White Telephone Movies

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Depression-era movies about rich people, like Philadelphia Story, are known as white telephone movies, Steve Sailer says, because only millionaires could finagle a non-black telephone out of the Bell monopoly back then:

Perhaps the contemporary equivalents made by Nancy Meyer (writer director of the aptly named What Women Want with Mel Gibson) could be called Viking range movies because they are heavy on high-end kitchen appliance porn.

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