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TV weekend: Kristen Wiig returns to SNL; Survivor finale
Brace yourself. Aunt Linda, Triangle Sally, Sexy Shana, Gilly and Björk are back. Saturday Night Live royalty returns to the late-night comedy spotlight in the second-to-last live show of SNL’s 38th...
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Fine Tuning Weekend: Mad Men enrages viewers; David Steinberg biography
Many viewers are mad about Mad Men, and not in a good way. Even longtime believers in the emotionally complex, deeply drawn drama about a Madison Ave. ad agency during the heydays of Pan Am, Playtex,...
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His life a wreck, Don Draper heeds a wakeup call as ’Mad Men’ season reaches...
By Frazier Moore NEW YORK — We have now left Don Draper in a state ripe for rehab — both literally and figuratively. Airing Sunday night, the season finale of “Mad Men” found its troubled hero reeling...
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Chasing Emmy: Nomination predictions in major categories.
The next time someone tells you that television is tripe and that nothing on TV is worth watching, tell them that they haven’t been to the movies lately. The Emmys recently expanded the number of...
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Larry David channels his Angry Old Man to promote new film Clear History
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Lawrence Gene “Larry” David was in his element, playing the curmudgeon, burying himself in the role of the Angry Old Man, working the room with a non-stop stream of ripostes,...
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Emmy Awards 2013: Best and worst moments (with video)
From unexplained Beatles covers to Breaking Bad’s triumphant victory here are the best and worst moments from the 65th Emmy awards: Best red carpet moment: Claire Danes videobombes Lena Dunham Like a...
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TV Thursday: The Crazy Ones not crazy enough, despite Robin Williams (with...
Carpe diem, dude. Robin Williams seizes the spotlight early and often in The Crazy Ones, but it’s a straitjacketed version of the legendary funnyman. There are glimmers of the standup virtuoso who can...
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TV year-end: The 5 Best TV Episodes of the Year (with video)
PHOTO: AMCAnna Gunn in Breaking Bad We watch TV season by season, but we remember the best seasons not for how they made us feel overall but for those single moments that jump out at us and make a...
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Pop forecast for April 7: Mad Men, Draft Day and more
Chris Lackner “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan sang. But these days, a guide through the seemingly endless flurry of pop culture offerings is just what we need....
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It’s a mad, mad, Mad Men world
Mad Men is the most stylish and sophisticated show on television, that rare human drama that speaks more loudly through silences and awkward pauses than words. The final season bows Sunday, with many...
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TV Sunday: The Simpsons airs all-Lego episode (with video)
There are milestones, and then there’s The Simpsons. TV’s most enduring and endearing animated show celebrates its — get this — 550th episode with a stunt to end all stunts. The episode, Brick Like Me,...
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Jon Hamm flexes his Million Dollar Arm (with video)
Jon Hamm will always be associated with Mad Men advertising executive Don Draper. but as the acclaimed series winds down, he’s winding up on other projects. Million Dollar Baby is one of those other...
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Lake Bell the sweetheart of Million Dollar Arm (with video)
Lake Bell is a writer, director and actor who can do comedy and drama and sometimes a portrayal in between. Her co-starring role opposite Jon Hamm in Million Dollar Arm might be that sort of...
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Movie review: Million Dollar Arm a swing and a miss (with video)
Million Dollar Arm Three stars out of five Starring: Jon Hamm, Alan Arkin, Lake Bell, Aasif Mandvi Directed by: Craig Gillespie Running time: 124 minutes It’s a box of Cracker Jack with curry, and...
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Mad Men teasers deliberately maddening, vague (with video)
Mad Men moves inexorably towards its midseason finale, darkness visible. The spring finale airs Sunday, May 25. There will be a break of at least several months before the final seven episodes of its...
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TV Sunday: Mad Men airs midseason finale (with video)
Don Draper (Jon Hamm) is at sea, spiritually and emotionally, as Mad Men makes its early midseason exit. It’s 1969, two years after the musical Hair and its popular song Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In,...
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Emmys preview: Contenders, likely picks and also-rans (with video)
There are a few things to know every time the Emmy nominations draw near. The people who vote for the Emmys watch less TV than most TV viewers do. The nominees are chosen by screening committees....
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White House recruits celebrities for sexual assault PSA
Jon Hamm, Kerry Washington, Rose Byrne and other celebrities have joined U.S. president Barack Obama and vice president Joe Biden for a PSA about sexual assault. Made for the launch of the “It’s On Us”...
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DVD releases for Oct. 7: Edge of Tomorrow, Million Dollar Arm and more
MARQUEE CRUISING Edge of Tomorrow: Three- and-a-half stars out of five — Watching Tom Cruise die over and over again may be the best thing about this science-fiction thriller. Emily Blunt gets to play...
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The unexpected costs of cancer
Cory King may not have the celebrity power of Will Ferrell, Ariana Grande, Jennifer Aniston or Jon Hamm — some of the stars on last month’s massive Stand Up to Cancer telethon. But the young man from...
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Cranston puts on a show at TV Critics Association Awards
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Bryan Cranston was there to entertain the room with his parade of notions, and he did exactly that: The Breaking Bad star and three-consecutive Emmy winner’s opening monologue...
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Early Buzz: Taylor Swift, Jessica Timberlake, Britney Spears
She may have just released one of the most successful albums of the year but Taylor Swift is already planning for the next one. The singer and upcoming song subject Conor Kennedy have reportedly broken...
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Early Buzz: Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm and more
Rihanna is nude on the latest cover of GQ — and yet, we can’t quite tell if the magazine was correct to call her one of their “Men of the Year.” Have a second look for us, won’t you? — Five out of five...
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Golden Globe snubs and surprises (Moonrise Kingdom! The Master! Mad Men!...
The Golden Globes will be mining American history this year — both strange, and stranger than fiction — as this year’s top nominees include Lincoln, Django Unchained and Argo. Canada.com has more on...
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The Best TV of 2012
“The fact that television exists in so remote a land,” the restless travel writer Tim Cahill wrote of Hiva Oa in the Marquesas Islands, in his travel story Visions of Terror and Paradise, “in a place...
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Mad Men is “non-judgmental” says creator
Even on first viewing, Mad Men provides a cornucopia of pixelated pleasures and classic cool. If ever there was a series designed for DVD, though, Mad Men is it. Soaked in the jazzy atmosphere of the...
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Mad Men actors forced to smoke herbal cigarettes
Smoking is a sign of style, élan and being a man’s man, the admen on Mad Men believe — just as their real-life counterparts who worked at Madison Avenue ad agencies in the early 1960s did. Lucky Strike...
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‘Pretty dark’ future for Don, says Mad Men’s Jon Hamm
Jon Hamm is comfortable in his own skin these days, even if he does draw stares as he makes his way to Le Grand Trianon room on the mezzanine level of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. It’s hard to draw...
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TV weekend: Hockey doc, Golden Globes
SATURDAY For a minute there it looked as if the NHL season would go the way of a bad sitcom. Instead, to the relief of fans, players, arena owners and, lest we forget, those below-the-line workers who...
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Robert Pattinson hit the Golden Globes, so where was Kristen Stewart?
Like us, maybe you watched the Golden Globes Sunday night. And maybe today you spent some time going through Canada.com’s photos from inside the Golden Globes after parties. Maybe — restraining orders...
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Mad Men returning April 7 with two-hour premiere
AMC says Mad Men will return for its new season on April 7. AMC announced Wednesday that the two-hour premiere kicks off the acclaimed drama series’ sixth season. The episode was written by Mad Men...
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TV weekend: Screen Actors Guild Awards, hockey
Award shows are a dime a dozen this time of year, but the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards show promises the true film and TV aficionado with something different. It’s not only that the awards...
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Jon Hamm’s ham too large for Mad Men?
Mad Men star Jon Hamm’s John Ham is reportedly too hefty for high definition. According to the New York Daily News, Hamm’s package is so distracting that he’s been asked to wear underwear to mask it...
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Stop looking at Jon Hamm’s penis
Jon Hamm would like you (yes, you) to stop looking at his ham. “They’re called ‘privates’ for a reason,” the Mad Men star tells Rolling Stone in this month’s cover story. Hamm’s ham was thrust into the...
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Endings are hard for Mad Men, onscreen and off (with video)
PASADENA, Calif. — The long goodbye is almost over, and for Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss and the other familiar faces of Mad Men, the moment is suddenly very real. Hamm, sporting a neatly trimmed but still...
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Pop Forecast for March 30: Furious 7, Mad Men and more (with video)
Chris Lackner “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan sang. But these days, a guide through the seemingly endless flurry of pop culture offerings is just what we need....
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Jon Hamm reflects on the success of Mad Men (with video)
Don Draper, dapper and doomed. After 85 episodes of watching Mad Men’s central character create ad campaigns and destroy marriages, viewers will say goodbye to the man whose freshly pomaded hair is as...
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Jessica Paré says ‘anything goes’ after Mad Men (with video)
When Jessica Paré’s character Megan left her husband Don Draper for good last month on Mad Men, it was in grand style: She called him “an aging, sloppy, selfish liar,” took his cheque for $1 million...
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