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Adios!
So I opened all the search engines I usually use when finding Vinnie stuffs. I started searching and searching and searching till I finally stopped, opened text edit, and here I am typing my farewell message. I've been thinking about it for quite some time now and I decided to really do it today. At first it was fun updating a fan blog, but it became a dragging chore in the end. And I just really have so many things going on in my life right now that I can't spend my valuable time googling Vincent Kartheiser anymore. Don't get me wrong, I still am and will forever be a fan of such an amazing actor; I'm just no longer interested in updating this LJ.

I like it whenever I give you guys something that makes you squeal. But you're better of going to the LJs of [info]merlinmaus  or [info]aldo_77  instead for your VK fix. If you want to search for VK news on your own, you may use these:

www.blogpulse.com
www.bloglines.com/
technorati.com
www.icerocket.com/
www.topix.net/

And here's a list of other sources: www.abstracts.net/gossip.html

I thought of deleting this LJ so that I won't be tempted to update it, but I figured I'd still like to visit your LJs once in a while, read your interesting thoughts on VK- and non-VK stuffs, and comment on them.

Simply put, I'm a lazy blogger and I have other priorities. So little time, so much to do. I have all the Mad Men Season 2 episodes in my laptop, but I haven't even watched them yet as I just don't have the time. 

What else? I guess that's all I have to say. It's been fun LJ-ing with you.

***Shasha***   

My last hurrah... =(



 Vincent and Some Bunnies



 `Mad Men' stars have fun as anxious Pete and Peggy

NEW YORK – On the "Mad Men" premiere last summer, a boozy Pete Campbell hauled himself from his bachelor party to the door of Peggy Olson's modest Brooklyn apartment.

"I wanted to see you tonight," implored Pete, an overzealous ad account executive who, at that late hour, was gripped by panic at his looming marriage.

Peggy, the winsome new hire in the Sterling Cooper secretarial pool, surprised herself by letting him in.

Airing on AMC Sundays at 10 p.m. EDT, the Peabody Award-winning "Mad Men" now is in its second season. And it has kept Pete and Peggy entangled in multiple ways, none of them romantic and most of them hush-hush (including the child that Pete still doesn't know about).

Fortunately, things are much lighter between Vincent Kartheiser and Elisabeth Moss, who play that pair on the splendid '60s-era drama. In a joint interview, they tease each other, laugh a lot, and seem like pals.

Turns out Kartheiser (at 29, a former regular on "Angel," the spinoff of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") and Moss (who is 26 and played presidential daughter Zoey on "The West Wing") had met before they got "Mad Men." A few years back, both took part in a filmmaking workshop.

"You had a prima donna actor," says Kartheiser in self-appraisal, then nods toward Moss magisterially, "and Miss Perfect."

"Two sides of the coin," chuckles Moss.

Kartheiser recalls a scene: "I had a disease called congenital analgesia, which means I couldn't feel anything. My character was always burning himself with cigarettes and saying, 'Whatever.'"

"And I was supposed to be in love with you," says Moss with a grin.

On "Mad Men," they enjoy far more, um, dramatic leeway.

"At the beginning Peggy was definitely naive," muses Moss, appraising the distance she's come, "and I wouldn't say she's toughened up, but, instead, the problems hitting her now have become bigger. At first, it was learning to use a typewriter, and now it's a baby — with the father of the baby someone she works with."

But she's moving up in the agency. A quick learner, she's now helping create ad campaigns. And she's gingerly overcoming anti-female bias in the workplace — even from Pete Campbell.

Meanwhile, Campbell continues trying to win approval from Don Draper, the magnetic though tormented agency exec at the show's core. But Draper (played by Jon Hamm) hates him. Campbell, for all his skill in the advertising game, lacks people skills. He's sort of a jerk — isn't he?

"Well, it's unfortunate that you see it that way," Kartheiser tells the interviewer with mock indignation. "Some people just AREN'T as likable as others, no matter what they do. Pete Campbell does the same (stuff) as Don Draper, but Draper's way more likable, and gets away with things."

Of course, no sweeping term such as "likability" does justice to the series' world of characters, who, even as they all share screen time, emerge as complex individuals.

"Jon is the lead, and he always has something going on," says Moss. "But I don't think the rest of us feel left out, or that we don't get our moments."

"We trust Matt," says Kartheiser, meaning "Mad Men" mastermind Matthew Weiner. "I don't think anyone in our cast has any doubt that he always has the best story line in mind, and that's what we're there to serve."

"Yesterday he said to me, `The next episode we're shooting is about objects,' and I said, `OK,'" Moss marvels. "He always has this grand idea, and we're just lucky to be part of it."

Moss even feels lucky to have "carried" Peggy's "child." It was a shrewdly gradual plumping-up process that went unrecognized as anything other than weight gain, even by the unwitting mother-to-be — until, much to Peggy's shock on the season finale, she went into labor.

"Over seven episodes, I had four stages of padding and three stages of makeup," says Moss. Friends she hadn't seen in years watched the show and — shades of Kirstie Alley! — worried that she had an eating disorder. "But they didn't want to ask."

"Like: `Did you quit smoking?'" chortles Kartheiser.

But that was last season (and 1960). Now "Mad Men" has progressed to spring 1962.

For Moss, who (like Kartheiser and most of the cast) wasn't born yet, it's a history lesson she is moving through.

"But I've learned more about the similarities than the differences between then and now," she says. "Usually, you look back on another era in terms of the milestones. But at the same time, people were just living their lives."

She might have added: That's where the unexpected drama unfolds, where "Mad Men" lives its life.


Source




 Mad For Men
Hair isn't as much as issue for bad boy Pete Campbell, but calling him a "bad boy" may upset portrayer Vincent Kartheiser.

Tour guide: Vincent Kartheiser

 But we digress, and the next stop is much more interesting: It's Vincent Kartheiser, who we asked what it's like to play Sterling Cooper's resent bad guy.

"We all are a bit of a Pete Campbell," Kartheiser's says. "We all have that little brat in us. He does things that are awkward and uncomfortable. He's the guy in the office who's a douche bag. He's sleazy and says the wrong thing at the wrong time, but he's not a bad guy. He's just trying to get his, and not everyone can get along."

Vincent's prickly Pete

Last year, the little blackmailer tried to use the sad story of Don Draper's stolen identity to his advantage. Clearly, a bad buy move, but it's equally clear Kartheiser doesn't like the label and we can't help but tease him for being so defensive of his character.

"I should be defensive," he laughs good-naturedly. "I've heard that question so much that I've started questioning how much thought is going into it. Ultimately, you have to look beyond the idea of bad guy versus good guy. This is life. This isn't Star Trek. We have no Romulans. Dislike Pete if you want, but I don't think he's the protagonist."

For those who are new to this show, in this world of Mad Men, the Campbell name is quite powerful -- and Kartheiser says that Kennedy-esque reputation leaves his character in a tenuous position.

"It helps and it hurts," he considers. "Pete has this last name that gets him the job, the money and the girl, but he can't outlive it. That's all he'll ever be. Even though he's all these things to his wife, and even though he has great ideas, he's 'just the guy with the good name. What an idiot.' "

There's more going on with this old money man that his coworkers realize, but all they see is the silver spoon dangling from his mouth.

"This guy could probably take a seat on the stock exchange if he wanted to, but he walked away to do something his family disowned him for," Kartheiser said. "His family doesn't respect him at all. They look down on him for his choice. He has big balls and takes a big risk, but no one at the office realizes that."

Mad about dad?

His character takes on more credence this season, now that Pete's lost his unsupportive father in a plane crash. It was certainly eye opening to spend an evening "mourning" with that strange, cold Campbell clan!

And with the story still playing out, the loss is sure to affect the prodigal son. "This comes from a time, the ‘60s, when we actually felt we should do better than our fathers did," Kartheiser says. Whether or not Pete faces his daddy issues, he still has Don Draper to emulate and surpass at the office.

"You're going to start to see more and more parallels between these characters," Kartheiser previews. "It's going to push the onus on the audience to say, 'Why don't you like Pete? What makes him so different from Don?' They both cheat on their wives, they both have secrets..."

But don't mistake Kartheiser's devil's advocate frame of mind for him being his character's fool. He knows why one is beloved, while the other is reviled.

"Don's clever, funny, handsome, strong and simple in the way he approaches things," Kartheiser says. "Pete's condescending and he doesn't realize everyone has a tough life. He reminds a lot of people of rich people they know and I don't think people like people who come with silver spoons."


I only copied the VK/PC bits. For the full 'Going mad for the stars of Mad Men' article, click here.


 Attention Deficit Theatre presents Mad Men S2EP1 and S2EP02
I'm glad ADT is back, although I don't want to read the entire recap for fear of being spoiled. Yap, I haven't seen any season 2 episodes yet. =0

For Those Who Think Young
Flight 1

Episode 1

Scene: Shortly thereafter in the conference room. The account team sits around staring at a plate of sandwiches. Don obviously is late for a meeting.

Kenny: I’m hungry.

Duck: I’m a drunk.

Peggy: I’m really big for my britches now that I’m a copywriter.

All: Shut it. We still don’t respect you. Go find out where Don is.

Paul: Check out the beard I grew during the hiatus. I’m like Orson Welles over here.

Dale: Draper must have knocked Peggy up, then she came back when she was all skinny.

All: Who in the hell are you?

Dale: I’m apparently named Dale. I just showed up without any introduction or backstory.

Pete: Peggy? Knocked up? Oh, don’t make me guffaw. What an entirely ridiculous notion. Ha ha ha ha. No, she went to a fat farm. I thought we had verification.


Scene: The Campbell home. Pete comes in and gives Trudy a heart-shaped box of chocolates.

Pete: Hello, Lovely. Happy Valentine’s Day. Good God, what are you wearing?

Trudy: I know. It’s the most hideous fabric ever. The wardrobe people clearly have it out for me.

Pete:  I really bought that candy for me, not you. Open it. I want one. Because I’m a selfish ass.

Trudy: I’m bitter. Harry’s wife is pregnant and I’m not. And some overly fertile woman I saw on the street pissed me off today. It’s this big club they’re all in together.

Pete: She doesn’t have what you have. And by that I mean a weaselly, gun-toting yet emasculated husband who knocked up the secretary and has a secret love child lurking out there somewhere. I am totally going to snap one of these episodes. Just you wait.


Scene: Montage of various characters at home watching Jackie Kennedy give a White House tour on television

Jackie Kennedy: Hi. I’m disturbingly Stepford-y.  

Salvatore: Where’s her husband? Not that I’d have any reason to look at JFK, mind you.

Kitty: Surprise! You scored a beard during the break! The credits say I’m Kitty Romano, so I guess we’re married. What could possibly go wrong?

Joan: I’m ignoring my doctor boyfriend while he paws me. You just know I’m going to hook up with Roger again. God, I hope he doesn’t croak on me.  

Pete: I’m a cad. I just ate all of Trudy’s candy.

 

Scene: The next day at Sterling-Cooper. The guys are sitting around a table while two young interviewees march by.

Kenny: We’re so screwed. Hey, Harry, congrats on your soon-to-be fat wife.

Harry: Yay, me. I guess we smoothed over that whole “I nailed Hildy the secretary” thing.

Pete: Are you happy?

Harry: Hell yeah. Now I don’t have to prance around the office late at night in my tighty whities for the viewing public to see.


Scene: Pete’s office. The team gathers around to panic about the interviews.

Kenny: Come on, Daddy. How often do you get to celebrate getting some girl pregnant?

Pete: Woo-hoo! Here I come.

Harry: He meant me, dumbass.

Pete: Oh. I knew that. Because I most certainly haven’t ever impregnated anyone. Certainly no one in this room. Speaking of, Peggy, do you want to have kids?

Peggy: Eventually. Can I go now? This is awkward.


Episode 2


Scene: The hallway outside a noisy party.

Pete: This sounds like the place.

Trudy: I’m pretentious. I’m worried about the car. Because this is New Jersey, which clearly is peopled entirely by hooligans.

Pete: We can still go home. This was your idea.

Trudy: But all of these people work for you, you big strong management type, you.

Pete: Huh? Oh, right. Lovely, go easy on that. Some of them don’t feel that way. And, by the way, I’m really a peon and just keep lying to you about my job.

Trudy: What?

Pete: I said a dog peed on me while I was buying a corncob.

Trudy: Swell! Let’s go inside.


Scene: The hallway of Paul’s apartment. Eugene is climbing all over Peggy.

Eugene: Come home with me.

Peggy: Why?

Eugene: Because I live alone. And I’m a good kisser.

Peggy: I’m in the persuasion business. Frankly, I’m disappointed by your presentation. Now, if you were married and carried large firearms around the workplace, I’d let you violate me on unsuspecting office furniture at 8:30 a.m.

Pete’s Couch Cushion: She ain’t kidding, buddy.


Scene: The next day in the Sterling-Cooper office. Roger and Don walk in and find everyone standing around the radio.

Roger: Excuse me. This is a place of business.

Paul: Shut it. A plane went down. American Airlines flight 1 to L.A.

Peggy: Well, that sucks. Speaking of sucking, I’m randomly bringing a massive vacuum to the office. Carry on.

Don: Cancel everything in production for Mohawk Airlines. We don’t want everyone opening the morning paper and seeing a Mohawk ad next to a picture of a floating engine. Now stop crying and figure out how we’ll hit the ground running in three weeks.

Paul and Duck: Sure thing. But first, let’s tell inappropriate jokes about plane crashes.

Pete: Hey, me, too! Has Head and Shoulders been invented yet? I have great jokes about that.

 

Scene: Later in Don’s office

Don: Hidey. What’s going on?

Pete: I just got off the phone with my brother. My father was on that plane.

Don: Oh. Wait, I know this one. Did he have dandruff?

Pete: I’m serious. I don’t know what to do.

Don: Go home.

Pete: I don’t know how old he was. Am I supposed to cry?

Don: You’re in shock. Go home and be with your family.

Pete: Ewww. Why?

Don: Because that’s what people do.

Pete: Is that what you would do?

Don: Yeah. Well, first I’d probably drink myself into a stupor, and then I’d wander to the Village and service my old mistress. Then I’d get my boss drunk and full of oysters so he’d puke right on cue in front of a room full of clients. Oh, and I’d drive my long-lost brother to suicide. But then I’d totally go home to what’s her name.

Pete: Betty?

Don: Oh. Right.


Scene: The Campbell house. The family is gathered around to talk about arrangements.

Trudy: Hey, here is an idea. Let us never use contractions and deliver our lines like we are catatonic.

Pete: Good idea, Lovely. OK, Mom. You go first.

Pete’s Mom: I shall cancel my trip to Sarasota. There is so much to do. Hey, what is that?

Trudy: What, this garish elephant statue behind me?

Pete’s Mom: Take it. I want you to have it.

Trudy: Are we terrible actors or great actors? Are we really supposed to talk like this?

Bud’s Wife: He was such a fine man. My father admired him.

Trudy: What a nice thing to say.

Bud’s Wife: I like to offer a nice bouquet of thoughts. OK, that's it. Who wrote this crap? Are we really supposed to believe people talk like this? I went to Julliard, dammit. It's the writing, people, not the acting.

Bud: Hey, Pete. Dad was broke

Pete: Crap. What about the old lady’s money?

Bud: Not so much. Dad sucked that away, too.

Pete: Double crap.

Mom: Father called you Salt and Pepper.

Pete and Bud: P-push it real good!


Scene: Another restaurant. Duck is meeting with Shel Knealy from American when Pete shows up.

Duck: We stupidly jumped the gun and fired Mohawk.

Shel: God, that was dumb. We have no idea what are plans are.

Pete: Hidey. Your plane just killed my dad.

Shel: Wait, I know this one. Head and shoulders, right?

Pete: I'm serious.

Shel: Oh. I'll pass that along. Maybe there's an opportunity for us after all.

Pete: Woo-hoo!


If you missed the Season 1 recaps, you can check them out here.


 Q&A - Vincent Kartheiser (Pete Campbell)
In this exclusive interview with AMCtv.com, Vincent Kartheiser discusses his character Pete Campbell, not to mention the actors portraying him in the "You Could Be on Mad Men Contest."


Q: Episode 2 has Pete coping with the death of his father -- and you coping with the death of Christopher Allport, the late actor who played him.  What was that like?

A: Christopher Allport was really great. We only had one scene with him last year, but it was a great scene. And I think the way Matthew [Weiner] handled it in the show is amazing because he doesn't play to that obvious reaction. The death of someone so pivotal in your life really creates a self-analysis...I think the bigger question about the episode is "How are we supposed to respond in certain situations? What am I supposed to be doing now that this thing has hit?" This is a very small and bad analogy, but I just had a flood at my house, and I looked at my house full of mud and I was like, "What am I supposed to do?" I knew there was something I should be doing in this situation, and I think emotionally that's what Pete's going through. I'm just thankful that my parents will live forever, because that's just how it's going to happen, okay?




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