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Sterling's Gold: Wit and Wisdom of an Ad Man set for release on November 16, 2010




Product Description
Advertising pioneer and visionary Roger Sterling, Jr., served with distinction in the Navy during World War II, and joined Sterling Cooper Advertising as a junior account executive in 1947. He worked his way up to managing partner before leaving to found his own agency, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, in 1963.

During his long and illustrious career, Sterling has come into contact with all the luminaries and would-be luminaries of the advertising world, and he has acquired quite a reputation among his colleagues for his quips, barbs, and witticisms.

Taken as a whole, Roger Sterling’s pithy comments and observations amount to a unique window on the advertising world—a world that few among us are privileged to witness first—hand—as well as a commentary on life in New York City in the middle of the twentieth century.

A few “sterling” examples:

When a man gets to a point in his life when his name’s on the building,
he can get an unnatural sense of entitlement.

The day you sign a client is the day you start losing him.

Being with a client is like being in a marriage. Sometimes you get into it for the wrong reasons, and eventually they hit you in the face.

When God closes a door, he opens a dress.

Sterling's Gold covers it all: business, marriage, and the taste of success made sweeter with a glass of something strong.

About the Author
Roger Sterling is a Partner at the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce advertising agency; his father founded the original Sterling Cooper in the 1920s with Bertram Cooper. A World War II veteran, Roger has suffered two heart attacks. In the past he’s tried to change his hard-living ways, but is now smoking and drinking again.

Roger divorces his first wife, Mona, after taking up with the much younger Jane Siegel, who briefly worked as Don Draper's secretary. Previously, Roger had a lengthy affair with Joan Holloway, then Sterling Cooper’s Office Manager.

Anticipating a costly divorce settlement with Mona, Roger encourages the takeover of Sterling Cooper by London’s Puttnam, Powell, and Lowe. When the new managers leave him off a corporate organizational chart, however, Roger believes he’s "being punished for making my job look easy." He feels similarly slighted by friends who can’t accept his relationship with Jane. "I made a mistake by being conspicuously happy," he tells Don.

Christina Hendricks vists the Ellen Show on October 14. 2010

The ever gorgeous Mad Men starlet poses for a new photo shoot.








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By Daniel Fiene: I met Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss) last week at the Cologne Conference at the red carpet. I just shot an interview by a ZDF-crew with my flip. I wish the Mad-Men-Crowd all the best for the Mad Men start at ZDF Neo. Have fun with this short interview.

Mad Men's John Slattery (Roger Sterling) is featured in the new Lincoln MKX 2011 commercial.

For an actress frequently compared to Marilyn Monroe, Christina Hendricks looks rather gamine as she walks into Il Buco restaurant in New York's SoHo. She is wearing a black blouse, a pencil skirt, and a beret tilted just so on her flame-red hair, still glamorous from her Bazaar shoot the previous day. We are on what she calls "a lady date" in the restaurant where, a year ago, she married her husband, actor Geoffrey Arend. We sit under a painting of a fellow who looks like Paul Giamatti in John Adams—except with grapes. "Half of my friends posed under that painting," she says with a laugh, ordering off the menu by heart and asking for a "big, sparkly" glass of chilled red wine.


It's been a heady couple of years for Christina. Since she was cast as the imperiously sexy office manager Joan on Mad Men, she has given bold new meaning to "sexy secretary." Men love her—that's a given—but women love her more. She's a relief, because after years of endless bobbleheads on the red carpet, Christina's voluptuous figure (not to mention her total ease with herself) seems entirely remarkable. "Women hit on me," she chuckles. "My husband thinks it's so odd that so many women hit on me." Gay men too. "They say to me, 'Well, I'm not straight, but if I was…' I think it's so flattering."








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According to ausiellofiles, 'Mad Men' star John Slattery will to guest-star on the hit NBC comedy '30 Rock'. Sources say Tina Fey really likes Mad Men and is still finding every available opportunity to work Mad leading man Jon Hamm into the show (including the upcoming live outing)



Slattery will play a candidate running for congress in this season’s seventh episode.

Episode title is "Chinese Wall"

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As Mad Men’s Don Draper, Jon Hamm is a master-of-the-universe type in stylish suits and “helmet hair.” But off-camera he’s just a baseball-loving, New York City foodie who’s not afraid to look like an idiot.



Before AMC cast Jon Hamm to play Don Draper on Mad Men, his acting gigs peaked out with various smaller parts such as an 18-episode run on the series Providence, a two-episode run on CSI: Miami and a supporting role opposite his girlfriend, Jennifer Westfeldt, in the 2001 movie Kissing Jessica Stein. Three years later, it’s hard to think of contemporary culture without the impact of the runaway hit Mad Men, a show that’s become shorthand for a very specific time, place and look, the likes of which hasn’t been seen since Michael Douglas ruled Manhattan as Gordon Gekko in the original Wall Street. This fall the 39-year-old has two films out—The Town, directed by and costarring Ben Affleck, and Howl, a biopic about beat poet Allen Ginsberg—and though he’ll admit that Don Draper has changed the landscape of television and the lives and styles of many of its viewers (especially those in New York), at 8:30 on a Saturday morning before his first cup of coffee, he’d much prefer to talk about baseball and The Big Lebowski. And so we did. Eventually.

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Mad Men's Jon Hamm is on the cover of the latest issue of 'The Observer Magazine'.

Jon Hamm has suggested that people love watching his Mad Men character Don Draper misbehave.

In an interview with The Observer, Hamm admitted that he is surprised that people like Don so much.

"It's a curious phenomenon, I suppose, given the moral turpitude of that character," he joked.



"People are thrilled to watch other people doing this, relieved that they don't have to deal with the consequences - there is a vicarious thrill. It is exciting to see people misbehave. That's a big part of cinema and theatre and television. Watching people who are ostensibly good do bad things, and kind of root for them to get away with it, and know that it's bad and yet..."

However, Hamm claimed that he was "on the bottom of everyone's list" when he auditioned for the part.

"I really, really, really wanted to do it and really, really, really responded to the character," he said. "And really, really felt like I had a handle on it and fit the part well, for whatever reason. I knew it was an enormous risk for the network to put all their chips on... certainly no celebrity of any kind. No name to promote."

He continued: "There's a sense of relief when you get a part that is almost immediately followed by a sense of impending dread - 'Now I have to do it'...'"


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Talks about St. Louis sports.
Talks about how exciting hockey is.
Talks about his all-time Blues lineups.
Talks about which hockey player he'd like to play in a biopic.
Is swoon-worthy in general.





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'Mad' man is talk of 'The Town'

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Q: You've repeatedly played cops on TV. How different is playing a politician?

A: It's very different. A lot of [my previous roles] are these working class guys -- I like to call them "alpha males with issues." They were guys that were deeply flawed in one way or another, and it's fun to play that. The difference between that and playing Henry is that Henry is -- he's not a boy scout, he's certainly flawed. I'm not gonna paint him out to be a saint. But he's certainly a man who knows himself much more. He's been to the puppet show and seen the strings and knowing who he is and having a sense of himself lends itself to a certain kind of maturity and a peace of mind. I like that about him. He's not one of these guys that's gonna fly off the handle.

Q: When you landed the role of Henry, did you think he'd end up marrying Betty?

A: No, I had no idea. I've been [a recurring character] on other shows, and you just never know what's gonna happen. There's certainly nothing in those first two or three episodes that led me to believe that he was gonna marry her.

Q: You play a very calming role in Betty's life this season. Do people often look to you for assurance and advice?

A: I think that's one of the things I relate to with Henry, his capacity for empathy. I think that's a quality I've always had since I was a kid. I was kind of the kid in grade school who, if I saw a bully beating up on a kid, I would go after the bully and I wouldn't think twice about it. I'm certainly not a man with all the answers and people don't generally come to me with their problems, but I've certainly been a shoulder to cry on at different times for different people.

Q: How much did you know about Nelson Rockefeller before the show?

A: I knew a little bit about him, but I researched it more when I found out what Henry did. It was exciting to learn more about who Nelson Rockefeller was and what his politics were, that he was socially progressive. I think that that can inform a lot of people and give them a little insight into who Henry is.

Q: In an earlier episode, the neighbor Glen breaks into the Francis home and makes a mess. Have you ever been the victim of a prank or practical joke?

A: I remember when I was a kid, our house got broken into and they stole our stereo. It wasn't a practical joke -- it was kind of serious. I know what it's like to walk into a house and see your things tampered with and know that somebody else has been there. I think one time, as well, when I was a kid, as a practical joke a few buddies of mine broke into a house and we kind of destroyed it. It was someone that we knew and we thought it would be funny, and obviously we got into a lot of trouble.

Q: What has been the most challenging scene to film this season?

A: There were some scenes in [Episode 8,] "The Summer Man" that were pretty challenging. I think it was on the day that I started shooting that episode, my mom passed away. That made it -- especially for some of the argument scenes, the confrontational scenes that I had with Betty -- it made them a little bit more challenging. But also, things like that oftentimes have a way of putting you in the moment in a very real way.

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