Don Draper may be debonair now, with his hats and his slicked-back shiny black hair, but even Drape-dreamy won't be immune to the havoc the '60s counterculture and the sexual revolution will wreak upon his own personal style. Unless Don turns out to be some sort of fad-resistant holdout dandy like Jack Abramoff, here's a taste of what the 1970s will look like for our fingerbanging hero:
Um, who is Russell Brand? I know that he's hosting the MTV Video Music Awards and that he played himself in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. And I read the profile on him in today's New York Times. But it's weird though. All that information, and I still don't get it. He's like the white Tyler Perry. WHO ARE YOU? WHAT IS ALL THIS? The difference of course being that Tyler Perry's work escapes my understanding as it's directly created for and marketed to a sub-section of the African American population to which i don't belong, where as Russell Brand is RIGHT IN MY WHEELHOUSE and he's BLOWING UP IN MY WHEELHOUSE. OK, so, he's famous in the UK as a stand-up comedian, a television presenter, and now an auto-biographer. What, what, and what?
Let's just take this one at a time. After the jump, a Videogum Field Guide to Russell Brand.
In 1984, a disturbingly already-adult-looking Keanu Reeves was a correspondent for a Canadian show called Going Great (great name, for real.) Here he is interviewing a kid who collects teddy bears, and being really really Canadian together:
Young Keanu reminds me of Alisdair on You Can't Do That On Television, who, whoa, is all grown up now, and bald! Thanks to Ben for the tip.
Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, the 1981 cult girlie punk film starring Diane Lane and Laura Dern as early riot grrrls urging their fellow women to "don't put out!" will finally get a non-theatrical release on DVD in September, just in time for all those hipster Halloween costumes to finally make sense:
Lane, rocking a skunk coif, belts A Waste of Time as female fans chant "We don't put out!" Stains inspired rockers from L7 and Bikini Kill to Courtney Love as it found an afterlife on bootlegs, cable and the art-house film circuit.
There are a few clips from The Fabulous Stains on YouTube, of course.
There's another entry in what will surely be the long annals of pretty ladies on popular TV shows today who played punks on TV shows a long time ago, but we can add Chyler Leigh of Grey's Anatomy to the list that includes Jan from The Office. So turns out that Chyler, who happens to have denied a sex tape on the basis of a "sprawling tattoo" today, played a punk on the short-lived That '70s Show spinoff That' '80's Show. Which appears to have been exactly like a regular awkward sitcom, but with a lot of mauve and beige.
I got an IM from my friend Darci yesterday with some exciting where-were-they-then news about Melora Hardin, aka Steve Carell's on-again-off-again paramour Jan on The Office:
Darci: Melora Hardin from the Office was in a very famous episode of Quincy ME about punks. My friends and I are trying to bring back the term "QuincyPunk" which refers to punk posers. And that led me to finding the clip online and discovering that it was a young Melora Hardin!
And it's true! After the jump, clips from the episode and Melora Hardin in full fake punk getup. The clips are hilarious even without her. "I believe that the music I heard is a killer. It's a killer of hope. It's a killer of spirit."
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