“Mad Men” Recap: 504, “Mystery Date”

18.05.12

Think about that title for a moment: “Mystery Date.” Nothing arbitrary going on here — not only is it a reference to the cheesy board game commercial Sally Draper watches in Morticia and Lurch’s haunted mansion, it speaks to Don Draper’s latest race against a past that is always catching up with him. The ghosts haunting our hero, especially the ones from his sexual past, are legion. It speaks to the arrival of shady Army surgeon Capt. Greg “Frank Burns” Harris, a textbook example of man at his worst disguised as a Real American Hero(tm). There could be others, but the final and most horrible reference is to the July 13-14 strangulation murders of eight Chicago nursing students at the hands of one of worst criminal monsters of the 20th century, Richard Speck, and the perverse fascination it holds for the hideous Pauline Francis.

As the gleaming stainless steel elevator doors open in the Time-Life Building, we hear Don Draper (Jon Hamm) before we see him, and he sounds like he’s going to barf up a lung. No one gets the flu like a heavy smoker gets the flu, and right now the God of Advertising looks about 10 years older than 40. He enters the elevator with Megan (Jessica Pare), who is, per usual, the picture of health and sex.

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Shop from home for eternal gems

18.05.12

Flowers are pretty but they only last a week. Quality jewellery lasts a lifetime.

Williams The Jewellers specialises in engagement, wedding and eternity rings, handmade watches and old-fashioned customer service. Its jewellers can design and make jewellery for customers from scratch, on-site, using only the highest quality gems.

Old-fashioned their values and service may be, but Williams The Jewellers has a website and offers products for sale online for the convenience of customers whose preference is to shop from home.

The website features jewellery and accessories to suit every taste and budget. Products are ranked by price, and there is a link to store specials.

Owner Vanessa Williams said gift ideas started at just $20, and ranged from sterling silver to nine- and 18-carat gold, and pearls.

The website also includes gift ideas for men, accessories for sale, and a list of brands available for sale. You can also click on a link to view examples of their handmade rings.

Source: Newcastle Herald

“Mad Men” Recap: 503, “Tea Leaves”

18.05.12

Much of a surprise, really. The realities of our modern media age dictate that we know everything about the production and inner workings of our favorite series, which means most of us knew that January Jones was pregnant going into this season. So there were essentially four options: they could lens Jones the way they worked around Julia Louis Dreyfus’ pregnancy on “Seinfeld,” shooting her from the shoulders up and making her wear men’s dress shirts from the big-and-tall store; let Betty get pregnant by Henry, which would be a chamber of horrors that would make Gail and Joan’s scenes look like tea time at the Plaza; have Megan accidentally kill Betty in a sexy dancing mishap; or let Betty indulge in sundaes throughout the week, thereby allowing Jones to gain whatever weight she needed to during the pregnancy while still having a much needed presence on the show and not turning the season into “Mad Babies.” That title, of course, conjures an image of well-dressed cartoon toddlers trying to make the Heinz Baked Beans guy happy and drinking way too many juice boxes on the job. Coming to Nickelodeon in 2013!

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