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12 Responses to “ An hour with Matt Weiner ”

1. # 1 Karl Says:
   December 3rd, 2008 at 2:38 pm

   Listening a bit now. Some great stuff about how he got into TV, his family, The Sopranos, etc.

   Every time my wife sees a photo of me with Jon Hamm, she says, “Is he standing on something?”

2. # 2 Karl Says:
   December 3rd, 2008 at 4:11 pm

   …and as I always tout the DVD commentaries, I guess I was not surprised to learn how much control MW has over the DVD sets.

   But if anyone connected to MM stops by, I want to note that some of the best commentaries are the true group commentaries. I’m sure the logistics of scheduling makes them more difficult to do, but it’s worth it. As MW is the topic of this post, I’ll highlight his commentaries with Christina Hendricks (“The Long Weekend”) and Janie Bryant (“Shoot”).

   Folks should give the whole interview a listen — MW drops some new (to me, anyway) influences I’ll be wanting to check out.

3. # 3 Deborah Lipp Says:
   December 3rd, 2008 at 4:20 pm

   Every time my wife sees a photo of me with Jon Hamm, she says, “Is he standing on something?”

   That’s a riot. Roberta and I are not tall women (she’s a shrimp, I’m average) and he doesn’t exactly tower over us.

4. # 4 Karl Says:
   December 3rd, 2008 at 4:49 pm

   MW makes that comment during a discussion that’s more about James Gandolfini, about whom we learn a bit from an unexpected source.

5. # 5 Karl Says:
   December 3rd, 2008 at 4:53 pm

   Also, I can’t help but think of the video from the S2 wrap party (probably still up at AMC). There are clips of MW addressing the assembled crowd from a balcony, JH at his right hand with arms crossed imposingly. It sorta looks like they just took over some third-world country.

6. # 6 Roberta Lipp Says:
   December 3rd, 2008 at 5:44 pm

   Roberta and I are not tall women (she’s a shrimp, I’m average)

   What I put up with.

7. # 7 BroncoRoger Says:
   December 3rd, 2008 at 6:42 pm

   I just listened to the first segment and had a bizarro world experience. I’ve met Matt Weiner’s father on a few occasions and didn’t realize they were related. I’m not even sure I was aware of Matt at the time, but anyway, kind of mind-blowing for me. Matt’s father is a medical researcher that specializes in multiple sclerosis. I used to set up clinical trials for a company that had compounds in early stage development in neuroscience. I met him at a couple of medical conferences a couple of years ago. Great guy and off the charts brilliant. Small world.

8. # 8 Roberta Lipp Says:
   December 3rd, 2008 at 7:21 pm

   BR, that is amazing.

   Great guy and off the charts brilliant sounds very familiar.

9. # 9 Karl Says:
   December 3rd, 2008 at 10:54 pm

   BR: Very cool, despite the fact that the “small world” reference gave me Disney earworm.

10. # 10 aulelia Says:
    December 7th, 2008 at 11:55 am

    Lovely interview.

    You can tell this bloke is searingly intelligent b/c he has heaps of thoughts and crams them in these wicked soundbytes. He is almost more entertaining than the show itself.

11. # 11 Deborah Lipp Says:
    December 7th, 2008 at 12:38 pm

    Interviewing Matt Weiner is challenging for the interviewer (believe me, we know), because he’s got so many ideas at once, and focusing him down a path is hard. Even when you “fail,” you get so much great, compelling stuff, because he really is that smart and exciting. But I have to say, the interviewer here did an amazing and professional job.

12. # 12 Roberta Lipp Says:
    December 7th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

    The interviewer here is also a radio guy, and is clearly quite good at both on-air interviewing and seamless editing.