Mad Men

TVGuide.com: Is she at fault for the divorce? Brown: I don't believe Shirley is at fault ever at any time. I believe Shirley is salt of the Earth. She's a saint. She was a poor bystander in another relationship her husband had. It's tragic. Poor, sweet Shirley.

By asepinwall@starledger.com (Alan Sepinwall) • "Mad Men" - Pete, Betty, Don, Joan • TCA Award winners John Carter (ER), Saul Mother-Frakking Tigh (Battlestar Galactica), Sheldon Cooper (Big Bang Theory), Betty Draper (Mad Men) • "Mad Men," take two (complete with "Mad Men" font) - Roger, Peggy, Don, Joan

By Brian Moylan The short answer is probably not, but she sure will try. We speculated that her busty cover of GQ and her SNL gig were a play for career-after-Mad Men because creator Matthew Weiner wasn't bringing her back. (And given the show's relatively low salary, she'd wouldn't mind moving on.) She had a...

By hortense It was obvious early on that Jones was going to be a shaky host; in her monologue, she came across as terrified and stiff, stumbling over her lines, and the Mad Men jokes provided by the cast (including Fred Armisen, who gives a rather sweet little shout out to his wife, Elisabeth Moss, who pl...

By hortense Don't forget to join us for tonight's Saturday Night Live; our host will be Mad Men's January Jones and our musical guest will be the Black Eyed Peas. Do you think we'll get another Mad Men sketch?

By Michael Calore It wasn’t until William Bernbach, the first rock star of Madison Avenue, put his copywriter in the same room as the art director that creative professionals found their stride and modern advertising truly came to life. Ads began to deliver a more emotional impact; they began to show a sens...

By Tempo I had an interesting conversation with (“Mad Men” creator) Matt Weiner one day. He told me that way back in Season 1, he and Jon Hamm had a discussion in which they decided that there was no way, if the series continued, that Don Draper could stay at Sterling Cooper (indefinitely). It would not...

By Brian Moylan Pete Campbell Played By: Vincent Kartheiser Last We Saw Him: Don's new protege at the new firm. Why Stay: He has a nice juicy, high-profile role that's far better than anything else he'll land. Why Leave: He doesn't have a good reason. Odds of Returning: 1: 100

By Brian Moylan Sterling Cooper Draper Price, How May I Help You?: Don Draper's marriage may have dissolved, but his firm has just started. He, Roger, Bert, and Lane have drafted Peggy, Harry Crane, Pete, and St. Joan as their coalition of the willing to steal clients and bust into the art department (yes, w...

By Tempo Just as Don assembles and solidifies his Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce family, he loses Betty and the kids. And though the major explosions in Don and Betty's marriage came in the last few episodes, there were still a few gripping aftershocks in "Close the Door."

By Tracie After an entire season of having his sleep interrupted by Betty, the baby, and Conrad Hilton, Don finally had to wake himself up. This seemed to be one of the themes of this episode, as Don put all his effort into to saving Sterling Cooper, and came to terms with the fact that he couldn't do the s...

By Sadie Bryan Batt Talks To GLAAD About Being Openly Gay In Hollywood [YouTube] Bryan Batt - Sway [YouTube] Mad Men's Bryan Batt, A.K.A. Salvatore Romano: Greatest Vulture Interview Ever [New York] Bryan Batt: The Gay Blade Of Mad Men [BlackBook]

By asepinwall@starledger.com (Alan Sepinwall) And that in turn raises a troubling question about what happens to Betty going forward. Betty has only ever figured into the story as she relates to Don, and we've seen this season with Joan and, especially, Sal, how easily characters who don't work at Sterling Cooper and/or don't have rela...

Am I saying the same thing is going to happen to you guys? No! Not at all. I mean, you two look very happy together. Seriously. And, hey, who knows? Maybe Mad Men will be the first show in television never to jump the shark. I mean, yeah, it won’t be quite the same when Don Draper puts on a tie-dye shirt....

By Myles “Wee Small Hours” October 11th, 2009 It’s yet another installment in a compelling but slow-paced series of episodes, ones which feel designed to show these characters searching the depths of their emotions and not quite sticking the landing, so to speak.

By Tempo The Sal situation wasn't even Don's biggest problem. The pressure on all the characters was vividly portrayed in this episode, which had an atmosphere of brewing menace punctuated by rare explosions (Betty tossing the box, Sal throwing the film canisters). A number of characters, weigh...

By hortense Nikki Finke is reporting that Kater Gordon, who recently won an Emmy for her writing work on Mad Men, has been let go from the series, as creator Matthew Weiner feels she's "reached her full potential." Mad Men Fires Writer Kater Gordon [EW]

By LatoyaPeterson Interestingly, every time a rape or sexual assault is portrayed on the show, questions swirl around whether or not it was really, truly an assault. When Joan was raped by her fiancé in the second season the buzz on message boards was that it wasn't really rape. In an interview with New York Mag...

By Myles For me going into this episode, I had heard about the walks of shame, and had pieced together what I would consider to be one of the most traumatizing (if not in the same way as Joan’s Season 2 predicament) images Mad Men has offered to date. However, much like an eclipse, there is something po...

By Tracie 11:01 Mad Men wins for Outstanding Drama Series. Elizabeth Moss and Jon Hamm both gave their significant others soul kisses. 10:38 Mad Men wins for Writing for a Drama. 10:20 Ben Linus FTW! 10:08 Check it out. They're advertising it. It's gonna take a long-ass-ass time. 9:41 I'm pregnant.

By Brian Moylan He's called in by Roger and company for the inevitable coal raking, and says he doesn't understand why they don't take the opportunity to make more money. In America, the fastest way to equality is through capitalism, and the ever money conscious Lane realizes that "something is happenin...

By TV Guide The fifth episode of Mad Men's third season wastes no time picking up the "circle of life" threads left dangling after Grandpa Gene's death. As Don and Betty deal with Sally's bad-behavior coping mechanism, the Drapers also welcome into their home a new bundle of joy (or more likely, annoy...

By Tempo These two shows are so different in tone, execution and setting. Yet I just had to point out how lucky we are to be able to escape the real world in such different ways -- via the hedonistic world of "True Blood" and via the intellectually challenging "Mad Men." (Was my enjoyment enhanced by the...

By Rick Monaco Mad Men kicked off its third season on A&E last Sunday, and it's either jumped the proverbial shark or is heading into exciting and uncharted waters, depending on your slant. It's no Sopranos-grade production and its creator Matthew Weiner is no David Chase, despite the former havin...

By Tempo Welcome back, "Mad Men"! Some "Mad Men" links: Here's my recent interview with "Mad Men's" Jon Hamm, who plays Don Draper. Alan Sepinwall talked to creator Matthew Weiner about the new season and has a review of "Out of Town."Keith Phipps of The Onion's AV Club has a review as well.

Jon Hamm has a lot to be happy about. The third season of Mad Men is kicking off in a couple of weeks; he was nominated for two Emmy Awards for his work on Mad Men and 30 Rock; and he’s very likely the Second Coming of Christ. So if anyone deserves a vacation, it’s him. And thanks to one of our beloved re...

By brenda The episode closes with Pete and Trudy meeting the co-op board (or whatever the 1960 equivalent is) for their new building. “Wait until I tell my husband there’s a Dykeman in the building,” the woman says excitedly. Pete looks out on the city his family used to own as “Manhattan” plays: “We’l...

By Tempo Returning cast members include Golden Globe winner Jon Hamm (“We Were Soldiers”), Elisabeth Moss (“West Wing”), Vincent Kartheiser (“Angel”), January Jones (“We Are Marshall”), and Christina Hendricks (“Kevin Hill”), as well as guest star John Slattery (“Charlie Wilson’s War,” “...

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By Roberta Lipp Courtesy of a very good friend of ours, Paula Sangeleer, who co-hosts a morning show on Eagle 97 out of Delaware. Just a fun visit with Crista. She talks about Mad Men (Paula is a fan), she talks about Mad TV (sense the theme?), she does some impressions, she talks about the Mad Men Revue, and [...]

By Deborah Lipp January Jones helped raise over $350,000 for the 7th Annual Stuart House Benefit at the John Varvatos boutique in Los Angeles. While Season 3 of Mad Men unfolds, Jones will also be in theaters on The Boat That Rocked, a sixties comedy directed by Richard Curtis.

By TatianaTheAnonymousModel The Black Artists Association Amna Eele, who criticized Michelle Obama for not wearing clothing by any African-American designers during the inauguration, has received death threats over her comments. And one of the designers Eele mentioned as possible alternatives, b. michael, has...

By Richard I mean, he's still living pretty modestly. The first season of Mad Men, given that it's an AMC show, probably didn't pay much and his second season contract most likely didn't give him a huge raise. Last we checked, he was living in Los Feliz and driving a leased Audi. So he's not quite tooling ar...

By David Kronke Cute couples of our time.) Oh, and those suffering from "Mad Men" withdrawal symptoms may want to know that "The Simpsons" parodies the show's opening title sequence in Sunday's episode, with Homer standing in for Don Draper. It's not much, but it's better than nothing.

By casanovaruffin Valet gives a few tips on how to dress like Don Draper. It’s almost as good as a Guide to Picking Up Women. | [Valet]. I found a clip of Jon Hamm’s John Ham. I noticed that you don’t need sound at all to figure out what the skit is all ...

By Deborah Lipp Our first post-season Mad News! I anticipate a flurry of season-end reviews followed by a welcome slow-down of this feature, but we’ll still run it at least weekly. Basketcase jw pointed out the Vulture’s Don Draper Likability Index. Ha!From Basketcase Surly Temple comes the first cogen...

By Myles Watching throughout the episode how Pete is pouring his heart out at every juncture, in particular to Peggy, it is all the more gutwrenching when we realize what she’s about to do. The episode, and in many ways the season, have been choreographing this moment. Of all the secrets we’ve seen, P...

By Gail Pennington Jon is joined by “Mad Men” co-stars John Slattery (as Roger) and Elisabeth Moss (as Peggy) In what’s first billed as “Mad Men” and then as — what? a different TV show? — “Two A-Holes at an Ad Agency in the 1960s.” But beyond the two people being A-holes, there’s really no place for this sketch to...

By hullaballoo Then there’s a rush of excitement as Robert Morse, Bryan Batt, Joel Murray, Michael Gladis, Maggie Siff, Mark Moses, Patrick Fischler, Melinda McGraw, Colin Hanks, Alison Brie, Crista Flanagan, and Donielle Artese (Paul’s girlfriend, Sheila) arrive at the same time, looking glamor...

By Deborah Lipp None of the Mad Men stars have contracts. Fox News tells us that Jon Hamm, John Slattery, and the rest of the cast have yet to sign for a third season. ARGH! However, a couple of days later, AMC came out saying Jon Hamm does have a contract, and viewers shouldn’t worry.And Alan Sepinwall gets the m...

By Media Maven 1. Hoss, The Elevator Operator -- Anytime an African-American actor is featured on this show, its for a reason.  It's August 5th, 1962, and Marilyn Monroe has just died.  Secretaries across the Sterling Cooper office are sobbing, Joan Holloway is isolated in Sterling's office to cope with the pain, and even Hoss, the elevator guy, is affected by the death of this superstar.  Why show us Hoss's reaction?  Because it shows us that EVERYONE feels the effects of Marilyn's death to some degree-- everyone except Roger Sterling and Don Draper, the two guys who pretty much rule the world.  It's a fascinating juxtaposition, and I think it only serves to make Don appear more heartless than he already does.  But more on that later...   [read the full post]

By Myles Describing Betty Draper to the representatives from Heineken, Duck Phillips identifies her as “well off and educated.” Now, in the context of the scene, we breeze right by it: they’re selling this pitch, so it’s not like anyone’s going to put on the brakes. However, let’s be frank: to this p...

By Tempo The second half of Season 2 of “Mad Men” is where it’s all happening. Betty didn’t wilt. That’s one of the reasons I love “Mad Men” – we saw who Betty was when the show first began. She’s not that woman any more -- the frightened child who backs down.

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By Deborah Lipp I just found this great interview with Christina Hendricks from June 28. My favorite part is that she doesn’t realize that Joan speaks in a higher voice than she does in real life. How funny! No backlash from Newsweek, which calls Mad Men “must-see TV.”

By Tempo Later in the season, when Roger Sterling (John Slattery) finally returned to his ad agency, Sterling Cooper, after a heart attack, no one was more glad to see him than head secretary Joan Holloway (Christina Hendricks), with whom he’d been having an affair. Episode 12: “Nixon vs. Kennedy”

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By Tempo One final note about "Mad Men" -- the great AMC series will arrive on DVD July 1. If my recommendations haven't convinced you to check this show out, perhaps the Peabody Award will? Brian Williams to host Awards Ceremony on June 16 at New York City’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel

By Brill NBC’s Entertainment Co-Chair Ben Silverman refused to let the “nerdiest, ugliest, meanest kids” (aka the WGA) cancel his “prom” (aka the Golden Globes), but it definitely wasn’t the event of the season. We dissect the cobbled together “Dateline NBC” special, the cranky and ill-inform...

By Tempo “The Sopranos” (HBO): We’ll be debating that ending until the end of time, but even before Tony Soprano’s abrupt exit from our lives, jaw-dropping episodes such as “Kennedy & Heidi” and “The Blue Comet” proved that this mob drama is one of the all-time greats.

By Brill We review what may turn out to be our favorite series of the summer, AMC’s “Mad Men” (premiering Thursday, July 19), about early 1960s American society against the backdrop of a New York ad agency (photo, left). Finally, we consider the implications of a BET lunch accompanied by a gospel ch...