"Where's my coffee?" (This MadMom incarnation comes courtesy of my 12-year-old.)
The Twilight Zone turned 50 this month, too...but it never gets old. Much has been said about the suayve and deboyner "Don Draper", but I like to think that his ineffable coolth was modeled on Rod Serling's smoke-gets-in-your-eyes squint and clenched-jaw baritone delivery of existentialist aphorisms. Let's raise an old-fashioned glass to the ad men of The Twilight Zone: the free-falling (with a hard landing) Accounts Guy from (my favorite) "A Stop at Willoughby"; Gig Young's Media Guy from "Walking Distance" (an inferior fraternal twin of "Willoughby", in my estimation—but prominently featuring a carousel); and honorary ad man Dick York's fine comic and dramatic turns in "A Penny for Your Thoughts" and "The Purple Testament" (but was Darrin Stephens Accounts, or Creative?).
Happy Birthday, but you completely lost me with this post. Television ignoramus.
Posted by: Kathy from Cold Climate Gardening | October 14, 2009 at 09:51 PM
Your icon is fun and the choice of dress very cool - belated Happy Birthday!
I'm a decade older than you so didn't have to use technology to MadMen myself ... just used a teenage booth photo for my Twitter icon.
The RodMen idea is thought provoking - couldn't forget Willoughby but couldn't remember the name of the actor. It turns out it was the very handsome James Daly, father of Tyne and Tim, born in Wisconsin. He looks more like Roger than Don in his wikipedia photo.
We rented the DVD's of Mad Men Seasons 1 & 2 this fall and really liked the show. But I didn't think of Rod Serling or the Twilight Zone. Our family watched every Western and those taciturn and ruggedly handsome men came first to mind. Maybe they were in Matthew Wiener's mind, too - heard that he'd had an image of James Garner in mind.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Posted by: Annie in Austin | November 03, 2009 at 10:09 AM