{"id":9488,"date":"2010-10-20T20:05:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T19:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=9488"},"modified":"2010-10-20T20:17:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T19:17:10","slug":"matthew-weiner-talks-mad-men-on-kcrw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/10\/20\/matthew-weiner-talks-mad-men-on-kcrw\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Weiner talks Mad Men on KCRW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Matthew-Weiner-with-Elvis-Mitchel-on-KCRW-and-NPR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9489\" title=\"Matthew Weiner with Elvis Mitchel on KCRW and NPR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Matthew-Weiner-with-Elvis-Mitchel-on-KCRW-and-NPR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0804503\/\">Mad Men<\/a> creator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matthew_Weiner\">Matthew Weiner<\/a><\/strong> recently sat down for a lengthy interview about the show with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elvis_Mitchell\">Elvis Mitchell<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/\">KCRW<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/\">NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion is nearly an hour long and touches on various aspects of the show, including: his work on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Sopranos\">The Sopranos<\/a> and how it connected to Mad Men;\u00a0how he cast\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jon_Hamm\">Jon Hamm<\/a> as Don Draper; the fact that a lot of the cast are from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Midwestern_United_States\">the Midwest<\/a>; his background growing up in California; and\u00a0the influence of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0066892\/\">Carnal Knowledge<\/a> (1971).<\/p>\n<p>You can listen below:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"424\" height=\"268\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/etc\/programs\/tt\/tt101014upclose_matthew_wein\/embed-audio\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"424\" height=\"268\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/etc\/programs\/tt\/tt101014upclose_matthew_wein\/embed-audio\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amctv.com\/originals\/madmen\/\">Mad Men<\/a> at AMC<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mad_Men\">More about Mad Men<\/a> at Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner recently sat down for a lengthy interview about the show with Elvis Mitchell for KCRW and NPR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,26],"tags":[615,1609],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}