Movies for Friday, March 10, 2017

Today, Friday, March 10, 2017, we explore a sexually charged movie about a brutal murder, a television series about a 1960s advertising agency, and the hunt for a terrorist.


Basic Instinct (1992) stars Sharon Stone, born March
10, 1958, in a highly sexually charged tale of a
brutal murder.



Basic Instinct

Mad Men (2007 to 2015) (AMC) is a great
television series about an advertising
agency in the 1960s which starred Jon
Hamm, born March 10, 1971.  It won many
Emmy awards including Outstanding
Drama Series (in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) and
especially for episodes "Smoke Gets In Your
Eyes" (the pilot, in 2008), "Meditations In An
Emergency", "The Gold Violin" and "Shoot"
(in 2009), "Shut the Door, Have a Seat" and
"Souvenir" (in 2010), and "Christmas Comes
But Once a Year" (in 2011).  Jon Hamm won
an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a
Drama Series, as Don Draper, in 2015.

Mad Men




Manhunt:  The Inside Story of the Hunt for Bin
Laden (2013) won an Emmy for Outstanding
Documentary or Nonfiction Special.  9/11
terrorist Osama Bin Laden was born March 10,
1957 and was killed by United States special
forces May 2, 2011.




Manhunt: The Inside Story of the Hunt for Bin Laden