Hilton has gotta be giddy about Mad Men
Reflections at the Hilton Americas-Houston. Sue Frause photo.
No doubt that Hilton Worldwide is a little bit giddy about being a major part of Mad Men this season. I bet Paris Hilton (great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton) tunes in every Sunday night!
Not only is the hotel offering a Live Like A Mad Men Sweepstakes, the TV show is receiving accolades from the academic world, too.
Here’s an excerpt from a Houston Chronicle article (Mad Men nails its history with help from UH):
When Mad Men rang, Mark Young answered.
Writers from the ultrastylish AMC series called the University of Houston historian in February, looking for specifics on Conrad Hilton and his hotel chain, circa 1963.
“They wanted to know, was Connie Hilton a milquetoast, or was he charismatic and gregarious,” said Young, who runs the Hospitality Industry Archives at UH’s Hilton College of Hotel & Restaurant Management.
They also asked for Hilton ads from the early ’60s and help pinpointing the company’s advertising budget at the time.
It will be interesting to see if the Tysons Corner, Virginia based hotel chain sees an upturn in its occupancy rate due to all the exposure. I know I’d consider booking a room at Hilton’s Rome Cavalieri, featured in a recent episode, the next time I’m in Italy.
I wonder if they’ll have a Mad Men suite?
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Huston is way too hot in summer and many of them are very racists eachother black or white asian or hispanic… What’s wrong with thier brains?
that’s why Paris Hilton’s familly lives in L.A. !!!!
In addition to checking with the staff at the Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, I have the feeling the writers also read the relevant sections on Conrad Hilton in Jeff Sharlet’s The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. As depicted on “Mad Men,” Connie Hilton certainly wanders dangerous close to a certain evangelical lunacy.