We think you’ll be as delighted as we to learn of the very strong connection between the Connecticut news media and the AMC show “Mad Men”. Photographer Chion Wolf, who wears many hats at WNPR including a new on-air role on Colin McEnroe’s show, has a sibling in the cast. “Paul Kinsey” (beard, pipe) is her big brother (real name Michael Gladis). Who knew that Paul the Princetonian (and burgeoning beatnik) was from Farmington, Connecticut?? Today Colin’s show was devoted to Mad Men with Gladis on the line for the full hour. It was terrific radio as ad executives from the era were also involved, arguing back and forth whether the show accurately portrays the era.
Huge fan from first episode. Great production. Yeah CT connection.
I am blown away!
LOVE Chion, LOVE Mad Men, and would LOVE to meet her brother…
I listened to Colin’s show and I thought one of the “real” ad men from back in the day was way too hung up on the idea that “Mad Men” doesn’t exactly replicate the Madison Avenue experience that he remembers.
While I can appreciate his concern that people watching the show might think these folks smoked and drank way too much, I think that he’s taking the show too literally. I’m sure some ad firms did behave in this way, as did some segments of society that weren’t in the advertising game.
Matt Weiner’s work is nuanced and does a great job capturing a time when America was changing at a tremendous pace.
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It was a great show. But I wish someone from Wilson, Haight, Welch had called in. The folks who worked there ( Offices on Constitution Plaza ) were Hartford’s Mad Men. WHW was big in the 60s. Jim Wagner was creative director. WHW spawned many Hartford area ad agencies. I was a creative director at one of them in the 80s. Oh what a time that was. But it paled in comparison to the 60s, when everything was starting to change.