This edition of Mad News is early and short because the awards news is significant.
- Rosemarie DeWitt has won another award for Rachel Getting Married. Funny, we thought Jon Hamm would be the break-out star from Mad Men.
- She’s interviewed by Variety here.
- The WGA has once again nominated Mad Men for Best Dramatic Series, although not for any single episodes. Last year, they nominated Mad Men for Best Dramatic Series, Best New Series, and nominated Hobo Code for Best Episodic Drama (single episode), and it won Best New Series.
- The New York Press loves Mad Men but thinks Swingtown is better. That’s just…weird.
- Basketcase portiaslegacy tells us that January Jones is on the cover of January’s Town and Country. She’s photoshopped almost into unrecognizability.
- Of course, Hamm is promoting his new movie, so there are interviews. Here’s a great quote:
[Director Scott] Derrickson points out that when the filmmakers cast Hamm in the fall of 2007, only a few episodes of Mad Men had aired. “If there had been five more episodes on the air, we wouldn’t have been able to afford him. That’s the truth.”
- The Fresno Bee interviews him as well, and notes that Hamm always wanted to star in a big science fiction picture.
- Entertainment Weekly lists the 25 Smartest People in Television. At #21 is Christina Wayne, AMC’s Senior VP of original programming, illustrated with a still from Mad Men. At #11 is our beloved Matt Weiner.
- Australia’s The Age has an extensive article about Mad Men interspersed with a Christina Hendricks interview. And guess what? I learned something new! Christina told the interviewer that Joan is from Washington State.
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IIRC, CH spent some of her formative hears in Idaho, so there may be some bio to draw on there, much as Harry/Rich is from Wisconsin/Minnesota.
Yay Rosemarie Dewitt!
Boo WGA. The Eli Stone pilot was not even in the same league as the weakest episode of MM.
Boo NY Post. Swingtown is just icky to me.
And January looks like she should be co-hosting The View on that cover.
I watched Swingtown, and I kind of enjoyed it, and I don’t get it one bit.
Thanks for the article. I did not watch Swingtown, but I know what they mean. Swingtown let itself explore ideas that Mad Men does not (in the reviewers case it was the way the three lead females related, arguably no one relates to anyone on Mad Men) It does not explore others, but those are one the author needs.
I did not read the WGA ones, but I am really attached to Eli Stone. Take that as an example of needing and a different perspective and appreciating it done well.
Why on earth would Weiner decide Joan was from Washington state? How odd, I never pictured that for her at all. But its super cool as I am from and in Washington state right now.
That Town and Country cover is awful, poor JJ.
When I hear Swingtown, all I hear is Steve Miller.
Golden Globes noms just announced:
Mad Men nominated for Best Drama, Best Actor (Jon Hamm), and Best Actress…January Jones
Nothing for Vincent Kartheiser, John Slattery, Elisabeth Moss, or Christina Hendricks.
Thanks, hull, I'll get a post up.
Hey, what's this I heard that Jon Hamm will be Liz Lemon's love interest on 30 Rock? Any further word on this?
I am going through Mad Men withdrawal……
While Swingtown and Mad Men were on last summer, I definitely felt the two shows were delving into similar areas: looking carefully back at women's lives at certain points in history with the POV of our present.
I highly rec Swingtown to any Mad Men fan. It's about to come out on DVD, apparently. (You Deadwood lovers out there will enjoy yet another wonderful, subtle performance here from Molly Parker. <3 <3 )
For all those current day Bert Coopers, here is a version of 'Atlas Shrugged Updated for the Current Financial Crisis'.
http://mcsweeneys.net/2008/11/20tucker.html