Linda Moss

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Maybe Sterling Cooper Should Do An Ad Campaign For 'Mad Men'

This past weekend Mad Men lead Jon Hamm did a stint hosting Saturday Night Live , and his intro poked funat the conundrum of the AMC show: It’s critically revered, the first basic-cable series to win an Emmy as best drama, yet relatively few people have seen it. In his SNL intro, Hamm alluded to Mad Men’ s relative obscurity. The dark, handsome actor also said that when... More

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Crashing the Post-Emmy Soirees

Forgive me for any typos or misspellings because I’ve just ended my evening of post-Emmy festivities. It’s 1:30 a.m. PST, and I’m jetlagged after coming to L.A. Saturday from New York. It’s been a busy night. The Governor’s Ball after the 60 th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony was held in the Los Angeles Convention Center, which was beautifully... More

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I Wanna Do Bad Things With You

I don’t know if HBO’s True Blood will be a hit, but it had me at hello with its opening credits. Alessandra Stanley, the TV critic for The New York Times  went so far as to describe the show’s opening montage as “amazing, hallucinatory,” and suggested that the actual show didn’t live up to its introduction.     The... More

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FX’s New Vic Mackey Is A Woman

Cable’s given us a crop of 40-something female protagonists, flawed and antiheroic, in the past few years. Two of them have been police detectives, portrayed byHolly Hunter in Saving Grace and Kyra Sedgwick in The Closer, both on TNT. Hunter’s character is hard-drinking and promiscuous, sleeping with her married colleague and parading around naked in front of a window for... More

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The TCA ‘Mad Men’ Set Visit: No, I Didn’t Steal Any Ashtrays

I’m not sure if Mad Men executive producer Matt Weiner was tongue-in-cheek joking or not when he asked TV critics touring the show’s set Tuesday not to walk off with any souvenirs. “Please be respectful of the set, and we say this to everyone who comes to visit: Don’t take anything,” Weiner told several busloads of writers assembled for the set visit.... More