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William Bradley: Mad Men: Three Seasons On and Looking Forward

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:54:04 +0000

Mad Men 's brilliant third season finale earlier this month is still echoing in the mind. And in the culture. January Jones was a game host of Saturday Night Live the following weekend. (Though she didn't make anyone forget Jon Hamm's great hosting gig last year. He is seriously funny.) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealed that she's a fan of the show. And of course her husband, former President Bill Clinton, is a Mad Men fan as well. Which is simply too perfect for words. I could easily write a column comparing Bill Clinton and Don Draper. Avoiding the obvious cheap shots. Another time, perhaps. I've been thinking about the arc of the series from its brilliant pilot, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes," set in March 1960, to the fabulous third season finale, which takes place in December 1963. Where has the series been, where is it now, and where might it be going with creator Matthew Weiner? The reality is that our beloved old Sterling Cooper was a rather stodgy advertising agency. That's ...

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Composers and lyricists make pitch to join Teamsters

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:00:00 +0000

Seeing demand for movie and TV music growing and take-home pay shrinking, about half of a group of 400 sign up to band together with an unlikely ally. > David Carbonara has a gig many of his peers would covet: He writes music for the critically acclaimed AMC show "Mad Men."

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Showbiz people briefs (Reuters)

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:01:14 +0000

Reuters - Abigail Spencer, who played Don Draper's mistress on "Mad Men" this season, will co-star in NBC's drama pilot "Rex Is Not Your Lawyer."

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Showbiz people briefs

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:01:14 +0000

Reuters - Abigail Spencer, who played Don Draper's mistress on "Mad Men" this season, will co-star in NBC's drama pilot "Rex Is Not Your Lawyer."

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Designers push recognizable retail

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:04:35 +0000

Film, Fashion and Fame: 'Mad' suit shows up at Brooks Brothers -- Brooks Brothers carries the Mad Men Edition suit, with costume designer Janie Bryant clearly credited.

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'Prisoner' Debuts to 'Mad Men'-Level Ratings

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:19:31 +0000

By Daniel Frankel AMC's three-part miniseries remake of classic U.K. series "The Prisoner" got off to a solid if unspectacular start Sunday, drawing 2.2 million viewers. The total is only slightly off the season-average pace of AMC's signature series, "Mad Men," which averaged 2.3 million viewers for its just-completed third season. Starring James Caviezel and Ian McKellen, "The Prisoner" represents the first series gestated under AMC's new creative team, which is headed by Joel Stillerman.

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Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Mad Men and the Decline of America

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:34:03 +0000

The opening credits of Mad Men are the most disturbing and haunting for me. It is 9/11 and the images of the businessmen falling from the twin towers. Yet they are falling past images of consumerism and ads which sell the "best" of America ... in silhouette. My father was an ad man -- a PR guy -- and I recall my first trip to New York with him while he was visiting clients, making commercials, and the dinners at Sardis before dinner, the Algonquin, the end of an era portrayed in Mad Men . The nostalgia of the wood paneled den and the mother wondering which model/client was being entertained (my mother can't watch the show....my father, on the other hand confirms to me that Mad Men shows exactly how it used to be in that world). When politics and advertising became one, it meant spending early November Tuesdays at campaign headquarters with Styrofoam hats, parades and t-shirts, and those signs in our yard. Vote for him or him or him. I remember the Xerox machine at the office when I was ...

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January Jones Tries to Bring on the Funny for Saturday Night Live

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:19:00 +0000

Mad Men's January Jones tried her hand at comedy this week when she hosted Saturday Night Live. But was she able to cut loose from the stiff Betty Draper persona we've all come to know? Let's check out some clips: Watch full episodes of SNL Monologue This was really the only Mad Men gag of the night. Jones monologue was almost immediately interrupted by a group of obsessed fans, which Jones referred to as "Mad Mennies." They even ended up on stage to sing the show's theme songs with their original lyrics. Watch the video after the jump.

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'The Prisoner'

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:00:00 +0000

The AMC remake of the cult classic '60s British spy-fi series won't hold viewers captive. > For its third original dramatic series, AMC has chosen to reimagine -- as a six-episode miniseries that will run in a clump from Sunday to Tuesday -- Patrick McGoohan's 1967 British spy-fi show "The Prisoner." (It first aired here in 1968.) If the network, here co-producing with the U.K.'s Granada and ITV, was out to prove itself unafraid to mount another show as slow as "Mad Men," it has succeeded, with the difference that "Mad Men" is never boring.

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Ed Martin: V Soars on ABC, Mad Men Scores on AMC, Dollhouse Dies on Fox, Cartoon Network Rocks and More

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:04:34 +0000

It's been a week and I am still recovering from the excitement of the season finale of AMC's Mad Men . In this column just a few weeks ago, before the finale or the extraordinary penultimate episode of the season that dealt directly with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, I said that it would be "absolutely fascinating to see how Kennedy's murder [would] impact the employees of Sterling Cooper," noting that the tragedy "shook the entire world as it changed the lives of every American citizen old enough to realize what had happened." Sure enough, Mad Men creator and executive producer Matthew Weiner didn't disappoint. Quite the opposite: He exceeded all expectations. Once that first Special Bulletin interrupted the daytime programming Harry had been monitoring (before he turned away to listen to Pete rant about career issues), everything about the everyday lives of virtually every character on the show was suddenly somewhat "off," as if the world suddenly went out of sync. Weeks ...

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AMC Has a Lot on the Line With 'The Prisoner'

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:28:32 +0000

By Daniel Frankel Once a sleepy basic-cable movie channel, AMC has led a truly blessed life since it plunged into the realm of original scripted programming back in 2006 with the western “Broken Trail.” A surprise Emmy winner for best miniseries that year, the Robert Duvall-starrer put the Rainbow Media-owned channel on an awards and critically acclaimed winning streak that continued with the regular-series launches of “Mad Men” in 2007 and “Breaking Bad” in 2008. On Sunday, AMC will take its next shot -- the premiere of a three-part miniseries event “T...

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'Mad Men' Writer to Pen 'Fright Night' Remake

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:46:15 +0000

By the Hollywood Reporter Can you dispatch a vampire with a martini and cigarette smoke? "Mad Men" writer-producer Marti Noxon has been hired to pen DreamWorks Studios' revamp of the 1985 horror comedy "Fright Night." Before her work on AMC's "Mad Men," Noxon was a writer-producer on the bloodsucker series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel," so fangs and stakes are in her blood. Read more from the Hollywood Reporter.

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Marti Noxon Writes Fright Night

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:19:05 +0000

Buffy and Mad Men screenwriter gets gig > >

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Mad Men 's Noxon Penning Fright Night

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:17:20 +0000

"Mad Men" writer/producer Marti Noxon has been hired to write the script for DreamWorks Studios' redo of the 1985 horror comedy Fright Night .

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Susan Weissman: Channeling Betty Draper: Will She Smile Before Next Season's Final Episode of Mad Men?

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:25:17 +0000

If you've seen the show Mad Men then you're already familiar with Betty Draper's off putting yet alluring character . In the majority of her scenes she's located in a plaid-coordinated suburban kitchen staring blankly at her children while discontentedly huffing a cigarette. As her children eat (or dare speak) she sips from her bottomless wine glass through perpetually lipsticked stained lips. Only when one of her blue-eyed children draws Betty's attention with an innocent query, "When is Daddy coming home?" (FYI Daddy is never home because daddy is always up to no good with some other coiffed babe) will Betty wake up. Then she responds with one of her classic era-driven parenting standards such as "Go watch T.V.!" Or if there is daylight she might innovate: "Go outside and play!" If you haven't seen Mad Men then just imagine an utterly spoiled, gorgeous, turned-out mother who has no idea what to do with her life, or how, in fact, her life became her life and who has become so very ...

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Marti Noxon to pen 'Fright Night' redo

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:00:00 +0000

"Mad Men" writer-producer Marti Noxon has been hired to pen DreamWorks Studios' revamp of the 1985 horror comedy "Fright Night."

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Up in the Air TV Trailer Online

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:59:33 +0000

Paramount Pictures aired a new TV trailer for Jason Reitman's Up in the Air during Sunday's "Mad Men" season finale, and you can now watch the clip, titled "Everyone Needs a Co-Pilot," online at Apple .

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'Mad Men' Creator Matthew Weiner Weighs in on Season 3 Finale

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:32:55 +0000

Mad Men concluded its third season with the birth of a new advertising agency while a lot of characters were left in the wind. It was a huge step for series creator Matthew Weiner to hit the reset button since Sterling Cooper will no longer be the fundamental setting of the series but that was all part of his original plan.

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Mad Men Creator Plans Rom-Com

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:21:31 +0000

Aniston, Cooper & Galifianakis sign on > >

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