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In the previews and stills from the upcoming AMC remake of The Prisoner, Ian McKellen's character wears an outstanding style of panama. Can anyone identify the exact style - if not identify the maker/supplier? Here's the official miniseries page, for those who don't want to Google around...

Yah, mine too. Every day it's a tussle between it, just nicely broken in, or my new gray Akubra Fed.

Harleys do NOT leak oil. They mark their territory. :D

I assume you mean in general. This shirt does not have a matched pattern to the pocket. It's a nice blend, but not matched.

My second cel was a StarTac. About as close as they ever got. I never lost the urge to say "Beam me up" when I opened it - and sometimes did.

This is more appropriate to the '70s era (pardon my mention of that benighted time) when Greek Fisherman's caps were a fad, but do recall Roy Blount Jr.'s comment that "No one should wear a Greek Fisherman's cap who is not (a) Greek and (b) a fisherman." :D

U-571 simply hijacked the story from the Brits who did it to some more Hollywoodgenic 'Murricans. There were other Enigma captures later in the war, but the first and the one the movie portrays was by our limey cousins. There really wasn't any justification for this lapse by the filmmakers.

It is, at least, better than U-571, which has the wrong country stealing the Enigma machine. lol

Pour me one. Jack Daniel's Single Barrel preferred. Knob Creek will do.

There is a rising trope, which I would bet is more prevalent in schools, that no one is better than anyone else. This provokes resentment when someone who clearly has a leg up on some definition of "better" comes along and makes someone who's chosen a lower road uncomfortable. So you dress to...

I'm not sure. It could have been because of my reading (e.g. while tired, distracted, etc.) but my first take was that it was following "film story" style rather than novel-story. I am sensitive - perhaps hypersensitive - to novels written as film treatments, or at least in film-treatment...

If you have your cel phone in hand continuously, you don't need a watch, now, do you? :(

It's decent. I have a fascination with carnie life and this resonated nicely with much of the factual stuff I know. It seemed to lose steam about 2/3 through but that might have been me.

Well, most wild-eyed conspiracy stuff has simple answers that a few ill-informed skeptics don't want to face. :p Unquestioned mystery that has an unquestionable answer, and my number one question I'd like answered: What happened to the Amber Room?

And who says men were never daring in their fashions? lol