or just wants an excuse to film in and around Kennebunkport, Hyannis, or Martha's Vineyard. All this snootiness comes in very handy when a producer requires a Black Sheep. That family is famously Irish Catholic rather than WASP, and made their money in real estate, the stock market, and Prohibition-era bootlegging. note None of whom were named Kennedy, incidentally. Many of these are scions of the "Codfish Aristocracy" or "Boston Brahmins", uber-exclusive, old-money White Anglo-Saxon Protestant families who can trace their ancestry back to the Mayflower passenger list. On one side, we have the highbrow intellectuals who go to Ivy League universities, write books, dabble in philosophy and end up as magnificent eccentrics. In media, by contrast, New England gets Flanderized into. Home of Plymouth Rock, Walden Pond, Harvard, Yale, Dunkin' Donuts, Ben and Jerry's, the Red Sox, the Patriots, the Celtics, the Bruins. Ah, New England: Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.
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