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latebloomer
I'm looking forward to tonight's return of Mad Men. I could see them including Altamont...Don Draper wandering around, viewing first hand "the end of the sixties." The event would tie in well with the last season of the show.
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latebloomer
I'm looking forward to tonight's return of Mad Men. I could see them including Altamont...Don Draper wandering around, viewing first hand "the end of the sixties." The event would tie in well with the last season of the show.
Yes, Don has hired Melvin Belli as his divorce lawyer, and Melvin tells him that Altamont will be a great opportunity to see the youth culture up close. Once there, Don meets Forrest Gump who's passing around boxes of chocolates spiked with acid. Then Don and Forrest accidentally knock over Sonny Barger's motorbike, and are beaten to death by one of the Angels. You see the Angel's face, and it's the real Don Draper, who didn't die in Korea after all. And the show ends with Mick Jagger watching the whole thing on the projector.
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latebloomer
I'm looking forward to tonight's return of Mad Men. I could see them including Altamont...Don Draper wandering around, viewing first hand "the end of the sixties." The event would tie in well with the last season of the show.
Yes, Don has hired Melvin Belli as his divorce lawyer, and Melvin tells him that Altamont will be a great opportunity to see the youth culture up close. Once there, Don meets Forrest Gump who's passing around boxes of chocolates spiked with acid. Then Don and Forrest accidentally knock over Sonny Barger's motorbike, and are beaten to death by one of the Angels. You see the Angel's face, and it's the real Don Draper, who didn't die in Korea after all. And the show ends with Mick Jagger watching the whole thing on the projector.
...spoiler alert!! ><
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1969 was a great year creatively for the Stones, but on a personal/human level, it was pretty rough. There was Brian's troubles and death, Marianne's coma, economical troubles with Allen Klein, the Altamont disaster (again, a pretty decent event on purely musical terms), the Hyde Park concert was shaky, Keith dabbled with heroin ...
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With the lead up to the final season of Mad Men, the Times has an article entitled, ‘Mad Men’ and Its Love Affair With ’60s Pop Culture. The whole read is interesting, especially for anyone who lived through that era. The writer goes through each of the seasons of the show, pointing out references like, The Twillight Zone, Frank O'Hara's poetry, Mark Rothko, Bye Bye Birdie, The Group, and, of course, The Rolling Stones. After each reference there is a link to an article that the Times published at that time.
Read the whole thing, if you have the time, it's fun. Here is the Stones section:
The Rolling Stones
England’s newest hit-makers really did perform at what was then the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium (now the West Side Tennis Club) in Queens on July 2, 1966, as part of an American tour to support the release of their album “Aftermath.” But Don and Harry didn’t get much satisfaction on their backstage trip to this concert, on a fool’s errand to see if Allen Klein, the notorious Stones manager, could be persuaded to let the band cut a jingle for Heinz baked beans. (“Heinz Is On My Side,” anyone?) Neither Klein nor any of the band members materialize, and a pair of young Stones fans reminds Don and Harry that time is not on their side. “None of you want any of us to have a good time, just ‘cause you never did,” one of them tells Don. “No,” Don replies, “we’re worried about you.”
[www.nytimes.com]