Don Draper

If you haven't had a chance to watch Mad Men yet, you're definitely missing out. It is one of the wittiest and most interesting shows on TV for a long time. Created by The Sopranos writer Matt Weiner, Mad Men is the story of a early 1960s advertising executive Don Draper, played by Best Actor nominee Jon Hamm. Draper is a bit of a ladies-man and has a picture-perfect wife and family at home, and he works at the agency cooking up slogans for Lucky Strike and Bethlehem Steel. When asked whom...Read Full Story

by Martin Filler Frank Ockenfels 3 Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss), Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and Joan Holloway (Christina Hendricks) A major theme in literature is a wistful regard for life as it was lived some forty or fifty years earlier, typified by Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence (1920), which looked back at upper-class mores in 1870s New York. Similarly, the five-decade postmillennial perspective afforded through the rear-view mirror of Mad Men —the critically acclaimed and...Read Full Story

It’s about time! Why has Mad Men never taken the cover of Rolling Stone before? Too retro? Not rock n’ roll enough? But with the new season officially entering the Swingin’ 60s (it’s now 1965 in the Mad Men universe), perhaps it’s time. But what’s with the cover? My first reaction: THE HAMM!!! My second reaction: BOOBS. Third reaction: Why does everyone look so strange? Photoshop, my loves. Final reaction: who do I have to blow to get Jon Slattery on the cover?!? Here’s a little teaser from...Read Full Story

Just a few hours to go before Season 4 of Mad Men sadly comes to a close. And what a year it’s been… For me this season of the 60’s set drama has been undoubtedly the show’s strongest year to date. Gone were the teething problems of the past – the sometimes sluggish pacing, excessive talkiness and drifting silences – replaced by a show that’s literally gone from strength to strength each and every week. There honestly hasn’t been a bad Mad Men episode all season long and the show’s...Read Full Story

Don Draper is the fictional protagonist in the AMC television networks series, Mad Men. He is played by the winner of the 2008 Golden Globe award, Jon Hamm . This character is based in part on the real-life creative director, Draper Daniels, who created the Marlboro Man advertising campaign for the Leo Burnett agency in Chicago in the 1950s. Draper was, until the end of the third season, the creative director for a fictional New York advertising agency, Sterling Cooper. Just before the firm...Read Full Story