Mad Men

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#bakbuna - Widfara

This does nothing to reduce my *want* for a teardrop trailer! - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

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Akiva: I ... But . . . You're right. - Brent from fftogo

very great album. - Neuromancer

totally agree!!!!!! - IMMERSE YOUR SELF.

"an extensive list of books featured in, based on, or that inspired Mad Men, broken down by season. Happy — or, more realistically, dramatic and depressing but still valuable and gripping — reading!" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet

alas, more books added to my 'to read' list, at least some are free online, ;) - chaz2b

"Under the "Mad Men" deal, viewers will be able to stream the first four seasons of "Mad Men" on Netflix around mid-July. Once the final episode of the fifth season finishes airing on AMC in 2012, episodes from that entire season will also be available on Netflix. The sixth and final seasons of "Mad Men" will follow a similar pattern. This is not the first time that Lions Gate has teamed up with Netflix. Last year, Netflix struck a deal with start-up pay TV channel Epix, which included online rights to films from its three equity partners, Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures, Lions Gate, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. The five-year deal cost Netflix about $1 billion." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., which produces the hit television series "Mad Men," struck a deal with Netflix Inc. to stream all seven seasons of the critically acclaimed show about a 1960s advertising agency. The deal is worth between $75 million and $100 million, people close to the situation said. That means Netflix is paying close to $1 million per episode of the series, which... more... - RAPatton

"Mr. Weiner is bristling at the channel’s proposal to shorten each episode by two minutes (to add commercial time) and to cut the cast budget (to save money)" - IMMERSE YOUR SELF. from Bookmarklet

"That a soap opera decked out in high-end clothes (and concepts) should have received so much acclaim and is taken so seriously reminds you that fads depend as much on the willingness of the public to believe as on the cleverness of the people who invent them; as with many fads that take the form of infatuations with certain moments in the past, the Mad Men craze tells us far more about today than it does about yesterday. But just what in the world of the show do we want to possess? The clothes and furniture? The wicked behavior? The unpunished crassness? To my mind, it’s something else entirely, something unexpected and, in a way, almost touching." - Derrick from Bookmarklet

"If you’ve been jonesin’ for Don, Betty and the rest of the Mad Men gang during the long months between seasons– especially after seeing January Jones in the X-Men: First Class trailer — Periscope Studios has your virtual hook up. Last week was Mad Men week on their Tumblr blog, and they shared all sorts of inspired art — including the above piece by Jonathan Case, a faux ad for the infamous Red Rider BB Gun." - RAPatton

"Paris is formalizing its fascination with "Mad Men" by giving a medal to the hit series' creator and executive producer, Matthew Weiner. Two of the series' stars, Christina Hendricks, who plays office manager Joan Harris, and John Slattery, who plays ad agency partner Roger Sterling, flanked Weiner at the ceremony Tuesday at Paris' City Hall. Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe's top official for cultural matters presented Weiner with the Vermeil medal for cultural and other contributions to society. "I fell in love with Paris through the movies," said Weiner, adding that it was "very meaningful" to be given the award. "Mad Men," which traces the lives of advertising executives in 1960s New York, has been a hit with French fans. Photographers and camera crews mobbed the three on their way in and out of the ceremony." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"When Jon Hamm auditioned for the part of Don Draper — the decadent, womanising martini-­swilling, chain-smoking and utterly ruthless advertising executive in Mad Men — he was one of more than eighty hopefuls.  He made it on to a short list of 11, but as the only unknown and least experienced candidate, he was convinced that, realistically, he stood no chance. ‘I was the complete outsider’, he recalls. ‘They’d said they wanted a sharp, stylish character to just play himself, and I thought I was too much of a nerd — and so did everyone else’. Somehow, he got the part and just look at him now. The coolest man on TV, adored by millions of female viewers and envied by other men — called Donabees — who copy Don Draper’s clothes, his mannerisms, the slicked-back ­Brylcreemed hair and even his Sixties cynicism. There’s a Golden Globe for best actor, People magazine has called him the sexiest man alive, and he’s GQ’s man of the year." - RAPatton

"He shrugs off the adulation. ‘I am coming up to my 40th birthday, and I don’t let myself ­forget that for 15 years after I left school I ­struggled to make a living. So what’s ­happening to me now is very nice. ‘I’ve been a barman, a waiter, a teacher, and I even helped out on a soft porn movie — as a set dresser, not a performer, I hasten to add — because I’d do everything I could to... more... - RAPatton

"Hamm’s inspiration for his role, he says, was his father, Dan, who ran the family trucking business. ‘My mother had died of cancer when I was ten. I was 20 and still in college when Dad died. He had ­diabetes and had been in poor health for some time. That could have unmoored me, taken over my life, but people rallied around me. ‘Dad was smart and fun, but also rather sad. After he... more... - RAPatton

"The voting habits of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association could generously be called idiosyncratic. By our lights, the H.F.P.A.’s tendency is to sort of boozily hone in on the ceremony’s most trendy—and so in forecasting the winners, we took a cue from Globes host Ricky Gervais, knocked back a pint (or seven), and asked ourselves, “Like, what just seems cool right now, man?” We then subjected our initial inebriated intuition to a rigorous cross-analysis, filtered our results through a 21-year-old scotch, and submitted them to a thorough peer-review process (“Hey, dude, did you see Temple Grandin? Is that the one where Al Pacino kills horses?”). After waking up the next morning on the edge of the Salton Sea, we reconstructed our long-forgotten list from the cryptic writings left on our hotel-room wall and added in a little wishful thinking." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"Best Actor in a Television Series, Drama Jon Hamm, Mad Men  .... Best Television Series, Drama Mad Men " - RAPatton

"Best Original Score Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, The Social Network  Best Original Song “You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me,” Burlesque  Best Foreign Language Film Biutiful  Best Animated Feature Film Toy Story 3  Best Screenplay The Social Network  Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom  Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Christian Bale,... more... - RAPatton

"Mad Men lands on a plethora of Top 10 lists this week. Read on to see which publications single out the show, and why" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet

"Last week (which was also last year), AMCtv.com served up a collection of quotes from the Season 4 interviews with Mad Men's male cast members. This week (aka this year), the ladies get a turn in the spotlight. Kick off 2011 by reading full interviews with many of the actresses who make Mad Men so special." - Brent from Bookmarklet

"January Jones role as Betty Draper has seen her spearhead a revival in demure Fifties fashion. But she may be set to reverse that as she unveiled some racy new ads for fashion label Versace. With her hair styled in classic Hitchcock blonde fashion and only a designer bag to preserve her modesty, January dispensed with her prim housewife image in one fell swoop. The 32-year-old Mad Men star poses completely nude, except for some sexy high heels and a well positioned hand bag for the Spring/Summer campaign for Versace accessories. Donatella Versace said: 'I am always on the lookout for the next Versace blonde and in January I feel I have found a perfect Versace woman for the twenty-first century. 'She is chic and elegant but deeply sensual too.' The Mad Men star met Donatella, who is creative director at Versace, on a shoot for US Elle magazine last year. " - RAPatton

Yes. He was da man. - RAPatton

gift for the iWorthy i guess, :/ - chaz2b

"Actress January Jones appears to be a fan of accessories, but not clothing. The 32-year-old Mad Men star poses completely nude, except for some sexy high heels and a well positioned hand bag for the Spring/Summer campaign for Versace accessories. The stunning black and white photo was taken by famed photographer Mario Testino who recently shot the official engagement pictures of Prince William and his bride to be Kate Middleton." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"She said in a discussion with Interview magazine earlier this year: 'I think men are still attracted to what they’ve always found attractive, which is a woman [both laugh] who is feminine, soft, real, and... womanly. 'In the time of Mad Men, women were very polite and soft-spoken, and they didn’t express a lot of opinions. 'Now, I think women have become a little more rigid or hard -... more... - RAPatton

"I t’s conventional wisdom that the antenna of a TV top ten—the selection that gets the fat print and the pretty illustration—should be a drama. It must be cinematic; it must be dark. It should almost certainly be on cable, probably with someone named David in the show-runner slot. So when I choose the network sitcom Community as No. 1, I’m not saying it doesn’t have serious competition: I couldn’t even fit Sons of Anarchy or Men of a Certain Age onto this list, each of which, were I in a different mood today, might rise right to the top. Cable still hosts the most ambitious television experiments, providing a place where oddball art can find a niche audience (and one that buys DVDs). And yet it’s worth pointing out that smack in the middle of network, there it is: this auteurist sitcom, slamming it out of the park each week of its second season. Half-hour comedies are as potent an art form as one-hour dramas, and at the moment, the schedule is studded with great ones (Parks and... more... - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"1. Community NBC 2. Mad Men AMC 3. Terriers FX 4. 30 Rock NBC 5. In Treatment HBO 6. Louie FX 7. The Good Wife CBS 8. United States of Tara Showtime 9. Boardwalk Empire HBO 10. Treme HBO" - RAPatton

"Continuing the current predilection for designers using celebrities to front their ad campaigns, it has been confirmed that Mad Men star January Jones will be the face of Versace's spring/summer 2011 campaign. The former model met Versace's creative director Donatella Versace on a shoot for US Elle magazine last year, and the pair struck up a friendship, which led to Jones wearing Atelier Versace to the 2010 Emmy awards, sitting front row at the Versace catwalk show at Milan Fashion Week and, most recently, hosting a charitable dinner with the designer at the Connaught Hotel in London to celebrate the launch of Central Saint Martins 20-20 Fashion Fund. Jones, whose off-screen style couldn't be further from the ladylike 1950s styles she wears in her role as TV's most beautiful 'bitch' Betty Draper in Mad Men, seems the perfect fit for Versace's bright and sexy sculpted collection." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"Call it the "Mad Men" effect or a feminine twist on the military-inspired looks of fall — bold red lips are everywhere. Women are wearing a red pout as an accessory, just as they might a new handbag from Barneys but without the hefty price tag. And the more adventurous aren't just going bold, they're going matte. Actresses Lea Michele, Keri Russell and Julie Benz sported shine-free red lips at the 2010 Emmys, as did Christina Hendricks during "Mad Men's" season premiere party, proving that a matte lip doesn't have to look dried-out or matronly. In fact, it seems to be the most modern and fashion-forward way to wear red this season. Denizens of Southern California are famously gloss-obsessed. But a bold, matte finish can look very fresh when dimension is added to the lips and other features of the face don't compete with the mouth. Uzo, lead international makeup artist for Nars Cosmetics, has pointers on how to wear the look." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

EXCELLENT WORK THAT DRIVES THE VIEWER TO RECONSIDER IT'S IMPRESSION ABOUT ADVERTISING, AND THE ADVERTISING BUSINESS TO RECONSIDER IT'S SELF. - IMMERSE YOUR SELF.

"Sterling’s Gold—the fictional memoir/symbol of empty hubris written by Mad Men’s V.P. of epigrams Roger Sterling—is about to become a very real book courtesy of Grove Publishing, who announced today that it's “forthcoming in cloth,” with a publishing date set for sometime next month. As seen below, Sterling’s Gold will retain the same tacky-classy cover design it had on the show, albeit with an added photo of John Slattery and the new subtitle, Wit And Wisdom Of An Ad Man." - Brent from Bookmarklet