Tonight, December 13th, on HBO there will be a made-for-TV movie shown in
the US titled "Breast Men," about the inventors of the breast implant.

This is the "Slate" magazine review of it, and a link to a web site.

Breast Men (HBO; Dec. 13; 9 p.m. EST/PST). Applause for this morality tale
about the inventors of the breast implant, who go from being star surgeons
in the '70s to coke heads in the '80s. "The Boogie Nights of the fake-boob
industry" (Bruce Fretts, Entertainment Weekly). Critics admire the show's
witty satire of sleazy doctors, as well as the performances by David
Schwimmer (Friends) and Chris Cooper (Lone Star). New York's John Leonard
gripes that Breast Men simply exploits cable TV's independence to show
gratuitous flesh: "In an exuberance meant to be Rabelaisian, it crosses the
line from peep show into pornography." (HBO plugs the show
[hbo.com/Features/cmp/dec.feat.1.html#breast%20men].)


Someone on LactNet who gets HBO -- watch it for the rest of us and let us
know if they mention breastfeeding in any way.

Katherine A. Dettwyler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Nutrition
Texas A&M University