The sixth season of Mad Men (Lionsgate, 15) – still, for this writer's money, the richest and most penetrating drama on telly today – is out on DVD tomorrow and sees its tortured ensemble of ad-makers and the women who don't exactly love them (the wonderful Linda Cardellini is this year's standout) battling late-60s counterculture.
"Some may see the tortured existence of the musician as one where he's practicing like hell and being alone," he said.
We can't see the tortured man's face, but we watch him squirm and hear his moans, along with those of several other restrained men and women.
Obviously, you want to see the tortured love affairs, the midlife crises, the salvations; these songs pretend to hold them at bay by placing a mute totem in the foreground.
In addition to family and friends, there was a St .John's cadre including Carnesecca, Jack Kaiser, Dick McGuire, Ron Rutledge, Lou Roethel, Dick Engert and Gus Alfieri, along with the New York broadcasters Spencer Ross and John Andariese, and Artie Benoit, Alan's backcourt partner at Jamaica, who saw the tortured side of his friend.
Or maybe — and this is the theory I prefer, if only because the implications are less appalling — today's tear-jerkers are a new example of an age-old fascination with other people's problems, the modern equivalent of going to the opera to see a tortured Tosca leap to her death from the Castel Sant' Angelo.
I was not tortured but I saw people getting tortured and I heard their screams.
Everyone will see the aggrieved, tortured faces of people who lost loved ones.
If something isn't your object of desire, its appeal can remain obscure; all you see is the tortured lover, endlessly reaching.
If that sounded simple for a designer who has sometimes been seen as a tortured soul, this charming collection saw Mr. Chalayan going back to his roots, but in full flower.
