With the Season 3 start date of Sun., Aug. 16 officially announced, and Emmy nominations just around the corner, Mad Men mentions are popping up everywhere:

• Mad Men's Season 3 start date was news in TV Guide, TV Squad, the Newark Star-Ledger, Buzzsugar, Vanity Fair and the Chicago Tribune among others.

• Rolling Stone talks to Matt Weiner about Season 3. Says Mad Men's creator: "All I can tell you is that I'm interested in how our successes turn out to be failures and our failures turn out to be successes."

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The Season 3 start date and speculation about Don's divorce from Anna were the hot topics this week.

• "Yippee!!...excuse me while I play 'Happy Days Are Here Again' on my kazoo...(I'll let z and Dry play it on their zippers!)" -- SCfan

• "I wonder how Betty would react if/when she finds out about Don's divorce." -- chatty pattie

• "It would be very hard for Betty to hire a private detective without Don realizing it, given that her money is his money. I'm sure he checks receipts." -- janeeyre

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