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Mad Men Nabs a PGA Nom; Matt Weiner Talks Modern Manhood

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It's early December, and that means it's time for the build up to the award and the holiday gift-giving seasons. Details about the show's PGA nod, bobblehead toys, and a photo of Jon Hamm in 1957 dress below:

• The Producer's Guild announced its nominations earlier this week. Mad Men has a chance to repeat in the Norman Felton Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Television -- Drama category. The series is up against Lost, Dexter, True Blood and AMC's Breaking Bad. The awards will be handed on Jan. 24. Stories too on E! Online, the LA Times and Inside TV.

• The AP spends some time with Bryan Batt as he prepares his home decor shop for the holiday season.

• Something we'd like to find under the tree this season, but alas, isn't for sale: A Don Draper bobblehead. (There's also one for Joan.) The dolls were created to promote Season 3 down in New Zealand.

• Season 2 of Mad Men has begun airing in Asia and AsiaOne calls it "insanely good." And speaking of the Pacific Rim, Media's 2009 Agency of the Year awards, will be themed around Mad Men. The awards ceremony takes place in Singapore. 

• NY Times columnist Stuart Elliott ponders about the real-life collision possibilities with Mad Men, including, "if the fourth season ... proceeds as far as the New York City blackout of 1965, will Robert Morse ... run into the younger version of himself filming the movie 'Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?'" Whoa.

• Elliott has another piece looking at revived campaign for Puerto Rico, one that originated in the Mad Men era.

• This men's fashion gallery by Hunter & Gatti draws its influence from the series.

• The Huffington Post compares the similarities between Mad Men and North by Northwest, given the latter's recent 50th anniversary DVD release, down to their title sequences. 

• The new essay collection, The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Frontline of Modern Manhood, includes some wisdom from Matt Weiner, a former classmate of the author, Tom Matlack.

• E! Online put together a gallery of gays on TV, which includes Sal Romano (but not Kurt!)

• The New York Times has a post about Ryan Cutrona (Grandpa Gene) who is starring in a commercial for Kayak.com.

The Allen Ginsberg biopic, Howl, will premiere at Sundance next month. Collider has some images, including one of Jon Hamm as attorney Jake Ehrlich.

• In movie casting news, Unthinkable comic creator would like to see John Slattery cast as part of the story's Think Tank. "He can outsnark anyone and give the action movie a little dose of dark humor," says Mark Sable.

Posted by Lily Oei
December 4, 2009 11:49am

Filed under: Press & Related Links

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By Alison Phalan on December 5, 2009 8:31 AM

I am missing my weekly adventures of Mad Men. I have been watching since the first season.
I was working in the late 60's and early 70's and knew women like Joan and Peggy. Of course the men were much like they are portrayed on Mad Men. I used to call them Kings in Little Kingdoms (only to myself and family).
But most of all I watch the jewelry the women wear. In the first season, Joan had a copper necklace that looked like it could be Rebajes. I was trying to figure if Joan would have worn that...and Betty had inexpensive costume jewelry on when I expected her to be wearing Miriam Haskell. But recently, the "Betty Draper" in my life passed away and her family asked me to go through her jewelry. Well, there was Haskell, but there was also Sarah Coventry, Coro, Napier and other more common pieces. I realized then that Mad Men had put the right jewelry on Betty. That it is the woman, so powerful and dazzling, mysterious and subtle, that makes the jewelry attractive.
Alison Phalan

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By SCD&Pfan on December 6, 2009 4:08 PM


That doll looks nothing like Don Draper....although the box is funny....wish there was a closeup so we could read all the copy on it.

His hat looks like a Doris Day reject from Pillow Talk....just sayin'....not to diss Doris....she looked great in her hats, mostly (although I remember a few that rivaled Trudy's "fez" number (or was it a huge licorice gum drop??)

Oh well, I guess it's just a Ken doll redux?

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By sara on May 15, 2010 3:32 PM

Madmen is awesome. Blog commenting service