Meet the Reader - Scfan
Name: Kathey H.
Hometown: Oklahoma City, OK
Age: 57
Profession: Homemaker (former secretary -- eons ago).
As a fan of classic movies like Gone with the Wind and Giant, Kathey H. remembers fondly the days when AMC played movies from an older era. "I loved watching movies from my childhood and teenage/dating/college years," she says, which might explain why she took an instant shine to Mad Men. One of the first commenters on the Mad Men Talk forum, Scfan's enthusiastic musings about the show -- ranging from general praise to plot predictions to episode analyses -- are both numerous and detailed: "Did anyone catch that picture of a young Roger -- and his father, I presume -- there on Bert's side table? Makes me wonder if maybe the ad agency was started by Bert and Roger's father," she once predicted.
Ask her why she loves the show, and Kathey quips, "How long have you got?" Besides admiring how "even the small moments will eventually fit in to the larger puzzle," she also recognizes the parallels between the show and old movies: "It's fun to watch because it takes me back to when I was a secretary, and I enjoy seeing from my adult perspective things that I only observed from a child's back then."
For whatever the reason, Kathey H. is in every way a card-carrying -- and in the words of one enthusastic forum fan -- Maddict. To that she has only one response: "Maddicts Unite!"
Meet the Reader is a monthly feature on AMCtv.com. Do you have a strong opinion about films? Share them on the Talk forums and you could be next month's featured fan.
Thanks, Clayton for the neat write-up. I was honored to be chosen and I love my Mad Men mug! Here's hoping MM wins all Emmys it's nominated for!
SCFAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm so honored to know the real scfan. Just yesterday I mentioned to Dry Manhattan, how I would love to know the real names of the people I talk to on the site and one of them was you. You are coming to L.A. to visit me right? I too love GWTW and have Giant and watch them often! And I bet that was really a picture of you not Gidget! See you on the blogs and congratulations for being picked out as the best fan!
Thanks Nora! I don't know if I would call it being chosen "best fan" but I would admit to being the most RABID fan in a heartbeat!
......(ah-ahem).......can i have your autograph?
does anyone know who the very first poster was on the MM site? are they still here?
it's so nice to meet you Kathey!
Kathey/Gidget: okay! Congratulations, and loved seeing your "pic" up there! Nice interview! Love talking to you, too, and reading your comments.....you're a doll!
Thanks, Nora, Dry Manhattan, jamm54! So sweet of you to read my write-up. Clayton is a good writer, huh?
I wish I knew who the first poster was, too...was it you jamm?????...I think you were already here when I came aboard! ha
Oh, here's my autograph, Dry...now don't you go selling it on Ebay!!!!!
No, I didn't start posting until May or June 2008 (after I got my new laptop!), you were here before me. But I watched MadMen most of their first season in 2007. Looks like we'll be getting Season 3!!! Okay, Kathey, my real name is Jan.
Gosh, jamm, it seems like forever since we all got on here gushing right and left about our new "treasure" (MM) doesn't it?
I remember watching "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" waaaayy back there when it premiered and about the time Pete and Don were standing there and Pete was spouting his "I'd follow..." lame smarminess to Don to which he replied "...because no one will like you" I thought...this is reeeaaaaallllly something special...and the rest is addictive history.
I wish someone would post somewhere on the forums though who thinks they might be (at least among) the very first posters. Maybe we all kind of came on at around the same time..??
Hey,Claaaaaayton!!!! Can you maybe look way back there on the first posts and see who it was? (the "first poster") I think THAT PERSON should get a mug (or whichever prize they choose) just for that! Just a thought...