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― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 02:55 (seven years ago) link
Two characters I love who only show up intermittently but were around for pretty much the show's entire run: Mona, Roger's wife, and his secretary Caroline. IMDB has Mona listed for 13 episodes from 2007-2014 (one more than Bob Benson, two fewer than Rachel Menken, Freddie Rumsen, Jane Sterling, Jim Cutler, and Carla); Caroline has fewer seasons (2010-2015) but more episodes, 20 (exactly the same as three other prominent secretaries, Alison, Meredith, and Hildy--weird). Something I completely missed until I started looking at credits: Teyonah Parris, who played Dawn, played the lead character in Chi-Raq.
― clemenza, Thursday, 16 March 2017 15:22 (seven years ago) link
Mona + Caroline are both wonderful
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 March 2017 15:44 (seven years ago) link
Mona strikes me as a version of two of '66/'67's iconic female movie characters, Elizabeth Taylor in Virginia Woolf and Anne Bancroft in The Graduate. But she feels more real to me.
The Roger-Peggy interplay in Season 7A's final two episodes (too lazy to switch threads) is phenomenal: dancing to "My Way," Don handing over the Burger Chef presentation to Peggy, Peggy's presentation. It's nice, after so much debauchery and instances of letting everyone in his life down, to see Don recapture some of his stature from the first couple of seasons (not that he wasn't philandering around then, but there was something a lot more solid there). Peggy bringing her neighbor's boy into her presentation is such a Don touch.
― clemenza, Thursday, 16 March 2017 16:52 (seven years ago) link
The actress who plays Mona, Talia Balsam, is John Slattery's wife in real life.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 16 March 2017 21:40 (seven years ago) link
Had no idea. Just looked her up, and it's even more interesting than that: Martin's daughter (suspected that might be true), also George Clooney's ex-wife.
― clemenza, Thursday, 16 March 2017 22:16 (seven years ago) link
and dick van patten's niece!
― mizzell, Friday, 17 March 2017 00:23 (seven years ago) link
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― clemenza, Friday, 17 March 2017 02:41 (seven years ago) link
Saw Bombshell today. Both Duck Phillips and Lou Avery are in it...it's almost like they raided Mad Men when they were casting for creeps.
― clemenza, Thursday, 23 January 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BnZ66wCCAAAtigB.jpg
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 January 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link
"You know who else they laughed at?""You?"
― clemenza, Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
one of my fave exchanges from the show
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link
Forgot about Woke Pete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwviZz4wQ4s
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 May 2022 21:33 (two years ago) link
Kartheiser is grossly underrated as an actor I think
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 20 May 2022 22:09 (two years ago) link
what kind of monster watches dramas with motion smoothing on
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 20 May 2022 22:41 (two years ago) link
Harry, probably.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 May 2022 22:46 (two years ago) link