The Daily Beast | 'Mad Men' Up Close

Season 4’s ‘The Suitcase’ was instantly deemed a classic hour of TV. Show creator Matthew Weiner and star Jon Hamm offer an oral history of the gut-wrenching, Emmy-nominated episode.

The insight offered here is neat, but it strikes me as one in an increasingly long line of recent pieces playing pretty fast and loose with the idea of an “oral history,” which seems more and more to mean, like, “I just transcribed the A part of this Q&A (and then my editor paginated the shit out of it).” Which is a great move for time-crunched writers who hate the sound of their own voices and would prefer to dwell on them as little as possible, to be sure! But can we please reserve the tag of “oral history” for something a little more time- and effort-intensive than a partial transcript of a publicist-orchestrated phoner with the famous creator and star of a current and massively popular TV show, and meanwhile not be ashamed to embrace these wonderful little cogs in the entertainment-industrial complex for what they are?

michelledean:

Potentially unpopular opinion: I would be okay with Mad Men just ending.

I think I would be, too. Part of it is that I am so used to good shows getting canceled that I’ve been bracing myself for that as an eventuality for this show, too. It’s sad to see great shows die before their time, but also? It’s sad watching great shows turn to absolute shit just because they’re widely beloved cash-cows. I’d rather see Mad Men get Freaks & Geeks-ed than The Office-ed.

I’m the luckiest guy in the world. I would love it if you would put this in your magazine. I realize that my career is 99 percent luck, if not 99.9 percent luck. The fact that I’m born in America, and America has control over all these other colonies, and enslaved all these other countries — I mean, there are so many things that have happened in my life that make me so lucky. And one of them is that I’m an actor, somewhat of a public figure. But if there’s anything I can do to say one thing that might change one person’s mind, that will have some sort of value, my thing would be, you know: maybe take the bus once in a while. And I don’t think I’m saving the world by saying this — billions of people do it every day. Like I said, I don’t think it’s amazing. But if it does something, then maybe I’m not the biggest asshole in the world.
Why didn’t I know I was kind of supposed to love Vincent Kartheiser?
doree: whatevs: popculturebrain: New Couple Alert: January Jones & Jason Sudeikis | JustJared WHAAAAAAAAAT? Rat school! Oh this is sad-making. I don’t normally care about this stuff but, wait, so—Liz Lemon’s ex-boyfriend is now dating the alternate-TV-universe ex-wife of one of her other ex-boyfriends? AGH brain esplode
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doree:

whatevs:

popculturebrain:

New Couple Alert: January Jones & Jason Sudeikis | JustJared

WHAAAAAAAAAT? Rat school!

Oh this is sad-making.

I don’t normally care about this stuff but, wait, so—Liz Lemon’s ex-boyfriend is now dating the alternate-TV-universe ex-wife of one of her other ex-boyfriends? AGH brain esplode

Source: justjared.buzznet.com

Vulture | Drunken Mad Men Cast and Crew Sing ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ in Leaked Internal Video

Face hurts from grinning at this.

BuzzSugar | Mad Men Characters Compared With The Office Characters This is so perfect that I can’t believe it hasn’t been done before (and I’m, honestly, a little jealous I didn’t think of it myself). My favorite: Duck Phillips = Meredith Palmer As the characters who manage to creep you out despite mostly harmless exteriors, Meredith and Duck share a penchant for turtlenecks, booze, and hitting on younger, vulnerable peers.
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BuzzSugar | Mad Men Characters Compared With The Office Characters

This is so perfect that I can’t believe it hasn’t been done before (and I’m, honestly, a little jealous I didn’t think of it myself). My favorite:

Duck Phillips = Meredith Palmer

As the characters who manage to creep you out despite mostly harmless exteriors, Meredith and Duck share a penchant for turtlenecks, booze, and hitting on younger, vulnerable peers.

So if I’m not mistaken, the actress in this commercial is Elizabeth Rice, who plays Roger Sterling’s daughter Margaret on Mad Men. This is funny because, ha, meta! Daughter of fictional ad man playing daughter of some other man in a commercial! But also, if Margaret Sterling had found out that her father’s Peripheral Artery Disease, my guess is she’d totally have skipped the gentle filial prodding and just let him croak (as long as he’d already paid for the wedding).

I suspect Margaret’s dislike of her father relates directly to his infidelity and also general boorishness, but perhaps also because he gave her that perfectly delicate, aquiline nose. A great bit of casting, that.

madmenfootnotes: Here’s your Pampers tagline, Pegs. Pampers = progress. Take note: “In the past twenty years, diapers have got smaller and smaller, too. In the early eighties, they were three times bulkier than they are now, thicker and substantially wider in the crotch. But in the mid-eighties Huggies and Procter & Gamble’s Pampers were reduced in bulk by fifty per cent; in the mid-nineties they shrank by a third or so; and in the next few years they may shrink still more. It seems reasonable that there should have been a downside to this, just as there was to the shrinking of cars and radios: how could you reduce the amount of padding in a diaper and not, in some way, compromise its ability to handle an insult? Yet, as diapers got smaller, they got better, and that fact elevates the diaper above nearly all the thousands of other products on the supermarket shelf.” — Malcolm Gladwell, ‘Smaller’.
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madmenfootnotes:

Here’s your Pampers tagline, Pegs.

Pampers = progress.

Take note:

“In the past twenty years, diapers have got smaller and smaller, too. In the early eighties, they were three times bulkier than they are now, thicker and substantially wider in the crotch. But in the mid-eighties Huggies and Procter & Gamble’s Pampers were reduced in bulk by fifty per cent; in the mid-nineties they shrank by a third or so; and in the next few years they may shrink still more. It seems reasonable that there should have been a downside to this, just as there was to the shrinking of cars and radios: how could you reduce the amount of padding in a diaper and not, in some way, compromise its ability to handle an insult? Yet, as diapers got smaller, they got better, and that fact elevates the diaper above nearly all the thousands of other products on the supermarket shelf.” — Malcolm Gladwell, ‘Smaller’.

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