i'm a bit late to the 'Mad Men' party but i've been watching it on Neflix and in season 5 episode 8 there's a major DS reference...

Don Draper's wife Megan is an aspiring actress auditioning for soap operas. there's a scene of her reading scripts with a friend and although they don't say it by name she's reading about "Burke Devlin" and "Victoria"   and some other 1966 references. for the record she thinks it sounds "silly' and gets a part on a more traditional soap.

does anyone follow KLS's personal Facebook page?

this weekend she's put out a statement on potential future festivals or lack thereof. she says nothing's been planned for the year (which we pretty much knew) but curiouser and curiouser claims she is not in tough with Jim Pierson at all and is urging US the fans to "reach out to him" directly to plead the case.

Scott has been the principal player in this whole thing for decades. while she accurately states the cast and crew are not the event organizers but simply invited guests i find it astonishing she's not in contact with Pierson on this. she even suggested the fans "take over" the planning and get the mailing list from JP.

has there been some weird backstage falling out? Pierson must be in possession of the financials. and if it's no longer viable than so be it. make that announcement and everyone can move on. but the limbo around it and the fact that Scott's out of the loop is very odd. 

this morning i was up early doing Saturday laundry/chores and found, buried deep on the bottom of a dresser drawer, a black DS 2012 T-shirt with an image of BarnaDepp and the film tagline "Strange is Relative"...

for the life of me i have no idea where this came from. i certainly never bought it. it was never a festival offering (where the film is largely ignored). this has to have been a giveaway somewhere. but where??? i saw the movie opening day but don't recall any promotional giveaways.

does anyone else have this? WHERE did it come from? 

to my astonishment my local CBS news weather person gave DS a shout out this morning for it's 50th. he made a bad pun about today's warm, sunny weather not casting any "dark shadows" and then wished the show a happy 50th.

it was quite surprising.

has registration for the 50th anniversary fest gone out yet? in the past I feel like forms were sent out a few months in advance.


if not who can I contact to register? it's been a few years since I've attended and I'm out of the loop. what are the exact dates?

any information please.

according to 'the dark shadow's news page' actress Elizabeth Wilson, who played Hammond Foundling Home directress "Miss Hopewell" during the show's early weeks, has passed away at 94...

RIP Miss Hopewell. 

Great finale. I'm hoping for a new cast and story next season. Why muck this up with a sequel?

while the "Mina" storyline appears to have reached it's conclusion the episode left viewers with enough "cliffhangers" that one has to assume that the series will pick up where it left off with the same cast of characters...

perhaps new "supporting" characters and a new set of subplots but the main cast I believe is being held firmly in place.

apologies if this subject has already come up...


last night I watched the documentary film 'Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel' about the legendary Vogue and Harper's Bazaar editrix. Vreeland was the inspiration for a fictitious fashion editrix played by Grayson Hall in the 1966 French film 'Qui Etes-Vous, Polly Magoo'. to my pleasant surprise this documentary featured multiple clips of Grayson's outrageous turn in the film.

it's quite interesting in it's own right but Grayson fans should check it out.