Critics' Picks
Salon —
July 26, 2008 | Critics' Picks Vincent Kartheiser as Pete Campbell in "Mad Men" There are plenty of reasons to look forward to the second season of AMC's acclaimed drama series "Mad Men" (premieres 10 p.m. EDT Sunday). But while relishing scenes between Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and his wife, Betty (January Jones), or Draper and his cad of a boss, Roger Sterling (John Slattery), this season I find myself most drawn to scenes that feature Draper's ambitious underling Peter Campbell. Vincent Kartheiser does a great job with Campbell's sometimes awkward, sometimes smooth, sometimes downright pathetic antics, revealing his dark urges, vulnerable ...
A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago — THE ENDOWED ALOTT5MA CHAIR IN CULTURAL STUDIES OF THE AMERICAN HEARTLAND STILL NEEDS A PRIMARY BENEFACTOR: Despite the diversity of our crew there there persists certain gaps in knowledge among the bloggers here -- metamorphic petrology and the Younger abstention doctrine still leading the list -- but I also recognized recently ...
Dierks Bentley: The EW Pop Culture Personality Test
PopWatch —
Dierks Bentley: The EW Pop Culture Personality Test Dierksbently_l Country singer Dierks Bentley is a man known for hitting the road hard, so it's appropriate that when PopWatch met him Wednesday night in New York City, where he's been promoting his new album, Feel That Fire , he had just returned from a day trip to Philadelphia. After signing 700 autographs in three hours at a Pennsylvania Dave & Buster's, he needed alcohol. So first, he captured our toast for the Flip videos he shoots and edits for his website ...

