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No, I’m serious, these are real. Mattel has produced these four collectibles, in co-operation with AMC, and they can be yours for $74.95. (That’s in 2010 dollars.)
I’m a little creeped out by the emo-looking eyeshade on Roger and Don, but it’s nice to see that even representation in Barbie form cannot overexaggerate Christina …
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Mad Men‘s third-season finale airs Sunday night, and because of Matthew Weiner’s understandable desire for secrecy, it’ll be the first episode of the season critics won’t be seeing in advance. So I’ll be watching on plain, old-fashioned TV, like the little people do.
What does this mean for my post-show reviewing? I may end up doing …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, slow the playback to one-quarter speed and watch last night’s Mad Men.
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You would think that a series set in 1963 would be a series with limited potential for product tie-ins, but you would be wrong. Introducing the Brooks Brothers exclusive Limited Edition Mad Men Suit.
Well, I now know who I’m going as for Halloween!
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“Amy [Poehler] and I are honored to be presenting on the last official year of network broadcast television,” said Julia Louis-Dreyfus at the Emmy awards last night. She was joking. Or was she? The Emmys, hosted with song and wit by Neil Patrick Harris, was the funniest and most entertaining TV awards-cast in recent memory. But it also …
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Folk singer Mary Travers died yesterday from leukemia at age 72. Peter, Paul and Mary should not have been at all my thing: a group of completely earnest folk icons of the ’60s is probably as close to the opposite of my usual taste as is possible. But there was always something entrancing about Travers, who was anything but the sterotype …
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The 2009 Emmy nominations came out this morning, bigger and—well, yeah, bigger. To spread the nominee wealth, draw in more fans of more shows (and, maybe, to increase the odds that the broadcast networks won’t get shut out by cable), the major categories were bumped up to six and even seven nominees.
The result: even more …
