Writitude, Part 3
An occasional gratitude list of writing that makes me glad.
1. Mad Men, season 1, episode 9 — in which Betty, the beautiful housewife, hoists a shotgun and takes aim at the neighbor’s pigeons.
2. Mad Men, season 1, episode 12 — which defines what it is to have an American identity, as expressed in “simpler” times.
3. The book of She Loves Me, the musical — whose music and lyrics (by the Fiddler on the Roof guys) are lovely, but whose book (by Joe Masteroff) is surpassingly unsentimental in its sentimentality.
4. Satan’s Alley — the “trailer” in Tropic Thunder for the faux film about two gay priests, courtesy of Robert Downey, Jr., Tobey Maguire, and Ben Stiller. You couldn’t have given your Brokeback Monastery a funnier title.
5. One Life to Live — I don’t know where they’re going with their Back-to-the-Future-on-steroids storyline, but I’m fascinated. And impressed.