In preparation for the return of "Mad Men" on August 16, AMC has created a super fun feature on its web site called "Mad Men Yourself" where you can create a little cartoon version of what you might look like in the world of Sterling Cooper.
Here's what I imagine I would look like on an evening out on the town with Don Draper:
And as his trusty secretary:
UPDATE 10 a.m. 7/28: For dance fans, here's a great link to several New Yorker articles written over the years about Cunningham.
ORIGINAL ENTRY: Choreographer Merce Cunningham, one of the towering figures of the 20th Century in modern choreography, died Sunday in Manhattan. He was 90. From the New York Times:
Mr. Cunningham ranks with Isadora Duncan, Serge Diaghilev, Martha Graham and George Balanchine in making people rethink the essence of dance and choreography, posing a series of "But" and "What if?" questions over a career of nearly seven decades. He went on doing so almost to the last. Until 1989, when he reached age 70, he appeared in every single performance given by his ensemble, Merce Cunningham Dance Company ... Even in his final days, he told visitors who came to bid farewell that he was still creating dances in his head. In his final years he became almost routinely hailed as the world's greatest living choreographer.
I hope that "So You Think You Can Dance" pays some sort of tribute to Cunningham on this week's show.
We'd love to see you debate Rick Bentley's one-minute review of the film. He, uhhhh, thought it was the best movie of the year.**
** If today were opposite day.
We got another documentary opening at Tower Theatre tonight -- this one is "Fuel," an activist flick about our country's dependence on oil. The movie includes appearances from Neil Young, Larry David, Sheryl Crow, Willie Nelson and others.
Rumor control: We've heard a vicious one (via a promoter, of course) that Young and Crow might be in town for the showing tonight. Everything we've heard from other sources says that is not happening.
By the end of the episode, Harris, a restaurant interior designer, will know if she has hit the romance jackpot with the 25 potential soulmates or missed out again. You might remember she got snubbed on "The Bachelor."
She's narrowed the field to two: Ed, the Chicago Technology Consultant, and Kiptyn, the Encinitas business developer.
It is now all up to Cupid.
A look back at the weekend that was -- add your own weekend adventures in the comments.
SATURDAY
It's all sort of an inside joke with Griffin. To get her comedy, you have to know all the Jon & Kate gossip, be up on your "Real Housewives" and know the difference between Nancy Grace's accent and Paula Dean's accent.
This works, of course, because her fans eat up every word. They live squarely in the same world Griffin does and look to her stories as insider peeks. Overall, it was a funny show -- even if you're a guy like me who only peripherally knows some of this stuff. If someone there didn't know Speidi ... well, then they might have been a bit lost. (p.s. Props to whoever thought to give out free Griffin masks like the one above).
Whew. For me, it started last Thursday night with the first half of the exquisite Alexander Quartet, which closed Summer Arts with a bang. Then I rushed to Good Company's "Sweet Charity," starring the indefatigable Tami Cowger, for the opening-night show. On Friday I caught CenterStage's impressive "Beauty and the Beast" in Clovis. I collapsed on Saturday (hey, I've been going to lots of Summer Arts stuff), and then on Sunday caught a three-hour-plus performance of "Il Trovatore," sponsored by California Opera, at the Tower Theatre.
And now, this morning I'm off to a press screening of the Venice Film Festival hit "The Hurt Locker." It is scheduled to open Friday in Fresno. When I get back to the office I'll start writing my little fingers off. I plan to post reviews of "Sweet Charity" and "Beauty and the Beast" by tomorrow morning, and "The Hurt Locker" review is scheduled to run in Friday's 7 section if it does indeed open here.
I didn't catch the weekend's big-deal event, which was the Kathy Griffin performance at the Saroyan Theatre, but I talked to friends who went, and they said she was a riot. (She even tried out a bunch of new Michael Jackson jokes.)
What did you do this weekend?
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