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Losing Lane: Mad Men Season 5 Episode 12 (Commissions and Fees)
Sterling Cooper Draper… Harris? Was suicide the only way out for Mad Men’s consistent recipient of the Least Valuable Player Award? In “Commissions and Fees,” Lane’s tragic end is inevitable as soon as his sleight of hand with the books is found out by Bert Cooper; the canceled check for the money he stole from […]
Return to the Dark Side: Mad Men Season 5 Episode 9 (Dark Shadows)
Barnabas Collins? He doesn’t make an appearance, but “Dark Shadows” is an apt title for Episode 9 of Mad Men as our favorite characters do battle with their own demons – and lose. I’ll give the Ray of Light Award to Megan, for her maturing mastery of managing between a rock and a hard place, […]
Roger’s in the Sky With Diamonds! Mad Men Season 5 Episode 6: Far Away Places
Tune in, turn on, but don’t drop out? If there was ever any question that Mad Men would bite off a piece of the Psychedelic Sixties, there’s no doubt about it now. Pass the acid tabs at an upscale dinner – hosted by none other than Timothy Leary. And who’s in attendance? At the instigation […]
Mad Men Season 5 Premiere: (Episode 1) A Little Kiss
The real surprise in the Mad Men Season 5 premiere? Not only are Don and Megan married – they’re happy. We rejoin our favorite characters after 17 months of the show’s hiatus, and knowing Don Draper, we expect trouble in paradise. But we’re wrong. Not only has our hero married his former secretary Megan, played […]
Starting With a Kiss? Bliss. . .
Is Mad Men Season 5 really starting with a kiss? Apparently so. And if the episode title isn’t enough to seduce us, I can only imagine that the premiere itself will. Season 5’s “A Little Kiss” Parts 1 and 2 will air tonight at 9:00 p.m. on AMC TV, and all the Mad Men addicts […]
A Rumpled Suit, Jon Hamm, Brigitte Bardot, A Book By Its Cover
He was a rather rumpled gentleman, 40-something, about 50 pounds overweight. The type to be overlooked by women glancing across the room. He wore an easy grin, let loose a contagious belly laugh, and the fact is – he reminded be a bit of Oliver Hardy. Yes, as in Laurel and Hardy. He was also […]
Kissing Booth Marketing
What could have gotten me to a mall on Black Friday? Are you kidding? There’s only one thing that could have gotten me out shopping today, perhaps the most frenetic shopping day of the year, and it’s a very old school concept. The kissing booth. Yes. You heard that right. Surely I’m not the only […]
Phoenix rising from the ashes. Myth or possibility?
Is it human nature to believe that we can rebuild, even from devastation? I thought of this last evening, of the myth of the Phoenix rising from the ashes. I was watching the season finale of Mad Men, as the main character’s life seems to slip through his fingers – his marriage, his illusions about […]
Mad Men: Gorgeous, Gore, and Gals About Guys
It may be late in the week, but how could I resist a few observations on last Sunday’s viewing of Mad Men? What struck me? A gorgeous guy named Guy appears from the UK office, Joan celebrates her last day at the agency with a difficult secret, Don believes he might have a London assignment […]