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slaughterhouse90210 with another Mad Men gem:
“I believed that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.”
—Donald Barthelme, Me and Miss Mandible
AMC, Matt Weiner agree to new deal
- $30 million for Mad Men creator Matt Weiner in new deal source
» Patching things up: Weiner and AMC had been butting heads over some rather unglamorous specifics of the award-winning show, the sorts of arguments that chill the blood of television fans. AMC had wanted to reduce the production budget by shaving two minutes off the running time of each episode, as well as killing off characters to save on the actor’s pay, which is a pretty brazen demand to make in an artistic sense. As the compromise stands, all but the first and last episode will be two minutes shorter, but character deaths won’t be mandated by management.
Hooray for compromise — I’m sure they could shave a few seconds off each panning shot, and we wouldn’t even notice the missing two minutes. (Just kidding, those panning shots are the essence of Mad Men).
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TweetUgh, this would be depressing. (Although Mad Men, at its best, can be pretty depressing, so…)
It’s always about making more money for less, ain’t it?
Though Weiner is poised to become the highest-paid showrunner on basic cable, we hear that he is objecting to three things AMC/Lionsgate are asking for: integrating product placement into the series, cutting 2 minutes from each episode’s running time in favor of more commercials and eliminating/reducing two regular cast members to save money. Weiner is resisting all of the above.
Long wait in store for Mad Men?
Fans accustomed to spending their summer Sundays with Don Draper may have to wait a while longer. It looks increasingly likely that the fifth season of “Mad Men,” the three-time Emmy Award-winning AMC series, will not have its debut until later in 2011 or possibly 2012.
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slaughterhouse90210, on Mad Men:
“It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others - an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands…hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.”
— Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
Mad Men takes a leap into the future?
President Obama is having a little trouble selling America — especially Republicans — on his idea of connecting America by high-speed rail. Enter fictional ad men Pete Campbell and Harry Crane, of AMC’s “Mad Men.” If Draper approves, America might, too.
slaughterhouse90210 on Sally Draper:
“Who has more power than a child? She can be as cruel as she wants to be. He can’t.”
— Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall
"I’ve always thought the secret to Mad Men”s success is that it’s ultimately a very fannish show—it’s like science fiction in disguise. There’s the fetishistic attention to environmental detail—what sci-fi and fantasy readers refer to as “world-building”—and all the bits of hidden trivia that dedicated viewers take delight in spotting, collecting, and sharing. (Tell me again—what’s that dirty Japanese painting hanging in Bert Cooper’s office?)"
— Brow Beat : The Mystery of “Mad Men”
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Ad Campaign of the Day: The New Zealand branch of DraftFCB promotes the upcoming season premiere of Mad Men on the local TV station Prime with outdoor decals affixed to skyscrapers in a nod to the show’s now-iconic title sequence.
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On Don Draper:
“And yet women—good women—frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.”
— Charles Bukowski, WomenI’m pretty sure Don just wants to soak his in alcohol, then set it on fire.
Do we really have to wait 7 more months for the next season of Mad Men?
Peggy Olson (by Pablo Lobato)
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"January Jones is amazing. But I hate Betty as a person, and sometimes I just want to punch her in the face."
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Kiernan Shipka (Sally Draper)
I saw this in the “kids of Hollywood” feature in Entertainment Weekly and so meant to Tumble it! That story made me actually like Kiernan—a huge departure from how I’ve felt about her through the four seasons of Mad Men.
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I actually think Kiernan/Sally has been one of the best surprises of Mad Men, and as her character grows into its own, I think we’ll continue to see new, if maddening, developments from young Sally’s struggles with the 60s.
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