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Film clip: \"Mad Men\"AP EntertainmentLos Angeles, 20 August 20072. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jon Hamm/Actor, \"Don Draper\":\"In a broader context the show is about American culture and...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e++No re-use/re-sale of film/ TV clips without clearance++\u003cbr/\u003e1. Film clip: \"Mad Men\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 20 August 2007\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jon Hamm/Actor, \"Don Draper\":\u003cbr/\u003e\"In a broader context the show is about American culture and what makes people happy in American culture and that is where I get most of my ideas about the show. It is set in this industry that exists solely to tell people what is going to make them happy.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Film clip: \"Mad Men\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 20 August 2007\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Matthew Weiner/Executive Producer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"What I am saying about the period is that it is a lot like now. I think things don't change on some level, that manners have changed and a lot of the human attitudes have gone underground and I am writing about people dealing with the issues in their lives. Socially things are different, they have to keep them more to themselves - you are not allowed to talk about yourself, you're not allowed to share it all out in the open and have a blog and everything, so they are really trying to function. But, it is harsh.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Film clip: \"Mad Men\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 20 August 2007\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jon Hamm/Actor, \"Don Draper\":\u003cbr/\u003e\"Of course when you look back on it, you tend to forget all the mistakes that were made or tough parts of society, culture and all of the other things that have wrapped up into that. When you remove that veil, you can look back on it with a much more critical eye and a much clearer vision of what actually happened and you don't have the baggage of having lived through it. You can look at it and say 'you know what? People were racist, they were homophobic, they were horribly anti-semitic, they treated women like property.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Film clip: \"Mad Men\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 20 August 2007\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Christina Hendricks/Actor, \"Joan\":\u003cbr/\u003e\"I guess the question would be more appropriately 'what's it like to step into Joan's girdle?' It is a work out getting into that girdle. I've become pretty good at it, but this thing is crazy, I have garter belt wounds on the top of my thighs, I looked down and I was like 'why do I have two matching...oh it's from my garter belt.' Those things are like armour and it's a little bit of a work out to get into them, but it changes your posture, it changes the way you walk. I've said before, it gives me a whole swagger that I didn't have before and these dresses are like airbrushed on. They certainly make you carry yourself differently and it helps you get into character so quickly, it is really sort of fantastic.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Film clip: \"Mad Men\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment - AP Clients Only \u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 20 August 2007\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Weiner/Executive Producer, on the show's look:\u003cbr/\u003e\"You can present the past either in a completely glamorous way, which is actually much cheaper than what we do, where everything is neat and tidy and everything is from that year. So if you are shooting 1960 you go to Vogue magazine, you go to Architectural Digest and you just fly everything out there that belongs there and everything is from that day and when you start thinking about reality you say 'no,' there is a lot of stuff that is left over, there are antiques, there are people who are dressed from the 50s, the 40s, the 30s just like there are people dressed now from the 90s and the 80s and the 70s.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Film clip: \"Mad Men\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment - AP Clients Only \u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 20 August 2007\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Hamm/Actor, \"Don Draper,\" on \"Don\" being called his star-making role:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I don't know, it's impossible to have any kind of perspective on that. I'm having an amazing time doing the show, it is a great part, it's a great project, it's week in week out great scripts, it's a great opportunity for everyone involved in this, including myself. I am just the most visible part of it and I am happy to be that. It's been really really hard work, but really exciting work and really rewarding work and I'm glad to do it and if it means that good things happen, then that is even better, that's just gravy. It's good stuff.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Film clip: \"Mad Men\"\u003cbr/\u003ePortraying the lives and times of the men, and women, in a 1960 Madison Avenue ad agency, \"Mad Man\" has proven an easy sell to a blast of critics - many of whom have praised the hour long drama as one of the best new TV series of the season. \u003cbr/\u003eJon Hamm plays creative director, Don Draper.  He says in a broader context the show is about American Culture and what makes Americans happy. \u003cbr/\u003eExecutive produced by Matthew Weiner of  \"The Sopranos\" the series offers a look at the swinging cocktail generation, where business people smoked like chimneys and drank like fish -  and often at their desks at work.  \u003cbr/\u003eBut the show isn't passing judgement on those from the era, Weiner told the Associated Press. In fact, he said many of the issues with these mad men remain in the world today but are not as obvious due to political correctness.  \"What I am saying about the period is that it is a lot like now. I think things don't change on some level, that manners have changed and a lot of the human attitudes have gone underground and I am writing about people dealing with the issues in their lives. Socially things are different, they have to keep them more to themselves - you are not allowed to talk about yourself, you're not allowed to share it all out in the open and have a blog and everything, so they are really trying to function. But, it is harsh.\" \u003cbr/\u003eLooks in the era were crisp and tailored, but, as per the series, their lives were an absolute mess. Racism, homophobia and misogyny were rampant -- making the series and its characters often quite hard to swallow. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Of course when you look back on it, you tend to forget all the mistakes that were made or tough parts of society, culture and all of the other things that have wrapped up into that\" said Jon Hamm. \"When you remove that veil, you can look back on it with a much more critical eye and a much clearer vision of what actually happened and you don't have the baggage of having lived through it. You can look at it and say 'you know what? People were racist, they were homophobic, they were horribly anti-semitic, they treated women like property.\"\u003cbr/\u003eJoan, played by Christina Hendricks is the polished secretary at the ad agency. She told AP of the difficulties she has squeezing into her character's outfits. \"Those things are like armour and it's a little bit of a work out to get into them, but it changes your posture, it changes the way you walk.\" She told the AP. \" I've said before, it gives me a whole swagger that I didn't have before and these dresses are like airbrushed on. They certainly make you carry yourself differently and it helps you get into character so quickly, it is really sort of fantastic.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe series has earned raves for its set design, which, as per Weiner, offers a realistic portrait of the period by not only including clothes, fixtures and items of the time, but also earlier periods, as one would likely find in a real 1960 office. \u003cbr/\u003eAccording to Weiner the knack to great set design is to avoid  over glamorising an era. \"You can present the past either in a completely glamorous way, which is actually much cheaper than what we do, where everything is neat and tidy and everything is from that year.\" He said. \"So if you are shooting 1960 you go to Vogue magazine, you go to Architectural Digest and you just fly everything out there that belongs there and everything is from that day and when you start thinking about reality you say 'no,' there is a lot of stuff that is left over, there are antiques, there are people who are dressed from the 50s, the 40s, the 30s just like there are people dressed now from the 90s and the 80s and the 70s.\"\u003cbr/\u003eMany critics also have pointed to work by leading mad man Jon Hamm as \"star making.\"\u003cbr/\u003eJon's response was humble. \"I don't know, it's impossible to have any kind of perspective on that. I'm having an amazing time doing the show, it is a great part, it's a great project, it's week in week out great scripts, it's a great opportunity for everyone involved in this, including myself. I am just the most visible part of it and I am happy to be that. It's been really really hard work, but really exciting work and really rewarding work and I'm glad to do it and if it means that good things happen, then that is even better, that's just gravy. 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