The video was made by (and stars) Andrew Zilch, of Zilch Zone. Andrew is (clearly) a friend of Rich’s (aka Harry Crane on Mad Men), and more importantly, a fan of Basket of Kisses!
PS; have a look at this youtube if you want to ‘meet’ me. It’s made by a good friend, and if you have no patience, skip ahead to 2:11.
In The Hobo Code, Salvatore says “I know what I want.” In Nixon vs. Kennedy, we get to see what he wants.
They’re reading Paul’s play, and the scene ends with Salvatore’s character kissing Joan’s character. They kiss, the audience responds, and—probably because of the audience response—Sal gives it all he’s got, dipping her back and making quite a show of it. The office goes wild, whooping and cheering, and the camera gives us a close-up of Sal’s reaction; beaming, joyful, fulfilled. This is what he wants, this praise for being “a man,” for being, well, heterosexual, for doing it right. It is the only moment when we see Salvatore really happy.
Eme commented on another post about the appeal of the Mad Men as grownups:
The fact that the men are supposed to be real adult men. Yes, I know that when we discuss these things we realize the real adolescent immaturity at (the) heart of the MM men but nevertheless, doesn’t MM in a way celebrate a culture of sophisticated adulthood? Personally, I’m just dying for a grown man to show up onscreen…
This reminded me of something Matthew Weiner said (back at that thing we saw him speak at where we met him and stuff) about how one thing that drives the characters forward is each of their struggles with where they are in their life cycle. That keeping that ‘real’ (no way did Weiner say “keeping anything real”) was how he could guarantee that this series never run dry, or need to rely on over-the-top plot devices. Read more »
I’ve posted in the past about the Whedon connection to Mad Men. Well, my son and I are watching Angel on DVD these evenings, and lo & behold, looks like Darby Stanchfield (Helen Bishop) guest-starred in the Angel Season 2 episode “The Anniversary.”
It’s very geeky, but I love finding things like this.
A long time ago, our own Dansj mentioned that Roger and Joan in the episode Babylon are like a Hopper painting.
I left myself a note to look into that, and my lovely sister saw the note (in our shared “notes” space under the blog hood) and sent me this (actually, she sent several, but this one is it):
It’s not exactly right, of course, but it has exactly the feel of the episode. Compare it to this:
So, to work it forwards instead of backwards, it goes like this. I had dinner with two friends last night, one of whom is a young woman I met through a mutual friend a few years back. She lives in Texas. She was in Manhattan for her sister’s graduation.
Anyway, as part of catching up, I mention this here blog thing. (She has not seen Mad Men yet, but is aware of my… fixation blog, and intends to catch the first season when it comes out on DVD.) And how it’s been getting some attention. And this is when she mentions that her sister babysits for the actor on the show who she thinks almost loses his job (not so much, and so it takes us a minute to figure it out. “white-haired” was the key.)
I, I… I mean, I handed her my BoK card and tried to convince her to give it to her sister to give to John (and Talia). To like, what end, I couldn’t tell you.
I tried to convince her that the actors (at least some of them) know about us and kind of like us (this is a bit of a stretch, for me to assume that all the actors on the show feel the way that like, Rich Sommer and Julie McNiven do.) I tried to convince her that he won’t think it’s an intrusion at all if his babysitter hands him my card and gives him some kind of third-hand message. from a frigging fan. blogger. chick.
I may have lost some steam in the ‘convincing’ arc.
So, I don’t know… John, Talia, if you happen to see this umm… Hi! Your babysitter’s sister is a sweet girl.
As hullabaloo mentioned in a comment, this month’s issue of Vanity Fair has a nice little piece on Mad Men, written by Jonathan Kelly. And quite a photo (by Sam Jones).
His descriptions are killer:
Don Draper…, dark, mysterious, breathtakingly handsome, yet emotionally castrated…
…Draper’s wife, Betty…, is the gorgeous orchid, frozen in Eisenhower-era black-and-white.
And do NOT miss the behind the scenes of the photo shoot. Mostly just Kelly speaking about the show. Kinda like us. (Though he does refer to “Christina Hendrickson”. D’OH!)
People Magazine’s 100 Most Beautiful People issue had a section on “Year of the Redhead” that featured our own Christina Hendricks (Joan Holloway). The 18 pictures on the website show redheads Julianne Moore and Isla Fisher; I honestly think Christina (a natural blonde) is by far the more beautiful.
