Showing posts with label Mad Men. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mad Men. Show all posts

Sunday, March 10, 2013

National two-hour party in U.S. is 4 weeks from tonight -and everyone's invited. Mad Men -Season Premiere Sunday April 7th; Buchan39's Rick Astley-inspired Mad Men Mashup of 'Never Gonna Give You Up' is what makes YouTube a national treasure


amc YouTube Channel video: On-Air Promo, Affair: Mad Men. Uploaded March 4, 2013
http://youtu.be/I03g36sbU8Y



Buchan39 YouTube Channel video: Mad Men Perform Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up. Uploaded August 31, 2012. http://youtu.be/SaFLd-hVKFY




Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up, RickAstleyVEVO Channel video: Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (1987). Uploaded October 24, 2009. http://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

Talk about someone with a powerful voice that just pops out of a car speaker on its own - Rick Astley!

Only one of the greatest songs ever to sing alone in a car on a (semi) cross-country trip, especially in the middle of the night in Nowheresville U.S.A., with your window down and the wind-rushing past you. 
And being able to fully see the stars!

In 1988, for me, that was usually a Chicago-to-Miami roundtrip road trip, loaded with lots of cold Cherry Coke in an Igloo cooler, and would usually happen in either south-central Tennessee or in Georgia between Atlanta and Macon.
Around 3:20 a.m.

*Coming or going, the worst part of that drive was always between 3:45 and 5:00 a.m.

I last mentioned favorite songs of mine that I loved singing and listening to on road trips by myself on April 8, 2012, in my post titled, Bringing out the Cow Bells for Easter! Stevie Wonder's genius "Another Star" still sends me -and reminds me of cross-country drives at night with the windows down, his music filling every inch of the car  
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/bringing-out-cow-bells-for-easter.html

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My previous blog posts about Mad Men are here:
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Mad%20Men

http://www.amctv.com/shows/mad-men

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Chic & sleek Sweden counts down the hours 'til "Mad Men" premieres Thursday at 21:00 on TNT-TV; “What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons.” – Don Draper


TurnerNordic video: TNT-TV.se's Mad Men Competition Spot SWE. Uploaded August 22, 2012. http://youtu.be/DnhH5naTt34

Now my friends there who don't watch TV -yes, I really do have such friends, hard as that is to believe- will have a reason to watch TV again.
And soon, all will be right again with the world and Sverige as Matthew Weiner finds that Swedes love his insight into humanity, families, corporate life and 1960's consumerism.
It will be hugely popular in what is now home to one of the most consumer-driven countries in the world, which explains why it seems like every third 17-year old girl you see on the street there has a fashion blog that gets more eyeballs coming to it every day than almost all of the blogs in South Florida.


Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Ending the Season 5 finale of "Mad Men" with Nancy Sinatra singing "You Only Live Twice" was sheer genius!; #YOLT;


amc video: Talked About Scenes - Episode 513 of Mad Men: Are You Alone? June 11, 2012. http://youtu.be/FH9iSl04rZo


Ending the Season 5 finale of "Mad Men" with Nancy Sinatra singing "You Only Live Twice" was sheer genius!; #YOLT


You know why that's so if you know about Don Draper's true identity.


Title sequence of "You Only Live Twice" with Nancy Sinatra singing title song.
http://youtu.be/hcIl_6amBvU
The iconic song was composed by John Barry and Leslie Bricusse. 


Earlier in the episode in what is now 1967, Don Draper goes to a Manhattan movie theater to see a matinee performance of the the new 007 spoof, "Casino Royale," starring Peter SellersDavid Niven Orson Welles, Ursula Andress and Woody Allen.
On an island of millions, whom do you think Don finds already sitting there in the theater by her lonesome as the film's score is playing, when she ought to be in her office at her new job at another advertising agency working on the women's cigarette account she was just assigned?
Yes, none other than Don Draper protégé Peggy Olson.



Casino Royale (1967) - opening credits. Music composed by Burt Bachrach, performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. 
http://youtu.be/SSEmKXzpQMQ


That film is also known for the Oscar Best Song-nominee, The Look of Love by Burt Bachrach and Hal David, sung by Dusty Springfield in the film.


It lost to Talk to the Animals from Doctor Dolittle, which was composed by -wait for it
You Only Live Twice co-composer Leslie Bricusse 



Casino Royale 1967 Dusty Springfield The Look of Love.
http://youtu.be/IW_kMtut25M
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New York Times
The ‘Mad Men’ Season Finale: Series Creator Matthew Weiner Discusses ‘The Phantom’
By Dave Itzkoff, June 11, 2012, 2:58 PM
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/the-mad-men-season-finale-series-creator-matthew-weiner-discusses-the-phantom/


http://www.amctv.com/shows/mad-men

Thursday, April 12, 2012

'God Bless America' - The feel-good American comedy of the summer involves an armed serial killer with annoyance issues and the pop culture-obsessed teen girl who wants to ride 'shotgun' on his journey; Bobcat Goldthwait on Jimmy Kimmel Live


'God Bless America' Trailer HD http://youtu.be/NaEjtiqCw4Q


'God Bless America' - The feel-good American comedy of the summer from Magnolia Pictures involves an armed serial killer with annoyance issues and the pop culture-obsessed teen girl who wants to ride 'shotgun' on his journey. 
Starring Joel Murray and Tara Lynne Barr, the film opens in theatres on May 11th.


Yes, the same Joel Murray who plays Freddy Rumsen on AMC-TV's Mad Men.
http://youtu.be/YWCz3omZpMk


Director Bobcat Goldthwait on ABC-TV's Jimmy Kimmel Live, Parts 1 and 2, April 11, 2012.

http://youtu.be/U_-fiHLXTko



http://youtu.be/fbUAVquG9Po


http://www.magpictures.com/

Monday, April 9, 2012

Poor Sally Draper! Years from now -in the past- 'Mad Men's' Sally is going to tell her own daughter a true story about getting a hit of Sec from Grandma, of crawling under the couch to avoid killers, and her daughter is NOT going to believe her!; Kiernan Shipka shines!



AMC-TV video: Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner on episode 504 and its themes of sexual violence and what it takes to be a man. April 8, 2012. http://youtu.be/oEbQyd78k50

Poor Sally Draper! 
Years from now -in the past- 'Mad Men's' Sally is going to tell her own daughter a true story about getting a hit of Sec from Grandma, of crawling under the couch to avoid killers, and her
daughter is NOT going to believe her!; Kiernan Shipka shines!


The 1966 newspaper headline about serial rapist and killer Richard Speck that Sally had been forbidden from reading, which she later fished-out of the garbage can and read under the covers of her bed with her flashlight. Reading the accounts of how the women were tortured by Speck caused Sally to get anxious and made her unable to sleep. April 8, 2012 screenshot by Hallandale Beach Blog.


An antsy Sally under the covers, flash light still on. April 8, 2012 screenshot by Hallandale Beach Blog.


This angst eventually caused Sally to temporarily make peace with her disagreeable babysitting step-grandmother Pauline for a bit, and later, accept a hit of Seconal from her so she could sleep -under the couch, where nobody like a homicidal killer would find her, since she'd read that the only one of the nine kidnap victims to survive had hidden underneath a bed. Above, the scene greeting her mom and step-father returning home late from a trip the next morning: a sleeping Pauline, and a completely wide-awake Sally hiding under the couch. April 8, 2012 screenshot by Hallandale Beach Blog.

For someone like me who has had a well-worn paperback copy of Madison Avenue's iconic treatise "Ogilvy on Advertising" on my bookshelves since I was about eleven years-old, someone who still remembers what the old advertising agency acronyms used to stand for, and who, somewhat  mischievously, when conversations I had while working for influential D.C. law firms were getting stale, would drop those agency names into the conversation to see if people were actually paying attention, and thus knew that DDBO and Young & Rubicam (Y&R) were NOT the same as Piper Marbury or Williams & Connolly or Winston & Strawn, I thought that Sunday night's episode of "Mad Men"on AMC , "Mystery Date" was by far the best I'd ever seen.


Mid-1960's TV commercial for Milton Bradley's "Mystery Date" board game.
http://youtu.be/XHsQpTbQ9Uo


AMC-TV video: Talked About Scenes Episode 504 Mad Men: Don's Fever Dream. April 8, 2012. http://youtu.be/PYRdALzZgKI


Vanity Fair
Seconal Is the New Bugles! Mad Men Introduces Sally Draper’s Nascent Pill Addiction
by Juli Weiner 9:28 AM, APRIL 9 2012

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/04/Seconal-Is-the-New-Bugles-emMad-Menem-Introduces-Sally-Drapers-Nascent-Pill-Addiction

I knew I was right today when I turned to Slate's Monday morning rehash of the show here, where lots of smart people paying attention share their hunches and interpretations: 
Don's Mystery Date Goes Bad
By Julia Turner, April 9, 2012
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/tv_club/features/2012/mad_men_season_5/week_3/mad_men_recap_don_and_the_body_under_the_bed_.html 

and lots of fans of say, a more typical Conventional Wisdom mindset, were thrown for a loop. Good!  

See the archives at http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/tv_club.html

Before the new season started a few weeks ago, I came across these pieces and videos on Mad Men's young star Kiernan Shipka and saved them for a rainy day:

Kiernan Shipka as the savvy go-to Child Star psychologist 
http://youtu.be/AjprZrWBh9w


New York Magazine
The Fug Girls Track the Fashion Evolution of Mad Men Daughter Kiernan Shipka 
By The Fug Girls
3/29/12 at 11:45 AM 



Those of you who are new to this blog should know that I have always been intensely interested in advertising and marketing and read everything about them, hence, the previously-referenced David Ogilvy book.

In the pre-Internet years of the early and mid-1980's, when I was home for the summer from IU, and living with my mother near The Falls, i,e. S. Dixie Highway & S.W. 136th Street, in what is now the Village of Pinecrest, I used to weekly drive about a half-hour away to get to the only new stand south of downtown or Brickell that sold Advertising Age, so I could read what was in the real world of marketing and persuasion.

With the newest issue in my hands, whether I read it poolside at the upscale apt. complex pool I lived at or over at the Godfather's Pizza in the retail complex next to the Pearl's crafts shop on S. Dixie Hwy. & 136th Street, taking full advantage of their delicious salad and individual pan pizza, when I read those articles and analysis about campaigns that soared or fizzled or about who was moving where to be the new Creative Director at some hotshot boutique ad shop, I was mentally far from the mortal coil of South Florida.

Here, unfortunately, the local advertising industry was very, very insular and almost seemed to be more in the client hand-holding business than anything else.
To an extent that would be hard for many of you readers to believe now, given how far it has fallen, the advertising world of that time was also very Miami Herald-dependent.

Up until I want to say the mid-to-late 1980's, everything else being equal, working in the Herald's Advertising Dept. was perceived as a pretty cool job where you could make good money and meet a lot of the genuinely clever 'creative' people throughout the region, given that there were no meaningful alternative serious news newspapers, or, alas, a real regional interest magazine that went hard after upscale readers, like The Washingtonian or Chicago Magazine did,once "MIAMI" magazine bit the dust more than a decade before.

Oh yes, I remember "MIAMI" magazine of the late '60's and early '70's!
My mom's office downtown had a subscription to it and New York magazine and always brought home the old copies after everyone had already read them because she knew that I would devour them.
And I did.

The latter was where I first read Nik Cohn's 1976 cover story, "The New Rites of Saturday Night," the story that was later was adapted by Lesley Stahl's screenwriter husband, Aaraon Latham -and James Bridges- into the blockbuster film, "Saturday Night Fever." 
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