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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. After several delays, Universal has announced that Lil Wayne’s rock album Rebirth will drop on December 15th. [via MTV]
2. Michiko Kakutani reviews Vladimir Nabokov’s final unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. [via NYT]
3. Is Chia Obama racist scorn or sincere tribute? 77-year-old Chia Pet magnate Joseph Pedott (a… Read More

Design

Matthew Weiner’s Son Reveals His Style Secrets

By Caroline Stanley on

Truth: I can’t stop looking at GQ’s fashion feature on Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner’s 8-year-old son, Arlo Weiner, and his fall style secrets. The Littlest Dandy is even more transfixing than those Terry Richardson Betty Draper photos, but in a very similar way. I think part of the draw is the internal debate I’m having over whether or not it’s meant to be… Read More

Television

Matthew Weiner Talks Mad Men’s Women

By Caroline Stanley on

Pop Candy’s Whitney Matheson just posted an interesting interview with Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner. While it’s worth reading in its entirety if you’re caught up with the series, we found a few non-spoilery things he had to say about three of the show’s leading ladies — Joan, Sally, and Betty — extremely interesting. In fact, we’re surprised that Christina Hendricks looks so cozy with him in the picture to the… Read More

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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. Michael Jackson’s first posthumous single, “This Is It,” which he originally recorded back in 1991, was released earlier today. [via Guardian]
2. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are related — 10th cousins, once removed. [via WaPo]
3. The Knife has debuted a creepy seven-minuted trailer for their Charles Darwin-inspired opera. [via Pitchfork]
4. “Why Email No Longer Rules…” [via WSJ]
5. Remember how Matthew Weiner’s babysitter became an Emmy Award-winning Mad Men scribe? Well, he fired her. [via… Read More

Television

The Back of Don Draper’s Head Lives to See Season 4

By Heather Schwedel on

This just in from The New York Times: AMC has renewed the next season of Mad Men! This might seem about as surprising as ABC renewing Grey’s Anatomy for another season, but despite the show’s critical darling status, it’s not exactly a ratings powerhouse, and we wouldn’t have called season 4 a sure thing by any means. With amazing buzz so far this season, we hope this vote of confidence from AMC will push show creator Matthew Weiner to ever more obsessive levels of genius. Witness, for instance, Sunday night’s boogie session between Pete and his wife Trudy. Is it fair to say the two jitterbugged their way into the hearts of network executives? We think so. Or maybe it was the Charleston? Truth be told, we spent about 15 minutes Sunday night trying to figure out the name of that old-fashioned vaudeville knee-switching optical illusion dance, to no avail. Check it out in all its gloriousness after the… Read More

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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner talk about the season three premiere. [via What's Alan Watching]
2. Goldman Sachs, which owns part of the $24 million loan to photographer Annie Leibovitz, wants to help a sister out. [via Bloomberg]
3. Dave Eggers explains Wild Things, his adaptation of Where the Wild… Read More

Design

Pass the Avocado: Mad Men Your Apartment

By Kelsey Keith on

Crowd favorite and critical darling Mad Men returns to AMC this Sunday night at 10:00 pm EST, which means you have less than six days to whip your space into fighting shape. Don Draper is omnipresent, and he doesn’t want to see your dingy IKEA couch, Target artwork, and paper towels. Besides, what better way to get in Betty’s head than from a kitchen bedecked in preppy plaid and retro yellow appliances? As Don said during his American Airlines pitch, “Let’s pretend we know what 1963 looks… Read More

Television

If You Like Season 3 of Mad Men, Thank Matthew Weiner’s Babysitter

By Caroline Stanley on

Today an article in the Wall Street Journal clued us in that writing staff of Mad Men is dominated by women — in fact, seven out of nine members are female. Perhaps this should come as less of a surprise: Variety’s recent list of top 10 list of screenwriters was 50 percent female. And then there’s Diablo Cody’s Fempire. But women writers in Hollywood usually get pigeonholed into writing romantic comedy (Sex and the City) or dramedy (Grey’s Anatomy).… Read More

Television

Quote of the Day: Don Draper’s California Dreaming

By Heather Schwedel on

I can’t tell you if we’re going to go to California in Season Three, but as a show, we’re following how the Sixties were about the rise of Los Angeles and the decline of New York. People talk about San Francisco but it was really Los Angeles, and I wanted to show that. In 1960, New York is the center of everything, and by 1975 New York is bankrupt and by 1977 it’s the most dangerous place in the United… Read More