In this publicity image released by NBC, Laura Benanti portrays Carol-Lynne in a scene from "The Playboy Club," a drama set in the early 1960s.
Posted on 09/04/2011 3:03:51 PM PDT by SmithL
The fun and fireworks have been almost completely drained from the newly moderate, sensible (read: boring) Board of Supervisors - but never fear. The only-in-San Francisco legislation those at Fox News love to rip us for lives on, thanks to the city's lesser known but always creative commissions.
The latest example is the Commission on the Status of Women's resolution demanding that NBC cancel its new TV show "The Playboy Club" and replace it with a show that "depicts women's substantive achievements."
Set in 1960s Chicago, the show follows the mobsters and bunnies who, um, intermingled at Hugh Hefner's famed Playboy Club. Its website says it's set to premiere Sept. 19, but perhaps NBC honchos are too busy firing the actresses and burning their bunny suits to announce they've scrapped the show because seven commissioners in San Francisco voted they should.
Or maybe not.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
I think it will fall all by itself..
They don’t like women very much in San Fran Sicko.
Ratings will sag.
Yeah, because THAT'S a real crowd pleaser. Don't flame me; I'm a woman, but a program like "women's substantive achievements" is stupid because its premise is surprise that women have any "substantive achievements." These commissions have way too much time on their hands and way too little to do.
Skank vision, lets teach the little girls to be sluts!!
At least ABC changed the name of “Good Christian B&^%es” but it should have been renamed with Black or Muslim in the title to see if they’d still air it.
Lets make sure to tell little girls that to get anywhere in life they should take their clothes off and sleep around.
Wonderful job NBC!!
Which I presume is abbreviated cSOW? :=)
I had to laugh about a show that “depicts women’s substantive achievements”, too. Sort of like Lifetime? The channel that has movie after movie after movie showing an abusive husband, an abusive boyfriend, an abusive male boss... you get the point.
I’ve seen pictures of Playboy bunnies, even worked for a time with a former bunny. Looking at their figures I would say they have “substantial achievements.”
“Lets make sure to tell little girls that to get anywhere in life they should take their clothes off and sleep around.”
I don’t have a problem with this show as long as it is presented in a “historical” way - the same way I don’t have a problem with Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn being read in school. Those who pooh-pooed Mad Men as escapist men’s TV, soon found out that the series really showed that “the good old days” weren’t really that good for either sex.
Pornographers should be shot in the face IMO
They are nothing but a cancer on society.
I have, as a former Nielsen Ratings programmer, tried to figure out what the target demographic is that this program is being aimed at, and failing. The best that I can come up with is nostalgic baby-boomer middle income males who once bought Playboy as young teenagers and hid it under their mattress. Mom’s NEVER look there, right?
Instead of dictating what the rest of the country can or cannot watch, why don’t they come up with their own idea and try to sell it?
Why do you want to shoot me?
Is any of that 'substance' of a non-organic variety? Or to put into a different Hollywood context of the mid-1960s, something that would heal a Horta?
“cancel its new TV show “The Playboy Club” and replace it with a show that “depicts women’s substantive achievements.”
Coming from the government that is censorship and the violation of the 1st Amendment.
One wonders why we cannot have both on television. Seems most shows at least 99% of commercials show men incapable of doing anything and women superhero, cops, senior executives there by ability not the good old boys club are all over the place.
One of my high school sweethearts went on to work
for the Chicago club, she definately had attributes,
among them a brain for business which she put to
use with the contacts she made there.
Exactly. Granted, the contributions of women to many areas have been overlooked, but...surprise, surprise, so have those of men, blacks and any number of other groups.
This woman (who some may recognize)
shares the patent for an extremely important concept that is used extensively in dozens of other patents, and is ubiquitous in our society. It is a patent for a secret communication system awarded in 1942.
Today, this is used in hundreds, if not thousands of applications that touch our lives and we don't even know it. It was a a patent for frequency hopping, and lay dormant until the Cuban Missile Crisis, where it was used for the first time. Now, it is used in WIFI and cell telephones.
99.999% of the public have no idea of this technology, but more have heard of her name: Hedy Lamarr (her name at the time was Hedy Kiesler Markey...:)
She is living proof that someone, even a famous person who happens to be a woman, can have her contributions to an important technology hidden in obscurity.
hid it under their mattress. Mom’s NEVER look there, right?
If it hadn’t been for what was under my mattress my parents
would never have seen porno.
I used to ramble the woods and down by the river the
County used to dump all the confiscated books and mags
from their raids.
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