"Mad Men" on AMC (US) - (Spoilers Within)

[MrBern]

shirtbox DVD

Style blog on the new DVD set:

http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/bourbon-time-mad-men-season-2-on-dvd/

and an older post on fashioning your own DonDraper hairstyle properly, LOOK THE PART:
http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/look-the-part-getting-mad-men-hair/

 

[kamikat]

AMC is doing a Mad Men contest. The winner gets a walk-on role in the show.
http://blogs.amctv.com/mad-men/2009/07/banana-republic-casting-call.php

 

[djhatman]

My copy of season 2 should be here on the 20th. I have not seen any of season 2 yet, so I guess I will just have to watch it straight threw when it comes.

 

[Doctor Strange]

SIXTEEN EMMY NOMINATIONS!

The most of any drama series... The list is coming online slowly, but so far, I've already seen:

Best Drama
Best Actor - John Hamm
Best Actress - Elizabeth Moss
Best Supporting Actor - John Slattery

 

[goldwyn girl]

Starts August 16th!!!

http://blogs.amctv.com/mad-men/2009/06/amc-announces-season3.php

Whoo hoo !!!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

And watch for more interior scenes shot in the Oviatt Building! (NYC's fabled "Stork Club" on the show; "Cicada Restaurant" and "The Cicada Club" in real life.)


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[PADDY]

Hasn't AMC heard...?

We've already had the contest at TFL a while ago.

AMC is doing a Mad Men contest. The winner gets a walk-on role in the show.
http://blogs.amctv.com/mad-men/2009/07/banana-republic-casting-call.php

 

[Tomasso]

For me, the wait for the new MM season is almost as excruciating as that of the NFL season.

 

[GoldenEraFan]

I'm really looking forward to season 3. In my opinion, Mad Men is the best show on television. I like the fact that the creators try their hardest to make everything as historically accurate as possible while maintaining a good story. Every episode makes you want to find out more about each character. My favorite episode is when Don buys a brand new 1962 Cadillac Coupe Deville.

 

[Story]

Tangentially related -

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/arts/design/17bassman.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

In the early 1970s Lillian Bassman, among the most important fashion photographers of the 20th century, made the decision to dispose of her career, quite literally. Artists do this all the time without the intent — giving themselves over to excess, retreating to ashrams — but Ms. Bassman’s approach was aggressive and determined. Disillusioned by the costuming of the late 1960s, she had had enough of fashion and expressed her disdain by destroying decades’ worth of negatives and placing others in a trash bag in the coal room of her Upper East Side carriage house. Her era of furtive eroticism was over, and there was no point in scrapbooking it.

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Ms. Bassman took her most significant pictures from the late ’40s to the early ’60s; most were published in Harper’s Bazaar under the stewardship of the magazine’s influential art director Alexey Brodovitch and belong distinctly to the era of “Mad Men” New York. The clothes have a structured beauty; the gloves are mandatory; the necks are long. Elegant men with cigarettes between their fingers occasionally enter the frame, encountering women who appear utterly indifferent to their attention. The perversions of inequality are absent; what appears instead is the glamour of a protracted cultural moment in which women were free from any expectation of sexual pursuit. The power of Ms. Bassman’s photographs is the power of a woman who is never moved to make a call.

 

[Colby Jack]

I posted a link for the Casting Call under "Events" as well.

 

[flat-top]

Christina Hendricks from Esquire:

 

[MrBern]

why everything sucks

Craig Ferguson mustve been watching Mad Men, as he seems to have had an epiphany as to why everything has devolved into stupidity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tvJKf4JYcM

 

[scotrace]

Christina Hendricks from Esquire:

Holy Smoke! Current Issue?

 

[flat-top]

Holy Smoke! Current Issue?

I think so.... see more here:
http://www.esquire.com/women/women-we-love/christina-hendricks-photos-0909

 

[Tomasso]

Warm up your DVR.

AMC will air a "Mad Men" marathon on Monday, August 10 from 7am - 8pm ET, featuring all 13 episodes from season 2.

 

[texasgirl]

Season 3 Photos

 

[MrBern]

NYC

Anyone going to the parties?

http://www.amctv.com/newyorksgonemad/

TimesSquare:

Watch the Season 3 premiere on the
big screen and come dressed in your swankiest sixties attire to enter our pre-screening costume contest starting at 8PM. Free and open to the public.

 

[Story]

EARLY in Season 1 of the AMC series “Mad Men,” Don Draper, the mysterious advertising executive at the core of the show, was seen at home emptying can after can of Fielding beer. Bloggers afflicted with the fact-checking gene quickly noted that there was no Fielding beer in the United States at the time.

“That was a huge mistake,” said Gay Perello, the show’s prop master since the second season. “I hated that label. Hated it.”

Ten years ago, few would have cared whether the executives at Sterling Cooper — the fictional 1960s advertising firm featured in the show, which begins its third season on Sunday — entertained a client with mai tais or bloody marys. But it was the show’s good fortune (or misfortune, depending on how you look at it) to unveil its drink-centric world at a time when a growing fraternity of alcohol enthusiasts is rediscovering America’s rich drinking history. Now, the goof police are out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/dining/12don.html

 

[MrBern]

Costume designer interview

Very nice interview with Janie Bryant, the costume designer.

Why the Mad Men look so good
http://www.canada.com/life/fashion-beauty/look+good/1890098/story.html

Chevalier, FYI:

And this year actually, I've designed almost all of the suits for the principal male cast and Brooks Brothers produced them for us. But all of their suits were designed by me.