This post serves no purpose whatsoever, except to gloat. I’ve had quite a Mad Men filled week, and the best part is I didn’t have to do anything special in order to have it. It just…happened.
It included a lunch date with Donielle Artese, witnessing a possible film shoot, an encounter with Rima Yazbeck, who plays the fan dancer in the Mad Men Revue, and culminated in (more…)
Courtesy of a very good friend of ours, Paula Sangeleer, who co-hosts a morning show on Eagle 97 out of Delaware.
Just a fun visit with Crista. She talks about Mad Men (Paula is a fan), she talks about Mad TV (sense the theme?), she does some impressions, she talks about the Mad Men Revue, and yes, the Basket gets a plug (around 6:00).
Enjoy!
(This took me all day to post because I couldn’t do the link thingy with the audio. Thank you, Karl!)
Here’s the continuation of my conversation with Bryan Batt on February 9.
At the point we left off, I asked some questions about what’s next for the Revue, which Bryan loves doing and would love to do more of, but there’s no news to report. This segued into a discussion of doing events for the season three premiere. 
Bryan Batt: [The problem is] we’re going to be working when the season premiere happens.
Deborah Lipp: Right, there’s an overlap.
And then back to the Revue.
DL: The audio I’ve heard is just fantastic.
BB: It was so much fun. And everyone, the audience ate it up.
DL: So the big thing this season was Kitty, obviously. And the interesting thing, we were discussing in some ways, with this big hole, nonetheless, Sal is the best husband on the show.
BB: [laughs] Yes! He is! He communicates with her, he feels honestly, he’s very upset with himself that he’s hurt her feelings, he listens to her. When he acts like a typical jerk man at dinner, he apologizes, and he does the dishes…
DL: He’s attentive to the fact that there’s another person there, which most of the guys aren’t; they think of their wives as adversaries or obligations.
BB: We made a conscious choice, and also I think Matt did as well. That, you know, he does love her. He does love her. And the fact that he is gay is, it has nothing to do with his love for her. And I do believe that they do have a good sex life, but I think his heart, his spirit, is, he is gay. But he does love his wife very much. So many gay men and women, who have been married to the opposite sex do love their husbands [and wives].
DL: Of course.
BB: They realize that you can’t fight something like that. Something that’s so genetic and powerful.
Basketwriter Hullaballoo linked us up in comments with some Mad Men Revue photos. But they’re too good to leave there: Here they are on top.
AMC links us up with Jon Hamm on 30 Rock and on Conan O’Brien.
This fabulous BBC News article takes an in-depth look at Mad Men style, both fashion and design.
Colin Hanks is going to be on Broadway with Jane Fonda.
Poor Mark Kelly! He finally shows up in a Mad Men photo and is identified as “Paul Kinsey.” Alas. Despite that, you’ll want to read this smart London Mail review.
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Note: I save news items in a draft until I’m ready to post. Because we stopped blogging for several days, some of these items are kind of old. Items that Karl & hullaballoo already posted have been removed.
In an entertaining article about writing television series finales, Matt Weiner is quoted. The article, though, is mostly about the upcoming ER finale and famous finales such as The Sopranos.
British media is writing a lot about Mad Men, what with season 2 about to start there. This Times article sees a parallel to 2008 in the Nixon vs. Kennedy elections.
Thanks to Basketcase JS for the link to pics of Jon Hamm and January Jones at the PGA Awards. I almost never say this, but I adore Jan’s dress.
If you are hungry for backstage SAG news, thank Basketcases for providing this, this, and this.
This short Variety article about the PGA win has a cute Jon Hamm quote. Cuz he’s cute.
They fugged Maggie Siff for her Mad Men Revue costume. Twice. And this time they not only fugged the dress, but dinged her for wearing it twice.
So I wrote to them and said:
Honestly, I can’t believe you guys. Maggie Siff was wearing a COSTUME back in October for a musical revue the cast of Mad Men did in LA. And she was wearing the SAME costume last night for the SAME musical revue in Vegas.
Hello? Costume! Just saying.
Kisses,
Deborah
And look! They added an addendum:
** Oh, bless, apparently the Mad Men revue she’s performing in above was ALSO performed in October, hence the repeat outfit. So now the question is: Whom is she bribing in order to GET them to dress her like a potential Hamm-enticing beanbag chair?
I am Teh Famous.
Back in October, I covered the MM Revue (“A Night on the Town w/ MM”) for The Basket when it played at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles. I was amazed at the Mad talent of the Mad cast, and received one of THE thrills of my life when Robert Morse planted one on yours truly — without my having to lobby for it. No lie. He just grabbed me, and kissed me. And I’m not even cute. Well, not that cute. We all have our moments…
So the popularity of that October event spawned a repeat, which played this past Tuesday in Vegas. Essentially, it was the same show, but with the added talents of Rich Sommer, Julie McNiven, Audrey Wasilewski (Peggy’s sister Anita) and a cameo stage appearance by Christina Hendricks. (more…)
Our conversation took place on January 8th; before the Golden Globe win, before the SAG win (!!!) before Matthew Weiner was signed on to continue with the show. Things change awful fast in this Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Speaking with Michael was so much fun. It was easy; we just jumped right in and talked and talked and talked. He is a real pleasure. I wish you could hear how much of these words, both his and mine, were spoken through laughter. There was a lot of cracking up.
We spoke about the holidays, how he’d just finally gotten home after having traveled non-stop for two months. He’d gotten to spend time with his family; all of them together, which is apparently a rare treat, as one of his brothers lives in Japan and another in Spain.
About his siblings, he had this to say:
We’re all sort of black sheep; it’s a lot of fun.
(I told him I entirely related to that.)
And also:
It makes Christmas dinner really raucus and enjoyable.
And off we went.
photo from AMCtv.com
Michael Gladis: Paul Kinsey? Well, originally I was “Dick”, a different role, for the pilot.
RKL: I was gonna ask you about that! The cigarette-smoking Dick!
MG: Cigarette-smoking Dick! He was an Account Executive just like Harry and Ken. We were supposed to be like a Greek Chorus trio. We were all sort of interchangeable, I think.
I only did one audition for Mad Men. I was in New York, we were all living in New York at the time, and I went in and I loved the script. Actually, its a funny story. (more…)
Mo Ryan has more info. Looks like plans changed after Roberta spoke with Joel Murray. Yay!
Here’s the link on the NATPE site.
Looks like the long awaited return of the Mad Men Revue has finally arrived. Scheduled to coincide with the 2009 NATPE convention, those of you in Vegas on Tuesday, January 27 will have an opportunity to see a repeat of the L.A. performance. I assume that this time it’s open to the public since, according to Broadcasting & Cable, “the event is a fundraiser for the NATPE Educational Foundation and tickets can be ordered on NATPE’s Web site at www.natpe.org or can be purchased at an on-site kiosk in Las Vegas.”
All I could find on the NAPTE site was this press release. Anyone with better research skills care to delve a little deeper?
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