In the first episode this year, we glimpsed Don Draper watching Lost Horizon, the sorta classic 1937 Frank Capra film based on the much better 1933 novel by British writer James Hilton. The novel was a favorite of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was inaugurated the month before it was published
Date: May 06, 2015
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'Mad Men' recap: Matthew Weiner's not giving answers, and Don Draper's not ...
Here are the basics: Sunday's episode was titled "Lost Horizon," which is the name of the 1933 James Hilton novel but -- for the purposes of this episode -- almost certainly refers to the 1937 Capra film, seen by Don and Megan while lying in bed in her apartment perched high over a canyon with the c
Lost Horizon is the title of this episode (or, as AMC likes to call it, the second to the last episode well see before the finale on May 17.)Lost Horizon, of course, is also the title of the famed 1933 novel by James Hilton. Frank Capra turned the book into a film in 1937a movieDon Draper watc
Date: May 04, 2015
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Mad Men: What's In A Name? Or, Don Draper Looks To the Horizon
antepenultimate episode, "Lost Horizon," his own private paradise free of the shallowness and hypocrisy from which he's been becoming alienated. (We glimpsed Don watching Lost Horizon, the 1937 Frank Capra film based on the better novel by British writer James Hilton, in this year's opening episode.
Date: Apr 28, 2015
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Obamas to Spend Rare Weekend at Camp David Retreat
Camp David has been a weekend presidential refuge since 1942, when Franklin D. Roosevelt decided he wanted to flee Washington's muggy summers and still stay close to the capital during wartime. Roosevelt named it "Shangri-la," the fictional valley in James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon."
Date: Jul 18, 2014
Category: U.S.
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Gallery: Fire nearly destroys Tibet's 1300-year-old Shangri-La
The fire in Gyalthang -- which is situated in an area believed to be the inspiration for James Hilton's mythical Shangri-La -- flattened two thirds of the town's old centre, the Beijing Morning Post reported.
Once called Gyaitang Zong, the county surrounding Dukezong renamed itself Shangri-La in 2001, hoping to draw tourists by referencing the mythical Himalayan land described in James Hilton's 1933 novel.
Daocheng Yading is a scenic area rechristened "Shangri-la" over a decade ago in the hopes that tourists would be drawn by the reference to the mythical Himalayan land described in James Hilton's 1933 novel.
Date: Sep 17, 2013
Category: World
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James Hilton
Work:
Winston Joseph - Project Manger (2011) Gander Mountain - Used Firearms Specialist (2010-2011)
Education:
East Carolina University - Business Management
Tagline:
An avid outdoorsman pretty much sums me up!
James Hilton (Yunnan Taste)
Work:
Yunnan Taste Tourism Service - Public Relations (2013)