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Friday, June 13, 2014

The trailer for ARE YOU HERE gives you the full Selby



MAD MEN creator Matthew Weiner shot his first feature film ARE YOU HERE in North Carolina last year, and you'll get the chance to see it in a few months. The film stars Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis and Amy Poehler, as well as one David Lynn Selby in a prominent supporting role. I've got no idea how much Selby will appear in the film, but the role is large enough to get him in several scenes of the new trailer, which hit the Internet last night.

It's not the first collaboration between David Selby and Matthew Weiner. In 2009, Selby appeared in an episode of MAD MEN titled "The Arrangements," while DARK SHADOWS, the show that gave Selby's career its first big boost, was a plot point on an episode titled, naturally, "Dark Shadows."

ARE YOU HERE premiered last fall at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it appears to have mostly been overlooked by critics (except for this writer at Indiewire that insists on referring to the film as "YOU ARE HERE.") It opens in America Aug. 22. You can watch the film's trailer below.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Maggie Evans Vs. Megan Draper, Round 2

Jessica Paré as Megan Draper on AMC's MAD MEN.
Actress/writer KATHRYN LEIGH SCOTT takes the television show MAD MEN to task in a feature column over at VARIETY. Well, it's not so much the program she had a problem with, as much as it is the negative attitude expressed by character Megan Draper about auditioning for a "piece of crap" program called DARK SHADOWS. According to Scott, one of the stars of DARK SHADOWS, Megan needs to quit her whining. Here a sample of her thoughts about hearing the '60s horror serial trashed on MAD MEN:
Kathryn Leigh Scott
Megan’s trajectory as a young actress in New York was quite different from mine, probably because I did not live in a Park Avenue apartment with a handsome, wealthy ad exec while launching an acting career. Any actor who’s lived in a spooky fifth-floor walkup with five deadbolts knows what I’m talking about. That’s probably why I more readily identify with Julia, who pointedly told Megan, “Some of us act for a living and we wait tables when we don’t.”

That was my life, too.
You can read the rest HERE.

Megan Draper's sour words about DARK SHADOWS isn't the only connection between the two soaps. Actor DAVID SELBY, who played immortal rogue Quentin Collins on the '60s soap, has appeared on MAD MEN, as has JOANNA GOING (Victoria Winters in the 1991 DARK SHADOWS "revival") and MARLEY SHELTON (Victoria Winters in the unaired 2004 DARK SHADOWS television pilot.)

From left, DARK SHADOWS alumni MARLEY SHELTON, JOANNA GOING and DAVID SELBY on MAD MEN.
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