Posted in celebrities, mad men, Television, Uncategorized, tagged mad men, mad men season 5, mad men's vincent karthesier, pete campbell, pete campbell mad men, pete campbell vulture interview, vince kartheiser vulture interview, Vincent Kartheiser, Vincent Kartheiser interview on June 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“I think it’s a testament to the writing over the last five years that they’ve built animosity in our audiences towards a character that has done some pretty despicable things and, at the same time, who has lived a life in a perfectly moral way.”
I haven’t done a gratuitous Pete Campbell post in awhile. I was too busy being completely absorbed by Mad Men’s Season 5. Here Vincent Kartheiser defends his shattered, sneaky alter ego to Vulture.
Posted in celebrities, mad men, Television, tagged amc television, don draper, mad men, mad men between takes, mad men season 5, pete campbell, roger sterling, television on September 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Jon Hamm relaxing between takes
Posted in celebrities, mad men, Television, wtf, tagged 2011 emmys, emmy awards, emmy nominations 2011, mad men, mad men 19 emmy, mad men's christina hendricks, mad men's vincent karthesier, nick offerman emmy snub, pete campbell mad men, vince kartheiser on July 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Emmy nominations came out this morning.
Argh. Vince Kartheiser who plays Pete Campbell on Mad Men got shut out again. What does he have to do to get nominated for an Emmy?
Although Christina Hendricks finally got nommed and Mad Men got nineteen nominations total (including Best Lead for Hamm and Moss, Best Supporting for Slattery, Best Guest for Ida Blankenship and a crapload of artistic nods including two for writing). Yay! Come back, show!
Oddly am pulling for Matt Damon as Best Guest Actor on 30 Rock. He’s really good in that role.
Nick Offerman was not acknowledged in the extremely competitive Best Supporting Actor category for his amazing work as Ron Swansen on Parks & Rec, but he can console himself with the fact that the James Franco-hosted Academy Awards got nine nominations.
It puts things in perspective.
Posted in bucket list, mad men, Television, wtf, tagged amc tv, betty draper, mad men, mad men 2012, mad men coming back 2011, mad men delayed, mad men returning, mad men season 5, matthew weiner, roger sterling, slate on March 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The most recent terrible news for Mad Men fans is that the series won’t be back before March of 2012.
The holdup is apparently product placement, more commercial time (ironically) and cutting two to six major characters. Ugh.
Slate did a humorous blog about which characters should be cut, though.
Also my mini bucket list of things to do before Mad Men comes back is feeling less urgent.
Posted in bucket list, mad men, Television, tagged amc, mad men, mad men 2011, mad men season 5, mad men season 5 starts, mad men season five, television, when is mad men coming back 2001 on March 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Super annoying. It seems that negotiations for Mad Men continue to be delayed and that the writing for Season 5 hasn’t even started yet.
According to the New York Times:
Production would normally start around this time for the next season of “Mad Men,” but AMC has not struck a new deal with the studio that makes the show, Lionsgate, nor has that studio struck a new deal with Matthew Weiner, the series’s acclaimed creator.
Mr. Weiner has said he wants the show to continue, and AMC has pledged that it will definitely return, so the delay is largely due to a disagreement about money.
“By now, the writing staff should be humming along, maybe about a month or more into work for a summer premiere,” he said. “Unless Weiner is secretly manufacturing outlines in preparation of some crazy all-night writing sessions with his staff, it might be time for fans to grow concerned.”
I guess on the bright side it gives me more time for my Mini Bucket List which I vow to have completed by the time Mad Men returns. Honestly, I’d rather have a start date for the show, though.
Posted in bucket list, mad men, writing life, tagged boo radley, bucket list, don draper, faster pussycat, faster pussycat kill kill, harper lee, mad men, mad men coming back 2011, russ meyer, the boo radleys, the matrix, to kill a mockingbird, tura satana, tura satana died, tura satana faster pussycat on February 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Don Draper writing his own bucket list -- it's all women's names
I mean, I think last year one of my girl friends had to finish a novel and have it to her editor on Christmas Eve, which weirdly makes sense because then she got to enjoy the holidays without tearing her hair out over her book. But I assure you that kind of deadline was just a coincidence.
So I wanted to do like a bucket list (I hated that movie and only made it through part of it, by the way) but a short-term one that goes until the summer. To me a big event that I look forward to is the return of Mad Men, the best show in the history of television, so I thought I would have the items on my mini bucket list completed by the time that Mad Men returns. It usually premieres in July, so I was just looking to see if they had set a date yet and I came across some disturbing news from Variety.
It looks like they haven’t locked the show down yet. Is that right? I don’t speak Hollywood negotiation talk fluently, but it appears that some contracts have been extended and others haven’t? No!
Hopefully it will all work out. Anyway, the news that my favorite show may be in a precarious state completely distracted me from my bucket list (that I have to come up with a better name for, especially because it is milder than Things I Want To Do Before I Die).
The list may mostly be arts-related, but here are the first two:
1. See a Russ Meyer Film. I’m thinking Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! because it gets referenced so much and because I saw that the star of it, Tura Satana, died last week.
2. Read To Kill a Mockingbird. I was talking to some author friends on twitter and there were actually quite a few of us who haven’t read it. Totally disgraceful and embarrassing. It also gets referenced constantly. Just like there’s a band called Faster Pussycat, there is one called The Boo Radleys–named for a character in the book, not that I’d know since I haven’t read it.
3. I should also probably reluctantly put The Matrix on my list because people are always talking about it.
Of course if Mad Men isn’t coming back I have a lot more time to complete this project.
Posted in celebrities, mad men, Television, tagged amc television, mad men, mad men interviews, mad men's vincent karthesier, nicholas stecher, pete campbell mad men, television, vince kartheiser, Vincent Kartheiser, Vincent Kartheiser interview on January 11, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Another great article with my favorite Mad Man. It’s worth the ad you have to run first.
Vincent Kartheiser: “When you’re in a shitty car, no one looks at you.”
Meet with him for two hours and you will perceive a deviousness that dwells not too deep beneath the surface. He could play the quintessential horror-twins breezily — one sweet cherubic, blue eyes pure as Potagonia glaciers, the other possessed with a wicked malevolence.
Posted in celebrities, mad men, Television, tagged mad men, mad men's vincent karthesier, pete and trudy charleston, pete campbell, pete campbell charleston, pete campbell dancing, pete campbell mad men, Vincent Kartheiser, Vincent Kartheiser dancing, Vincent Kartheiser interview, vincent karthesier on August 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Here’s a fun interview from last fall with Vincent Kartheiser who plays my favorite character in the history of television, Mad Men‘s Pete Campbell.
He talks about on-set affairs, not getting recognized in L.A. and most importantly, the Charleston.
