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"The death of someone so pivotal in your life really creates a self-analysis... I think the bigger question about the episode is 'How are we supposed to respond in certain situations?'" -- Vincent Kartheiser (Pete Campbell)
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Mad Men’ Fashion: Then & Now
Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) - “I’m really inspired by Frank Sinatra and the whole Rat Pack in Pete’s style and design. I love all the different blue suits of the period. You see the kind of blues you just don’t see today. They’re wider and brighter. It would be a total fashion thing for the period. I think of him as the younger generation—what’s happening, what’s to come. I always call it the ‘Pete Campbell Blue.’ I keep him in variations—the sharkskin blue, or that brighter blue. Or this year, because a little bit of time has gone by and he’s matured a little bit more, to do a blue-green plaid. He always has some Pete Campbell blue in his costume, whether it be the tie or the suit.”
The Contemporary Pete: “Gosh, I don’t know. Nobody really makes those blue suits. The cut is very narrow—so maybe John Varvatos. I think he’s doing the narrow, slim, slim cut. Tom Ford, maybe along those lines.”
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The art of darkness
The Mad Men effect is everywhere. Only this morning, I opened a glossy magazine, and there was an ad for Aquascutum in which all the models had Brilliantined hair and looked exactly like Mr Junior Accounts, Pete Campbell (the superb Vincent Kartheiser).
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NBC suffers at the first and only Season Fin-Ali Awards
Best Season Finale — “Meditations in an Emergency”, “Mad Men” After a darker, more turbulent second season, all the character arcs and plot lines came to a head against the backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Great drama and awesome acting from Elizabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser and John Hamm made for the best hour of TV drama this year.
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‘Mad Men’: Meditations in an emergency
Finally, the most intriguing events of this episode involved Peggy Olson. At church with her mother during the missile crisis, Peggy encounters Father Gill, who exhorts her to confess her sins since they might all be meeting their maker a bit sooner than expected. Peggy doesn’t bite, but the message seems to have been delivered, though Peggy’s interpretation ends up taking quite a twist from what Father Gill intended. As the missile crisis heightens, Pete drinks alone at Sterling Cooper, his wife having departed to Delaware with her parents. As Peggy is leaving for the day, Pete invites her into his office and confesses his love for her -- "I want to be with you," he says. She says that she could have had him if she’d wanted -- she could have shamed him into being with her. He’s confused, understandably. “You got me pregnant,” she says. “I had a baby, and I gave it away.” He can’t believe it –- Vincent Kartheiser played this very well, the confusion and anguish -– but Peggy repeats the information. She wanted other things, she says, and she describes a feeling of having shed a piece of herself and realizing it's just gone. She leaves him alone in his office, dismayed and shattered. Later, we see him still sitting in his office, now holding a rifle, while Peggy, at home, climbs into bed, at peace and smiling. That was a nice reversal, and I’m intrigued to see how the characters of Peggy and Pete play out next season. Assuming Pete is still alive.
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Mad Men' more happy now
And the men? The worst may be the scheming Pete Campbell.
“I think we're all kind of Pete,” said Vincent Kartheiser, who plays him. “I don't think it's a great stretch — at least, not for me.”
At first, “Mad Men” might seem like a fairly one-dimensional satire of a departed era. There is, however, much more.
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THE 1 DEEPEST CREEP ON "MAD MEN"
Pete Campbell is the slippery, competitive, blackmailing, lying, childish account executive at the Sterling Cooper Ad Agency. And this season, actor Vincent Kartheiser is doing a rich job of bringing him to life in all his hollow misery. Ah, there's nothing like a good, complicated villain. Kartheiser has Campbell's malevolence written into the very shape of his face.
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Suits and lies
She increasingly seems like a soulmate for Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser), a Machiavellian account executive frantically trying to live up to the expectations of others. Kartheiser gives the show's most weirdly memorable performance. With his youthful demeanor, slicked-back hair and glassy eyes, he comes across like an evil ventriloquist dummy of himself. Campbell's vicious instincts prove so ineffectual that the corporate system seems as arbitrary for men as it is rigged against women.
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Sexy Mad Men's Set Secrets Revealed!
CAMPBELL'S SCOOP: Clad in a hipster tee, jeans and Skechers, Vincent Kartheiser looked all of 16 (save for the scruff he was sporting). Holding court in his character's office, he explained to reporters that Pete Campbell rubs Don and the other veteran admen the wrong way because he's "ahead of the curve. Pete's right about a lot of this s--t, and they don't want him to be."
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Details help 'Mad Men' capture '60s
Put on a suit and tie, says Vincent Kartheiser, who plays ad man Pete Campbell, and things change. "Part of the show is boys pretending to be men. We're all men here, but we're also 14-year-old boys. There's a large part of these guys that are just kids playing advertising, playing dress-up every day."
Instantly, Kartheiser says, he understood what Weiner wanted to say. Sure, "Mad Men" is set in another era. But its lessons are ones that have resonance for subsequent generations.
His Pete Campbell may be a cad, but he has a distinct part to play in the revolutionary world of advertising. "I know he's a plot device. I get that...but the words just jumped off the page to me."
Plopping the characters in the middle of historic situations has never been the goal, Weiner says. Often, the "trickle-down" effect is more interesting. "How many people lied about going to Woodstock?" he says. "With history, we only get the juicy parts. But it's really so much more complicated than that. All of us knows somebody who just froze senior year in high school."
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Classic fashion the star of AMC's stylish show 'Mad Men'
"I have a lot of three-piece suits for him and a lot of double-breasted suits," Bryant said.
She also adds a bit of color -- blues and golds -- and more accessories.
"I also like that he has a little bit of flash. He's the boss, he's successful," she said.
Then there's conniving upstart Pete Campbell, played by Vincent Kartheiser.
"I see him as Frank Sinatra in a way, so he has that Pete Campbell blue, and I also have incorporated some of the blue green and accents of silver."
Ring-a-ding-ding!
Credits: Post-gazette
It's a mad 'Mad' world
Advertising hotshot Pete Campbell leaned back in his chair, planted his feet on the desk and offered his guest a midafternoon shot of Jameson whiskey. One swig later, the sobering truth was revealed: The booze is really salt water.
It's about the only thing fake within spitting distance.
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"It helps a lot," said Minnesota-raised actor Vincent Kartheiser, who plays Campbell and was playing tour guide on a recent day off. "It's not just the attention to detail. It's the idea behind the detail. It's not just to be there. It all serves a deeper purpose."
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Costuming 'Mad Men'
And the wardrobe may be having an effect. Actor Vincent Kartheiser, who plays unctuous young ad man Pete Campbell, said when he gets fitted for suits and shirts now, he's more exacting.
"I'm like, this shirt is not a 14-and-a-half. You need to bring this in. I need it tight!" he said, smiling broadly.
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‘Mad Men’s’ cast and crew ground show in reality
Decked out in jeans and a well-worn T-shirt, Kartheiser’s youthful appearance belies the sycophantic account executive he plays.
“To say that because these characters come from a different era, that they are this whole different breed of human, it just isn’t going to work,” he said. “I think you hear now, ‘Oh, kids are growing up so fast.’ But we’ve always had weird ideas about how fast people grow up. I personally think people are always the same. People are growing up the same now as they were then.”
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'Mad Men' season 2 starts tonight
Kartheiser, meanwhile, has one of the show's toughest roles. His Pete is ambitious, shallow, and occasionally cruel, but he's also a poor little rich boy whose family looks down on him. Perhaps that's why he constantly seeks approval from the perennially disapproving Don.
Pete's role is somewhat small in the premiere but, in the season's second episode, he takes center stage, and Kartheiser is astonishing. He makes Pete sympathetic without making him soft.
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The younger generation (who would now be in their 70s) is represented by Sterling Cooper newcomer Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser), a newlywed uncertain of his place in the male pecking order.
Kartheiser says there is humor laced through the darkness, especially when looking back at some of the little things about the 1960s. In one episode, for example, his character has to return a wedding gift, a newfangled "chip and dip" party dish that his co-workers find ridiculous.
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Smoking, Drinking and Sex (At Work)
Certainly, as Emmy-nominated star Jon Hamm, who plays protagonist Don Draper, points out, “The HR department would be very busy right now at Sterling Cooper if it was 2008 and these people behaved that way.” There are rules and laws protecting against sexist comments and conduct. But that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. “It’s just gone undercover. Men are still pigs. And women are too,” insists Vincent Kartheiser, who plays Pete Campbell. “I grew up with four sisters. You can’t fool me! When it comes to a group of guys and girls, we’re all pigs!”
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AMC's 'Mad Men' sharply nails a passionate era
Campbell emerges as a degraded carbon copy of Draper, handing his wife a box of Valentine's chocolates he bought on the way home from work. Draper treated Betty to a night in a swanky Manhattan hotel the same night, and Campbell eventually ate all the candies himself.
"He's a young man who wants what he thinks he deserves," said Vincent Kartheiser, who plays Campbell as a twisted rich kid, disowned by his family for choosing advertising instead of continuing the family business as a stockbroker. "And he's willing to throw a lot of people under the bus to get what he deserves. That's a scary thing."
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'Mad Men' is cool blast from the past
Kartheiser said there's "a lot of trust among this cast" in Weiner and the writing staff because of how great it's been so far."
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Critics Picks
There are plenty of reasons to look forward to the second season of AMC's acclaimed drama series "Mad Men" (premieres 10 p.m. EDT Sunday). But while relishing scenes between Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and his wife, Betty (January Jones), or Draper and his cad of a boss, Roger Sterling (John Slattery), this season I find myself most drawn to scenes that feature Draper's ambitious underling Peter Campbell. Vincent Kartheiser does a great job with Campbell's sometimes awkward, sometimes smooth, sometimes downright pathetic antics, revealing his dark urges, vulnerable turns and outright confusion with stunning authenticity. Kartheiser's flexibility as an actor is on particularly fine display in the second episode of the season, when Campbell's desperate search for some guidance during a crisis is utterly heartbreaking.
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On the ‘Mad Men’ set, success sells
Vincent Kartheiser, who plays the ambitious account executive Pete Campbell, sees the clothes as a metaphor. “Part of this show is actually boys pretending to be men,” he said. “There’s a large portion of this office of guys playing advertiser. They’re just playing dress-up.”
“I like playing Pete,” added Kartheiser. “I don’t know if I like Pete. But it’s fun to do some of the things he does.” Like trying to blackmail Draper — who viewers learned last season wasn’t who he appeared to be and reinvented himself — into giving him a promotion.
Credits: The Buffalo News
The TCA ‘Mad Men’ Set Visit: No, I Didn’t Steal Any Ashtrays
Cast members Vincent Kartheiser, who plays scheming snake Pete Campbell, and Elisabeth Moss, who portrays Peggy Olson—and had Campbell’s illicit baby in the shocking finale of the first season—are busy defending their characters.
“He’s a very human and normal character, and I think he’s all of us,” Kartheiser tells a scrum of reporters. “We’re all a little bit of Pete Campbell. We all have that whiny little brat in us.”
Kartheiser argued that Hamm’s Draper, who has quite a checkered past, is no angel.
“Draper is not exactly noble, he’s just attractive and understated…He’s just more naturally likable,” Kartheiser said.
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It’s an Easy Sell
Vincent Kartheiser, who portrays Pete Campbell, an ambitious young account executive, was doubling as armchair sociologist today, and explained the popularity of a series that depicts America’s optimistic New Frontier era as rotten at its core. “There is a large portion of America that doesn’t feel about America the way we did in 1960, and I think we want to know why we don’t,” said Mr. Kartheiser, 29. “We want to know what went wrong.”
Credits: The NY Times
Mad For 'Men':Are You Missing One Of TV's Best Shows?
The younger generation (who would now be in their 70s) is represented by Sterling Cooper newcomer Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser), a newlywed uncertain of his place in the male pecking order.
Kartheiser says there is humor laced through the darkness, especially when looking back at some of the little things about the 1960s. In one episode, for example, his character has to return a wedding gift, a newfangled "chip and dip" party dish that his co-workers find ridiculous.
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Catching Up with Mad Men
Vincent Kartheiser's character Pete has had some very offbeat moments, and the actor was asked how he approached those different facets he's asked to play. Said Kartheiser, "I think the interesting thing about doing television is you get the opportunity to show a lot of parts of a character that probably that person wouldn't even show to the whole world." While Kartheiser is sure we're seeing plenty of moments that Pete would never share with his colleagues, he said that it wasn't, "a great stretch for me to imagine him doing most of those things."
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'Mad Men' creator Weiner is obsessive about the details
In the office of unctuous young ad man Pete Campbell, actor Vincent Kartheiser sat at his character's desk, a football trophy on the credenza behind him.
"Every day I come in here and I get made fun of for that (trophy) by Jon Hamm and Slats, who could both beat me up with one hand tied behind their backs," he said, using a nickname for Slattery. "I have the idea that Pete bought it at a garage sale. I haven't asked Matt yet. I can't wait for the day for Matt to come in with a story line around this Heisman Trophy I have."
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