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The last few eps of Masters of Sex (season 2). Really fascinating show that started off being about two people doing a study on human sexuality and ended up being this really wide-ranging thing about US society in the fifties and sixties. Without being all sort of costume-drama and "Hey, look at these weird alien people and the crazy things they believed... but look how cool the clothes are!". It' not perfect, but it's been really different and interesting. Roll on season 3, and kudos to whoever commissioned it. I can't think of anything comparable, where there's been such a long-running series that was based on actual people and events. Plus Michael Sheen is just the best British actor of his generation, and Lizzy Caplan is so brilliant as Virginia Johnson. And created and mostly written by women!

Plugs the gap until we get the last eps of Mad Men, anyway...

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Halloween IV. Donald Pleasance I always liked. Ever since the Great Escape. He was a good actor. I think that may have been the last one he was in but I could be wrong.

He was in 5 and 6 as well.

My favourite role of his is in "Wake in Fright", an Australian film where he plays a very convincing Australian drunk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26w4Zu7_NTE

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