Union Club of The City of New York - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • In the 1988 film Working Girl, Tess (Melanie Griffith) and Jack (Harrison Ford) gatecrash the wedding of Oren Trask's (Philip Bosco) daughter at the Union Club, where they finally are able to pitch their plan to Trask.
  • On the eighth episode of the third season (2012) of HBO's series Boardwalk Empire, titled "The Pony", Nucky Thompson poses as a member of the Kansas City Club in order to gain access to the Union Club via "a reciprocal agreement" between the two clubs, where he strikes an agreement with Andrew Mellon against Harry Daugherty.

Read more about this topic:  Union Club Of The City Of New York

Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:

    “Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “I do not see why, since America and her autumn woods have been discovered, our leaves should not compete with the precious stones in giving names to colors; and, indeed, I believe that in course of time the names of some of our trees and shrubs, as well as flowers, will get into our popular chromatic nomenclature.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “... good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)