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Mad Men‘s Christina Hendricks. I believe this deserves three vas and a voom.
Mad Men‘s Christina Hendricks. I believe this deserves three vas and a voom.
Time was you watched a TV drama, the whole thing got wrapped up in a hour. Perry Mason would meet a client, Dr. Kildare would get a case, Charlie would call the Angels, and sixty minutes later, everyone could go to bed. But in the eighties, things changed. In Wiseguy and Hill Street Blues and …
It is perhaps is an indication of how pathetic my life has become, but still. . . in Sunday’s episode of Mad Men, Don Draper is riding to work on the train when he is joined by his paramour, Suzanne Farrell. Don, obviously, is heading south to Manhattan from Ossining, and as he moves right …
I’m pretty sure I would have been a fan of Mad Men in any event, but the fact that Don and Betty Draper make their home in Ossining–one mere town over from Briarcliff Manor, where I have lived for twenty years–always made the show especially appealing to me. Last Sunday, however, when Betty and her …
I am so looking forward to the start of the new season of Mad Men in two weeks that I have gone to work at the agency. That’s my self-assembled avatar being welcomed by Don Draper and Roger Sterling (right), as Peggy, Pete and Joan look on (left) . If you want to make one …
A highly eclectic, hardly systematic accounting of what I liked best in 2008: 1.) THE ELECTION. What a tremendous drama. The characters were strong and well-drawn–too-good-to-be-true Barack Obama, the redoubtable Hillary Clinton, the indomitable and gracious John McCain, and the brilliantly imagined Sarah Palin, among others–plus the well-plotted series of upsets and comebacks, culminating in …
I got my set of Mad Men Season One DVDs (in the clever Zippo lighter-like box) the other day, and, in anticipation of the start of Season Two on July 27th, immediately plunged into a review of the opening dozen episodes of what is now clearly the best show on television. What’s most interesting about …
Had a lovely time today talking to Matthew Weiner, the Executive Producer of Mad Men, the most excellent AMC series. I was talking to Weiner for USA Weekend about The Apartment, the Billy Wilder classic now in a Collectors’ Edition DVD. Weiner was so smart and articulate about the film, and very generous with his …