Mad Men has always acted as a vicarious time machine in the first season, there was a definite ambiguity to the show’s critiques, mixed as they were with nostalgia for a world of gimlets and clear gender roles.
Joan had always emphasized the importance of discretion, and now she was locked into a different kind of secret: If she had screamed, she would have been office gossip, and no one would have called it rape anyway. And what made it particularly cruel was that her fiancé’s assault was a poisoned parody of the boss-secretary role-play that was her specialty, forced on her by someone who wanted to humiliate her for her history. Then in last week’s episode, Joan’s power turned against her. At once a real person and an iconographic cartoon, she was a retro Samantha Jones, a third-wave feminist before her time, eternally articulating one form of female power: the potent combination of an arched eyebrow and a tight green skirt.Īnd if there were a few cracks in that Jessica Rabbit veneer, if Joan’s power was dependent on pleasing powerful men, if there was something disturbing in her sudden veer toward marriage? Well, she still seemed like someone capable of handling anything, even the passage of time. For two seasons, Joan, played with wriggling brass by the excellent Christina Hendricks, has been the swizzle stick that stirred the series. If that sounds like an over-the-top way to talk about a fictional character, I can’t help it.
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And (Rivers) says if anyone has a problem with that, they can feel free to call her lawyer Clarence Darrow.Last Sunday, Joan was raped and everything changed. The prologue says if anyone takes anything in the book seriously (he or she) is an idiot. Rivers’ representative told CNN, “These are all funny jokes. Of course, this latest dust-up coincides with Rivers’ book, “Diary of a Mad Diva,” which was released on July 1. “This is the way I remind people about the Holocaust. 2 it is about the Holocaust,” she told HLN’s “Showbiz Tonight. The Anti-Defamation League slammed Rivers, calling the remark “vulgar and hideous,” but she said it was her way of getting people to talk.
“The last time a German looked this hot was when they were pushing Jews into the ovens,” Rivers said while appearing on the E! channel’s “Fashion Police” show. In March 2013 she refused to apologize for a joke she made about the dress “Project Runway” host Heidi Klum wore to the Academy Awards. Read the book … if you think that’s silly, wait to (sic) you see what I say about FDR and Eleanor!” Stop it already … and if you want to talk about ‘politically correct,’ I think this is a ‘politically incorrect’ attack on me because I’m old, Jewish, a woman and a ‘hetty’ – a heteosexual … and I plan to sue the reporter who, when he turned off his camera, tried to touch me inappropriately on the a** - luckily he hit my ankle. Take a look and go back to La Cage Au Follies (sic). She’s so attractive, tall, with a beautiful body, great face, does great makeup. A representative for Rivers released the following statement to CNN from the comic about her remarks to the photographer:
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