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Psychotherapy: That’ll Be $100,000. Sorry, No Warranty

Posted in Pop Culture, TV, Woman Up, tagged , , , on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

My colleague Mary C. Curtis writes that Betty Draper has returned to the therapist office. “Mad Men” is set in the 1960s, and there’s a good chance Draper’s health insurance picked up 80 percent of that tab, if not the whole shebang. Ah, those were the days. Now, you’re more likely to get three visits [...]

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Bad Hair Day? Madison Avenue Can Fix It — and Fix You, Too

Posted in Pop Culture, TV, tagged , , , on July 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Surprise, surprise! Yet another study pathologizes a common and trivial life disappointment — bad hair days. So says Wall Street Journal, reporting on a new Procter & Gamble study. The company wants to know why their Pantene brand is not selling better. Wall Street Journal writes: “Scientists at the consumer-products giant surveyed women and found [...]

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Christina Hendricks: Full-Figured Never Looked Better

Posted in Pop Culture, TV, Woman Up, tagged , , , , on February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Clothes look good on thin bodies. But thin bodies naked? Not so much. Naked full bodies is another matter. Or near-naked, a la actress Christina Hendricks in a corset on the cover of New York Magazine. Hendricks, a breakout star of AMC’s hit show “Mad Men,” is undeniably beautiful. She’s also a different body type [...]

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Mad Men: Atomic Secretaries & Feminine Mistakes

Posted in Pop Culture, tagged , , , , , on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Horse meat! And a thump on the head. We here at Woman Up are back on the “Mad Men” beat. An attractive, middle-aged widow from Roger Sterling’s past showed up at Sterling Cooper to 1) ask for help handling a public relations crisis at her dog-food company, and 2) cozy up to Roger to see [...]

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Mad Men: His Right Foot

Posted in Pop Culture, tagged , , , , , , , on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

How very topical. Who knew the corporate mindset of squeezing pennies and demoralizing staff went back 50 years? The art of combining period detail with foreshadowing of current events has been perfected by “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner. Last week racial issues were just about to explode in AMC’s hit show (as noted by my [...]

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