Thursday, September 17, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Limit Your Exposure [To Mad Men Season 3 Spoilers]
Here, Alan Sepinwall is unsuccessful at getting show creator Matthew Weiner to admit why he set the new season in 1963: to stage an elaborate Dallas homage around the Kennedy assassination. [Draper's Season 3 Episode 1 lie about being an accountant investigating Jimmy Hoffa spins off the rails! He's kept secrets before, but can he keep state secrets?]
Did you know Baby Boomers are stupid, spoiled and narcissistic? Here, Frank Rich argues why the zeitgeist chooses the Mad Men season premiere over the Woodstock anniversary. [Hint: Black Camelot]
Here we learn "Pete’s big issue is that all the metrics for his manhood are fucked."
Did you know Baby Boomers are stupid, spoiled and narcissistic? Here, Frank Rich argues why the zeitgeist chooses the Mad Men season premiere over the Woodstock anniversary. [Hint: Black Camelot]
Here we learn "Pete’s big issue is that all the metrics for his manhood are fucked."
Labels: The Hidden Persuaders, TV
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Vox: a blog service for actors and people who studied Latin
Rich Sommer—aka Harry Crane on AMC's Emmy-award-winning period thing, The Hidden Persuaders—evidently has a blog on Vox. (He was a Beta tester.)
Labels: "It's the Arts", Is that Latin?, The Hidden Persuaders
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Dude Be A Caricature
Remember that scene from the first episode of Nathan Barley wherein some "urban lifestyle magazine" goons defend the hipness of a crass "rock/paper/scissors" ripoff by saying (paraphrase): "Idiots think it's cool because it's rude, when actually it's cool because it looks like it's cool because it's rude"? (Here it is at minute 2:43 if you missed it.)
Well Gavin McInnes, formerly of Vice Magazine, just did something like that stupid, but for real.
(Of course, I still check this site regularly, so I really shouldn't complain)
Well Gavin McInnes, formerly of Vice Magazine, just did something like that stupid, but for real.
(Of course, I still check this site regularly, so I really shouldn't complain)
Labels: Creeptastic, Humor, The Hidden Persuaders
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Sterling Cooper 2008 AD: Parallel Universe Alert
Out of character, the cast of AMC's The Hidden Persuaders looka like 'dis:

[via Subtlety in Excess]

[via Subtlety in Excess]
Labels: Images of Note, The Hidden Persuaders, TV