Basket of Kisses

• I am a TV Junkie uses his knowledge of Don Draper for good.
• Denver blogger John Scherer muses on the huge technological changes in office life since Mad Men (which is, hello, two words).
• Newsday interviews Elisabeth Moss, and like a dork I comment with a correction. Dork!
• Memphis-based Commercial Appeal does a homegirl article on Janie Bryant and the remarkable Mad Men clothing. I didn’t know that Betty wore Janie’s grandmother’s wedding dress!
• The Boston Globe examines parenting on Mad Men.
• How to achieve Don Draper hair: The New York Times launches a 2 part investigation.
• Variety thinks Jon Hamm is the next George Clooney.

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• The Austin American-Statesman looks at the influence of Mad Men on the fashions in local ad agencies.
• Newsday is using a mantra to make sure Mad Men wins the Emmy.
• Newsweek has a really fun and lengthy roundtable with Emmy nominees, including John Slattery.
• Fox News speculates about the Emmys, quoting Hamm and hoping for a wardrobe malfunction (in separate paragraphs—if a Basketcase had written it, she’d be hoping for a Hamm wardrobe malfunction).
• SF Gate’s Tim Goodman also discusses the Emmy show in general, and then gets into Will Win/Should Win. For Best Drama, he gives both nods to Mad Men, for Best Actor, he gives neither to Hamm (the rat!) and for Best Supporting Actor, Slattery is not on his radar either.
• The Star Press of Indiana gives the should/will to House for both drama and actor, saying it “has all the quality of Mad Men, plus an audience” (except that House is a formulaic medical mystery drama and Mad Men is not. Other than that, of course). As House himself would say, they’re “idiots.”

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