Love watching Don Draper struggle with his gorgeous wife, prestigious clients, and of course… himself? Then you must be rich, or at least reasonably unaccustomed to the idea of finding your dinners like this. According to a recent Hollywood Reporter write-up, almost half of Mad Men’s 1.9 million viewers make at least $100,000 a year. Basically if you watch the show, you can’t possibly be reading this post (or… maybe you can). But really, what about Brokesters like us? Do people outside the show’s supposed lofty tax-bracket simply not watch? No, we can personally attest: We’re watching Don and Bets with the rest of them. We’re just watching differently. 
Brokelyn poll: How do you take your Mad Men?
Documentary wants in on your Brooklyn lovin’
Brooklyn Kinda Love?
What is Brooklyn love? Is it some near-impossible fantasy ideal? Or is it something else entirely, something a few roses shy of ideal? Whatever our borough’s own brand of love is or isn’t, it’s going to be the subject of Brooklyn Kinda Love, an upcoming documentary (read: reality show?) searching for a few game Brooklyn couples to be its stars. We don’t know all the details, but the show’s being produced by some of the folks behind HBO’s Taxicab Confessions, and the call’s out for “Brooklyn couples, ages 18-35, to follow their real lives for a new documentary series.” That was about all from the cartoonishly-cryptic postcard in our mailbox. So we called to “apply” and learn a bit more.
New Apprentice casting the down and out
Broke? Jobless? Hair's Donny! image via dealbreaker.com
Quit your arduous job search, stop the interviews and pull down that LinkedIn profile, brokesters, because your get-rich scheme has finally arrived. A tipster passed along this casting call:
NBC is casting for its new edition of The Apprentice and is looking for business professionals who have been affected by the economic downturn and are ready to go to work again. People of all ages are welcome to apply from recent college grads to executives who are 40+.
Broke Brooklyn hottie is star of new Hulu reality show
Meet Ben Elliott, a genetically gifted yet financially bereft model/actor from Brooklyn—Williamsburg? Greenpoint?—who’s one of the five stars of the new web-only reality show from American Idol creator Simon Fuller. If I Can Dream, which debuted on Hulu today, transplants five up-and-coming talents—a model, three actors and a rocker—to Hollywood, where they live in a house and pursue big-time fame. Ben, who’s 22, is filmed skateboarding around BK with his suspiciously camera-ready posse until he’s saved from his empty fridge and groady couch by Fuller & Co. “Surviving New York with no money is not easy, but I did it,” he says in the following video clip, “so I can go anywhere.”
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