Monday Night Throwball double header, but the real treat is for you Ayn Rand fans- Patricia Neal in The Fountainhead–
The Fountainhead’s protagonist, Howard Roark, is an individualistic young architect who chooses to struggle in obscurity rather than compromise his artistic and personal vision. The book follows his battle to practice what the public sees as modern architecture, which he believes to be superior, despite an establishment centered on tradition-worship. How others in the novel relate to Roark demonstrates Rand’s various archetypes of human character, all of which are variants between Roark, the author’s ideal man of independent-mindedness and integrity, and what she described as the “second-handers.” The complex relationships between Roark and the various kinds of individuals who assist or hinder his progress, or both, allow the novel to be at once a romantic drama and a philosophical work. By Rand’s own admission, Roark is the embodiment of the human spirit and his struggle represents the triumph of individualism over collectivism.
- ABC Family– Johnson Family Vacation x 2
- AMC– Death Wish x 2
- ESPN– Ravens @ Jets, Chargers @ Chiefs
- Food– Unwrapped, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (premiers)
- FX– There’s Something About Mary
- History– Pawn Stars, American Pickers (premiers)
- Oxygen– Juno x 2
- National Geographic– Inside the Vietnam War
- TBS– Family Guy night
- Turner Classic– The Fountainhead
- TNT– The Closer, Rizzoli & Isles (Season Finales)
- Toon– Regular Show, MAD, Total Drama World Tour (premiers)
- Travel– Man v. Food, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (premier)
- Vs.– Victory
Later-
- AMC– Rubicon, Mad Men (repeats of this week’s)
- Turner Classic– The Subject Was Roses, A Face in the Crowd
- TVLand– How Stella Got Her Groove Back
- USA– Covert Affairs, Psych, White Collar (this week’s)
Dave is in repeats. Jon has Ben Affleck, Stephen Lisa Birnbach. Alton does game birds. Boondocks is doing Stinkmeaner 3: The Hateocracy, but you’ve already seen that, haven’t you?
This whole country’s just like my flock of sheep!
Sheep?
Rednecks, crackers, hillbillies, hausfraus, shut-ins, pea-pickers – everybody that’s got to jump when somebody else blows the whistle. They don’t know it yet, but they’re all gonna be ‘Fighters for Fuller’. They’re mine! I own ’em! They think like I do. Only they’re even more stupid than I am, so I gotta think for ’em. Marcia, you just wait and see. I’m gonna be the power behind the president – and you’ll be the power behind me!
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Good night for napping.