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'Pan Am' and 'The Playboy Club': Obsessive, Miniaturist and Yes, Sexist
by Stephanie Earp, posted Aug 23rd 2011 5:00PM

I always thought I was a fan of period pieces -- 'Merchant & Ivory,' HBO's 'Rome', Austen adaptations -- but I wish the '60s would go away. Not the '60s as they happened, the '60s as they've been reconstructed by pop culture. Nostalgia for this version is so tedious. The clothes are so specific and so binding, the important historical figures and dates are capital-"I" important, and the rampant inequality on display is plain old gross.
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