Basket of Kisses

Okay. First off, let me say congrats to Mad Men for scoring Emmy nominations in most of the major categories:

Drama
Mad Men

Lead actress drama
Elisabeth Moss

Lead actor
Jon Hamm

More noms:

Outstanding Art Direction For A Single-Camera Series
Mad Men: The Jet Set

Outstanding Casting For A Drama Series
Mad Men: Laura Schiff, Carrie Audino

Outstanding Cinematography For A One Hour Series
Mad Men: The New Girl

Outstanding Costumes For A Series
Mad Men: Meditations in an Emergency
Janie Bryant, Costume Designer
Le Dawson, Costume Supervisor

Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series
Mad Men: The Jet Set
Phil Abraham, Director

Outstanding Hairstyling For A Single-Camera Series
Mad Men: The Gold Violin
Gloria Ponce, Department Head Hairstylist
Katherine Rees, Key Hairstylist
Marilyn Phillips, Additional Hairstylist
Michele Payne, Additional Hairstylist

Outstanding Makeup For A Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic)
Mad Men: The Jet Set
Debbie Zoller, Department Head Makeup Artist
Denise DellaValle, Key Makeup Artist
Ron Pipes, Additional Makeup Artist
Debra Schrey, Additional Makeup Artist

Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series
Mad Men: Maidenform
Cindy Mollo

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series
John Slattery

Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series – Jackpot!!! 4 out of 5 possible nominations
Mad Men: A Night To Remember
Robin Veith
Matthew Weiner

Mad Men: Six Month Leave
Andre Jacquemetton, Writer
Maria Jacquemetton, Writer
Matthew Weiner, Writer

Mad Men: The Jet Set
Matthew Weiner, Writer

Mad Men: Meditations In An Emergency
Kater Gordon, Writer
Matthew Weiner, Writer

WTF SNUBS:

Title Design
Music/Music Direction: David Carbonara
Guest Stars: Robert Morse, Mark Moses, Melinda McGraw, Patrick Fischler, Joel Murray

AND THE THREE MOST GLARING OMISSIONS:

Vincent Kartheiser, Best supporting actor drama series
Christina Hendricks, Best supporting actress drama series

AND

January Jones, Best actress drama series

Joe Bua is so in love with us it’s not even funny.

EW reminds us of a tour of set design elements of Mad Men they did back in October, which I think we missed.

EOnline also posted this really confusing thing, that says “see below” for an exclusive S3 scene, but there’s no, um, “below.”

In yet more EOnline news, their “Tater Tops” awards results are in, and Mad Men wins “Best Grown-up Show.”

People has dish on Christina Hendricks’s wedding plans.

A new cable offering called “MyPrimetime” (spaces between words are so 20th century) includes Mad Men.

Mad Men and Desperate Housewives have revived interest in aprons.

As part of a Mad Men promotion, Variety is offering up its digital archives for 1960–1965.

Monrovia, CA was temporarily shut down for the filming of a Mad Men episode. Basketcase judy brown shares pictures of Monrovia, and says the town has

a preserved downtown that could suit either a 1962-ish setting, the bowl-cut Dick era, or even earlier.

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…I pulled this out of our regular Mad News so it didn’t get stale:

The upcoming release of Mad Men S2 on DVD has everyone excited. It’s an EW pick of the week. Ohio.com describes extras in detail. Playbill’s writer watched it in two days. Gay Wired thinks it’s “devilish viewing.”

Tim Goodman and Robert Philpot each handicap the Emmys, each rating Mad Men as #1 in the drama field. Both men complain about the weirdness of the Emmys; Goodman has a better explanation of the process, but Philpot has a better adjective (byzantine, a favorite of mine).