This one has been making the rounds: A Community reference to Mad Men featuring Alison Brie. How meta!
From Basketcase SmilerG:
In The Grown Ups, Peggy tells Don that her roommate invited others in their building over, to write condolence letters to Jackie Kennedy.
Turns out, lots of people really did write such letters and thousands of them wound up at the JFK Library. Now there’s a book containing many of them.
Smiler also sent us this link to an article that opens “It was Mad Men meets Flash Gordon.”
Our own jez didn’t care for Christina’s Oscar post-party dress, and neither did the Fug Girls.
Bryan Batt will be on Ugly Betty on April 7.
Parade interviews Jon Hamm. So does the New Jersey Star Ledger.
A bunch of Mad Men folks attended the Breaking Bad premiere party.
South by Southwest will honor title design. How can Mad Men’s stunning falling man fail to be mentioned? Of course it’s mentioned!
In this article on protecting cable television content, Matt Weiner’s decision not to send out screeners of the season 3 finale is mentioned.
Current Mad Men (and former Buffy) writer Marti Noxon is scripting a remake of Fright Night.
Shorty awards went to @bettydraper and Mad Men Muppets.
Author Susan Orlean (The Orchid Thief) mentioned Don Draper in a talk about chickens. No, I’m not kidding.
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Rich Sommers was on Ugly Betty this past Wednesday; you can watch the episode here. His character was cute but annoying.
Just came across this on NPR, made me think of all those ladies desks in the middle of Sterling Cooper: Obsolete Occupations — Secretary Pool
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor…
God, I can't wait for Breaking Bad to start up again. Only one more week.
Susan Orlean. Huh.
One of my girlfriends at work was interviewed by Orlean herself, while still in J school, for a gig as Orlean's nanny. It's hard not to love my friend, but Orlean found herself unimpressed, and said so.
She later tried to friend my girl on Facebook. Because, you know, why not?
Some famous people are just straight nuts.
BTW, regarding those who should be famous and are somehow less so: Helen Klein Ross, the voice of @betty_draper and a founding sister among women in advertising, is worth following on Twitter. And interviewing here on the Basket, says me.
http://www.helenkleinross.com/helenkleinross/welc…
Anne, you're a Basketwriter, you wanna do an interview, we'll TOTALLY let you.
The Lifetime movie "Who Is Clark Rockefeller?" is based on a true story from a couple years ago and has a bit of a Don Draper-ish protagonist, a German con artist passing himself off an a heir to the Rockefeller family.
Of course the wife looks kind of nuts to the FBI for not having any info on her husband- no SS#, marriage license, driver's license, never met his relatives (his side of the church was empty at their wedding), etc. after he kidnapped their daughter.
Remember the J Peterman catalog? With the reams of prose explaining the specialness of each item? Well, it's back. (I think Peterman extended himself & sold off his name. Then got back on his feet while the people who bought it made bad business decisions. So he bought it back.)
The latest catalog came today. With some rather hip items that might be worth the investment. Like a skirt named for "Secretary" Joan:
not Bridget thanks–and that skirt is very fabulous!
Not that I think Christina EVER looks BAD bad, but when I see that dress I can hear Edina Monsoon slurring in my ear, "Lacroix, darling. LACROIX."