowdyworld indexcards stationery television
january 2010 by M.Leddy

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Bill Madison on 3-D TV

Skeptical and funny

television
january 2010 by M.Leddy

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Father Knows Best Christmas episode

Strange, stranger

Christmas dowdyworld television
december 2009 by M.Leddy

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“A Woman in the House”

A very strange episode of Father Knows Best

dowdyworld television
october 2009 by M.Leddy

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Soupy Sales (1926–2009)
television
october 2009 by M.Leddy

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Mad Men search results

What Google thinks of Mad Men

Google MadMen television
october 2009 by M.Leddy

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"Betty's Graduation"

Suprisingly poignant dialogue from Father Knows Best

dowdyworld life television impermanence time
october 2009 by M.Leddy

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I Love Lucy

A television marathon

television
october 2009 by M.Leddy

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Reading Rainbow ends

After 26 years

books childhood reading television
september 2009 by M.Leddy

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You know you’re really an English major of a certain age when . . .

you immediately recognize T.S. Eliot’s Complete Poems and Plays: 1909–1950 (1971) on the bookshelf behind the interviewees on MSNBC’s Hardball.

books poetry television tseliot
august 2009 by M.Leddy

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Mad Men yourself

Turn yourself into a Mad Men person

culture MadMen television
august 2009 by M.Leddy

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Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite commenting on Richard Nixon's resignation speech, as seen on a Washington, D.C. television set, August 1974. A photograph by Gjon Mili.

culture photography television
july 2009 by M.Leddy

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Lady Elaine's can

A double-entendre in a Mister Rogers opera: mild, charming, deliberate

BettyAberlin FredRogers music opera television
june 2009 by M.Leddy

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Real <s>housewives</s> fifth-graders

The Real Housewives of New York makes better sense if you think of the cast as fifth-graders.

culture television
june 2009 by M.Leddy

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Ah, dialogue

A loopy bit of Bonanza dialogue