Comments on: Mad News, October 9-14, 2009

By: RetroGirl

RetroGirl — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:30:49 +0000

@ 27 Aran-Thanks for posting the article. It was a real treat to learn about the process of obtaining and constructing props. My fantasy is to walk around the prop department and costume department on "Mad Men."

By: Aran

Aran — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:58:01 +0000

Great article about the Mad Men props. http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/an-inter…

By: Emsworth

Emsworth — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:16:10 +0000

#1 Esme: Seconded. I want to know more about what's happpening with Joan and Peggy and feel like I know more than enough about the unfillable pit of need that is Betty Draper and the increasingly desperate state of the Draper marriage.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for some sort of Bonwit Teller/Sterling Cooper merger. I realise it's an incredibly long shot, but I'm grasping at straws right now!

By: esme

esme — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:31:47 +0000

Donny Brook – I understand your aggravation with parallel stories. I think these are often done to provide EXCLAMATION points because many others don’t watch a show as closely as others and then read about the episodes.

Most everything in drama is about execution.

At the same time, those things you bring to the show, your level of sophistication in watching a show, influence your feelings too. In the past I found that when I started to study how something was done, especially in the arts, I would face a moment when “the magic” was gone because I had learned how the magicians do the tricks.

There’s always a little bit of sadness in that.

By: Therese

Therese — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:48:43 +0000

I found an original ad for the lipstick featured in the EW Article–

Here’s the original ad for Revlon ‘Futurama’ (it’s # 5)
http://books.google.com/books?id=gz8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA21&dq=Revlon+lipstick&lr=&as_pt=MAGAZINES#v=onepage&q=Revlon%20lipstick&f=false

And here’s the one featured in the EW Article
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20308587_20309881_4,00.html

(BTW, if you saw the actual article in EW magazine last week, there was a picture of Elizabeth Moss and Christina Hendricks getting their make up done–and Christina was in the purple dress with her hair up! This gives me hope that Joan will be back–Unless they were just getting ready for their photo shoot in an earlier edition of EW (same outfits)

By: Lucy

Lucy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:58:03 +0000

Check out Rachel Shukert's totally hilarious unsolicited advice for Betty Draper:

"http://thefastertimes.com/unsolicitedadvice/2009/10/13/not-that-you-asked-betty-draper-edition/"

By: Fnarf

Fnarf — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:07:07 +0000

OMG!!! Frottage slept with Kugel???? No WAII!!!!

Thanks for that, Rosey V. Hilarious! I too am almost as devoted to the Soup as I am to Mad Men. And I agree with Shelly: Jon Gosselin is to Don Draper what dog puke is to a rare two-inch thick rib-eye steak with a glass of ’61 Gevrey-Chambertin.

By: Anne B

Anne B — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:37:44 +0000

Robin? Leaving?

Holy freakin’ what??

By: Deborah Lipp

Deborah Lipp — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:50:09 +0000

Sorry for burying the lede. I think I assumed that by the time I posted Mad News, we'd already be discussing it. It was actually added to the original Kater Gordon article, and I think we were discussing it in that post.

By: RetroGirl

RetroGirl — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:05:51 +0000

There's a lot of really interesting articles here. What's really wonderful about Mad News is reading what everyone else has to say about the articles. I took the quiz, and I'm a Peggy, which I think is pretty accurate.