It's Thanksgiving, Let's Party!: Ten Films For The Coming Weeks

John Farr, 11.25.2009

Writer, editor and lecturer on timeless film

Get ready, folks, for the coming blur of forced reunions, work-related functions, and cacophonous Christmas parties.

Meditations In an Emergency

Travis Nichols, 11.19.2009

Editor at the Poetry Foundation.

O'Hara and Schuyler are great poets for hard times. Friends who have been there, and, it seems, will continue to be, they give us courage to go on our nerve in whatever emergencies arise.

In Defense of Betty Draper

Danny Miller, 11.17.2009

Danny Miller is a writer and book editor in Los Angeles.

My feelings about Mad Men's Betty Draper were so strong during this season that I began to wonder if they were really about the TV character at all, and not my own mother.

Mad Men and the Decline of America

Vivian Norris de Montaigu, 11.16.2009

Based in Paris and holds a PhD in Cinema Studies

As Don Draper reminds us again and again, love is something a guy like him creates to sell us nylons. We buy, we consume, we dream, but we need to build something real again.

TV Notes: Mad Men, V, General Hospital, Dollhouse, Vampire Diaries, Batman: Brave and the Bold and More

Ed Martin, 11.14.2009

JackMyers.com Television Critic

It's been a week and I am still recovering from the excitement of the season finale of AMC's Mad Men. In this column just a few weeks ago, before the ...

Channeling Betty Draper: Will She Smile Before Next Season's Final Episode of Mad Men?

Susan Weissman, 11.11.2009

Writes about Allergies and Parenting

For better or worse, confidence is not Betty Draper's problem. She may be quietly furious but she knows that she is a gorgeous monied honey; a paragon of Kennedy-era femininity.

Mickey Becomes a Rat And We All Like It: Why Are Our Heroes All Dark?

Lennard Davis, 11.11.2009

Lennard J. Davis is Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago

What's happened to Mickey? I read today that Disney is about to launch a new Mickey video game in which our hero's sunny personality is going dark side.

Mad Men Politiku

Susanna Speier, 11.12.2009

Multiplatform Scribe, Susannaspeier.com

Politiku is about politics. At least, ever since its launch last spring, my HuffPost Politiku column has been. Obama, The Supreme Court, Iran, Healt...

Lay Off Betty Draper-Francis

Janet Turley, 11.10.2009

Graphics and marketing professional

The dashing and exciting bad boy ended up being a sh*t husband. Good for Betty. As far as other fans speculating that Henry Francis wants control over Betty, it's too soon to tell for me.

Mad Men's Sensational Season Finale -- HuffPost Review

William Bradley, 11.10.2009

California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com

It's action-packed, and not just for Mad Men, a show whose pace can sometimes be exceedingly deliberate. And it's fun, especially in contrast to the two shattering episodes which precede it.

It's November 22, 1963 On Mad Men: HuffPost Review

William Bradley, 11.04.2009

California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com

I've always wondered how Mad Men's writers and producers would handle one of the most critical and shattering events in American history, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Halloween Costumes Ripped From The Headlines

Glynnis MacNicol, 10.31.2009

Senior Editor, Mediaite.com

So it's the morning of Halloween, and you don't have a costume. You were going to be Kanye West, but the friend you were counting on to be your Taylor...

When Everything Changed, by Gail Collins

Elaine Showalter, 10.29.2009

Reviewer for Progressive Book Club

Collins uses her great sense of revealing anecdotes, engaging personalities, representative case histories, resonant stories, and startling details to defamiliarize a decade we thought we remembered.

Mad Men: "The Gypsy and the Hobo" -- HuffPost Review

William Bradley, 10.27.2009

California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com

"The Gypsy and the Hobo" has significantly stepped up the pace of this season of Mad Men. And it contains the big confrontation we've all been waiting for from the beginning.

Sexism and the Workplace: Have We Come a Long Way (Baby)?

Vivian Norris de Montaigu, 10.24.2009

Based in Paris and holds a PhD in Cinema Studies

The reality is that, even if you are a female executive at Goldman Sachs, you will never be part of the "boys' club" -- and guess what, it's still a boys' club.

A Follow Up: "Hank Moody: For Women Only" (Question)

Reese Schonfeld, 10.24.2009

Television journalist

Despite at times being self-centered, lewd and at times irresponsible, would you date and/or marry Hank Moody?

Mad Men and the High Cost of Advertising

James Block, 10.21.2009

That Mad Men chronicles the rise of contemporary advertising should be our first warning. The fantasy machine that propels the American consumer culture achieves this leverage simply with make believe.

Don Draper: For Women Only, Please Respond

Reese Schonfeld, 10.19.2009

Television journalist

I am associated with the Culture Change Institute, a Tufts based group founded by Sam Huntington and Larry Harrison, which examines various cultures r...

Mad Men: "The Color Blue" -- HuffPost Review

William Bradley, 10.19.2009

California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com

Last night's "The Color Blue" was a cracking good episode that, after last week's rushed and rather arbitrary plot developments, returned Mad Men to its strongest ground.

TV Review: The Cleveland Show

Catie Lazarus, 10.12.2009

www.doctorlazarus.com

"I'm not the one who called Child Protection Services," Cleveland yells at his wife Roberta, until he (unsurprisingly) realizes, after much back and f...

Mad Men: "Wee Small Hours" -- HuffPost Review

William Bradley, 10.12.2009

California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com

Listening to Martin Luther King on the murder of four girls in a Birmingham church, Betty opines that maybe this civil rights thing is premature. But Betty should know that a dream deferred can dry up like a raisin in sun.