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People who play petulant brats on TV shows I adore did a photo shoot together

2010 May 17
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by TopIdol

Photographer Tyler Shields recently did a shoot featuring Mad Men’s Vincent Kartheiser (Pete Campbell) and Adam Lambert BFF/Caprica’s Alessandra Torresani (Zoe Greystone/Original Cylon).

(You know who Tyler Shields is, right? If not, you’ve still seen the famous Zachary Quinto gets drenched in milk video…right? And those recent Lindsey Lohan is bloody and on the floor not because she fell photos…right?)

Why am I posting this? Oh yeah. Because Mad Men and Caprica are two of my real-life favorite TV shows. I often want to smack both Pete Campbell AND Zoe Greystone when watching their respective shows, but in a good way, like, the they’re-really-good-at-playing-unlikeable-spoiled-brats way. As opposed to the bad way, when one often wants to smack Betty Draper (January Jones) for being the most-wooden-pouty-actress-playing-a-spoiled-brat way.

This is also a good time to officially announce that Top Idol will soon be featuring recaps on a fictional TV show for the first time ever. Starting in July, you can get my take on the fourth season of Mad Men, which was obviously inevitable if you’ve spent any time reading my shit blog.

Spread the word. Do it.
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  • justpeachy

    Did Pete just set that woman on fire? I love Mad Men so much. If it were the only show I ever saw for the rest of my life, I would be a happy woman!!!!!!

    I’ve never seen Vincent Kartheiser in anything but Mad Men, so I googled him. Wikipedia claims he lives like a monk – no car and no toilet in his house.

  • maturin

    I love Kartheiser. When he was on “Angel,” he had to play a sulky teenager who f*cked his father’s girlfriend who had taken care of him as a baby.

    There was time travel and demonic possession involved, but the combination of the fresh-faced VK, playing a virginal boy, and uber-tanned and tweezed MILF Charisma Carpenter was ALL kinds of ick.

    And yet, Vincent was really, really good at it. He has a gift for turning his petulent prettiness into something darker and creepier and yet sympathetic.

  • SmartPoptart

    Mad Men recaps!!! YES YES YES.

    • CayKat

      That was me just now. I.CAN’T.WAIT.

  • FreeDavidCook

    Who knew Vincent had the zexy inside him. Good look for him instead of all that earnest well scrubbed boyishness.

  • auntieaimee

    Is it wrong of me to think this look is really working for him? I mean, normally he looks about 12, but the facial hair makes him look all growed up. But, still. He’s frigging Pete and Pete’s a creep.

  • deez

    Haha!!! With AI, it was BAD show/GREAT recap. Now, It’s GREAT show/GREAT recap!! Oh yeah! (now if they’d just bring back Sal…oh yeah, is Elizabeth Moss doing a migraine med commercial?…cuz I swear that was Peggy talking about headaches)

    • deez

      nevermind…yeah, that’s her. I should Google before asking stupid questions.

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      I know! Excedrin! Isn’t it weird?

      Elisabeth Moss is a $cientologist, too. This always makes me really sad.

      • jukejoint

        That she married the annoying and unfunny Fred Armison always depresses me. I wonder if that means he’s a $cientologist, too. Ugh.

        • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

          I don’t think so, but who knows by now. She was BORN & RAISED. Eeek.

    • jukejoint

      Oh! Oh! You reminded me! I saw Promises Promises last week on Broadway, the one with Sean Hayes (he was very good and charming) and Kristin Chenoweth (she was orange and hard, not in a good way), and a lot of people have remarked how that particular show and its Burt Bacharach zesty pop 60s score were revived because of Mad Men and the 60s popularity thing. And in Promises Promises, the bad Mr. Sheldrake, who is the boss boffing Our Girl Fran Kubelik, even though Our Boy CC Baxter would be much better for her, has a secretary who he has previously boffed and she’s the one who tells Our Girl Fran the truth about what a heel their boss Mr. Sheldrake is. And what is the name of Mr. Sheldrake’s secretary and former boffee? Why, Peggy Olson.

      Coincidenza??

      • deez

        Hmmmmmmmm………I say no!

        I love Sean Hayes!!!! (I want to use some forbidden tard language, but I won’t)

        • jukejoint

          He’s quite adorable in the role. I’m sure you’ve heard about the Newsweek flap over some idiotic columnist saying that Sean Hayes and Jonathan Goff (of Glee) are both too gay and fey to play straight romantic leads in PP and Glee.

          It’s bunk. He’s fine, he’s cute, I wanted to adopt him and take him home and have him sing to me afterwards. I do agree, to a certain extent, that he doesn’t have sizzling chemistry with Kristin Chenoweth, but that seems to be a lot more HER than HIM. She doesn’t have chemistry with Tony Goldwyn (Mr. Meldrake), either, and now that I think about it, the only other performer she has had chemistry with was Idina Menzel. I think Cheno is kind of a hard, cold fish. A hard, cold fish with a great voice, but still… But Sean Hayes had smasho, socko chemistry with Katie Finneran, who plays this hilarious trashy woman who tries to pick him up in a bar on Christmas Eve when they’re both sloshed. I kind of wanted him to keep her and let Cheno’s character die. She was very orange and scrawny and unpleasant, like an Oompa Loompa with a Malibu Barbie wig.

          So I say we should not blame the lack of chemistry on the adorable Sean Hayes, and instead point it right at Oompa Loompette.

  • On The Edge

    And I am happy to say that now that I have AMC, thanks to DirecTV (fuck you, Metrocast, haha!), I will finally get to watch “Mad Men!” My spousal unit is already grateful that he can finally watch “Breaking Bad.”