Bryan Batt

Authors and Agents and Tennessee Williams Fest [Oh My!]

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 04.26.2012

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'Sometimes pain is just pain,' she said," which is something one of my characters says in Glow. My writing experience had come full circle. I am most grateful to the people of Rabun County who midwifed Glow into being.

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WATCH: Will Any Gay Characters Return To Mad Men?, From Jon Hamm

Posted 03.23.2012

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Jon Hamm, star of the hit television show "Mad Men", talks about Bryan Batt and his character Sal Romano. And, he leaves us wondering, will we be seei...

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Mad Man of the South: Bryan Batt's Big, Easy Style

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 02.17.2012

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AMC's Mad Men brought brought Bryan Batt international fame, but his character left the screen last year. His new book, Big, Easy Style, now tops of Amazon's bestseller list in home decor.

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PHOTOS: Love It Or Leave It?

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 12.16.2011

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Christina Hendricks stepped out to last night to celebrate "Big, Easy Style." No, not big and easy clothing style (particularly in the upper body ...

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An Ode to Steel Magnolias and Their Sons

Cathy Whitlock | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gayle Batt is the vivacious and larger-than-life mother of actor Bryan Batt and the subject of his memoir (also coined his "momoir").

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Talking with Mad Men's Bryan Batt(LISTEN)

Jeff Rivera | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bryan Batt who plays Salvatore Romano on the hit show, Mad Men talks with us today about how he believes his character deserved a better send-off on the show, the challenges of being an openly gay actor in Hollywood, and his upcoming episodes of Ugly Betty.

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Bryan Batt Talks Sal's 'Mad Men' Fate, Hollywood's Gay Problem

Katy Hall | Posted 05.25.2011

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"If you are openly gay, the masses can be asses and sometimes can't get past the fact that that's how someone lives their private life," said Batt, who has been with his partner, Tom Cianfichi, for 21 years. "Some actors have to make a choice."

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Sal Leaving 'Mad Men': Bryan Batt Out Of Work

Posted 05.25.2011

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Don Draper unceremoniously fired Salvatore Romano when a spurned gay client tried to out him towards the end of last season, and now it looks we won't...

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Mad Men Sweeps the Latest Awards and Loses A Key Character

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

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The last month has brought some good news, and some bad, from the Mad Men front.

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

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

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Mad Men: "Out of Town": Season 3 Opener Satisfying If Not Scintillating

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

A satisfactory if not scintillating opener for the third season of Mad Men. The show captures the air of uncertainty that grips today's U.S. economy, and hints at major culture clash ahead.

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Mad Men Returns: The '60s Advertising Drama Is A Time Tunnel To the Present

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

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There are a number of ways to view Mad Men. For my own part, I can take it as a period piece, a sort of time capsule of the early '60s, at once relatively close yet far enough away to be intriguing for its unfamiliarity.

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