I saved the best for last! Here is the cast of my favorite show on TV! All the beautiful people from Mad Men!

Pictured: The stunning January Jones (wearing my favorite dress of the night), Christina Hendricks and her boyfriend, Jon Hamm and girlfriend Jennifer Westfeldt, Elizbeth Moss and boyfriend (and SNL funnyman) Fred Armisen,

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The Emmy’s will be held this coming Sunday night, and Oprah will follow the next day, with a Mad Men themed show!  So does this mean that Mad Men is going to sweep the Emmy’s? I sure hope so!  The episode is called “Oprah Goes Back in Time – The 60’s”

Mad Men is by far the best show on TV right now.  Mad Men, the front-runner for the drama series award, also has the advantage of insider buzz, and is set in the media-savvy world of advertising and promotional campaigns. Mad Men leads all drama series with 16 nominations.

From the looks of Oprah Winfrey’s Monday lineup, she appears to be betting that AMC’s “Mad Men” is going to be the big winner again at Sunday nightr’s Emmy Awards telecast on CBS.

Oprah is going totally 1960s Monday including a dress designed for her by Janie Bryant, the Emmy-Award-winning costume designer of the cable drama.

Her guests on Monday will be Jon Hamm and January Jones who play Don and Bettty Draper, the couple at the center of the drama. He’s a Madison Avenue ad agency executive with a troubled sense of identity, and she’s a pregnant mother of two in Connecticut with some real feelings of discontent.

The music will be from the 1960s, and the audience will be encouraged to come in ’60s garb, according to AMC.

It sounds like fun. But what if “Mad Men” has a really bad night at the Emmys? It has happened to great shows before. Well, there is always the Janie Bryant dress.

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The third season premiere of AMC’s Mad Men was a hit with viewers, drawing in an audience that was 4.5 million strong. According to Variety, the rating were so good, AMC has decided to renew the flagship series for a fourth season, which will debut in 2010.

AMC’s Charlie Collier stated, “We always saw the potential for Mad Men. It’s been extremely gratifying to see the show develop in to such a pop-cultural phenomenon with such a passionate fan base.”

Mad Men is currently up for 16 Emmy nominations this year. The series won Best Drama during its first season.

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Mad Men began its third season on AMC Sunday, with Don Draper (Jon Hamm) taking a sexually charged business trip and cavorting with a stewardess (that’s what they called flight attendants in the ’60s.) When he gets back to work, he’s going to face some morally challenging new jobs this year.

“He basically sees what the aerospace industry is turning into,” Hamm said. “It is essentially a war industry and a military defense industry. And he realizes that his job will essentially be selling people on nuclear war. That’s what he’s going to be pitching and I think that lands on a guy like Don. It sits kind of heavy. That turns into, ‘What am I doing with my life? What’s important to me? What am I really doing?’”

A master ad man like Don Draper certainly could sell nuclear war, but as with most issues on Mad Men, the show won’t take the simple way out. “Sure, but I think with anything, you could write a story or something that maybe would be detrimental to a friend of yours or someone you knew or whatever, but you have to go through that process of like, ‘How much of myself am I giving away by doing this?’ And I think that’s basically what Don’s journey to California was. What is important to me? What do I care about? Who am I? And I think at the end of it, he realized what was really important to him was his family and his life that he’s created, literally, out of whole cloth. Of course, he goes back, it’s in a shambles and he has to work to rebuild it, but that’s part of the deal.”

Outside the office, expect to see Draper try to reassemble his broken family. “I think he realizes that going away isn’t the answer all the time. I think what he really needed was to be grounded and to really stay and to really be who he is. I think that’s what he had with Anna. When he went back to Anna Draper and said, ‘Anna, I’m lost. I don’t know what I’m doing. Help me.’ And I think she did.”

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Okay, this gave me goosepimples! I cannot WAIT to watch season 3 of Mad Men!! I re-watched season 1, and I’m almost through re-watching season 2.  It’s so freaking good!!!!

I can’t wait for Mad Men to start again!!!

Despite the Golden Globes, the endless doxologies from critics, and the blandishments from members of its cult who tell you that you of all people would love it because it’s so smart — there’s a chance you haven’t seen Mad Men, which enters its third season this month. And if you haven’t seen Mad Men, then you can’t understand the totality of Christina Hendricks. On the show, she plays a 1960s secretary, her relentless curves tamped into tight dresses and her hair architected into a copper ziggurat. She bosses around the other girls in the office and electrifies the men who run it, just by sashaying down the hall. The pieces that make up her presence — her voice, smooth as the highway; the look in her eyes, sweet or cunning or both; the way she glides around the office, presiding — make her tower over everyone around her, whether she’s wearing heels or not.

Here, in a hotel restaurant in Los Angeles, the elements are the same — the red hair, the pristine, pale swath of skin between her shoulders, the long legs, the doe eyes. But the hair is loose, pinned up in a hurry. There’s a high-pitched laugh. The thirty-four-year-old actress is sitting comfortably in jeans and a loose top, in a private dining room, at a long table that’s set for ten. It’s an odd time to eat — three on a Saturday — but Christina’s day is just beginning. Shooting for Mad Men ran late last night, and she went to bed close to sunrise.

ESQ: Do you like to cook?

CH: I love to cook. I just got a deep fryer, and it’s amazing. The first night we got it, we made homemade poppers. I mean, what’s the best deep-fried thing ever? Cheese poppers.

ESQ: Do you drink while you cook? Watching Mad Men always makes me want to drink.

CH: I love cocktails. My specialty drink is a gimlet with a little egg white in it so it gets frothy. I really like rose water — sometimes I’ll add it to champagne. I was at a bar recently and the manager came up to me and said, “We have a drink named after you!” The Joan Holloway. There was Campari in it. People are throwing these Mad Men — themed parties because, I think, it’s an excuse to get dressed up and drink and smoke.

ESQ: What do you smoke on the set?

CH: Herbal cigarettes. They’re disgusting.

ESQ: Do you wear the undergarments of the day?

CH: Oh, yeah, they’re all the authentic girdles, and we wear the longline bras, with boning.

ESQ: Boning?

CH: It’s like what’s in a corset — it has these long strips of plastic or metal that keep everything [pauses], you know. Oh, yeah — it’s supercomfortable. And then the authentic stockings, with the garters, and then a slip and then our dress. From my girdle and my garters last night, I have two bruises on the top of my legs. From being in it for seventeen hours. Women did that.

ESQ: Why do you think you got the part of the bossy secretary?

CH: Matt Weiner, the creator, had thought of Joan as pinched and tightly wound, but she’s more of a sort of sexual character. I just went in and did the character as I had read her, which was bossy, brassy, everyone-listen-to-me. And then when wardrobe got involved, doing the pilot, I put on this dress, and all of the sudden I had a different walk than I normally had, and Matt turned to me and said, “That’s Joan.” I have my hair brought up a couple inches, and I have heels. I look like an Amazon.

ESQ: But you seem to embrace the fact that you’re not this little waify nothing.

CH: This is the way I’m built, and I feel beautiful. It’s funny, because I don’t feel like I look that different from anybody. Everyone’s always like, “You’re so much smaller in person!”

ESQ: Must be the boning.

CH: And the bras and all that.

ESQ: Even besides Joan, the show drips with sex.

CH: Because there’s something in what you don’t see. There’s restraint. I’ve had people say to me, “My husband and I watch it and we always have sex afterwards.” I think it’s really hot that some of the things it’s stirring up in people are very naughty things.

The waitress asks how everything is and Hendricks is honest. She says the noodles are overcooked. While blinking.

CH: I have this habit of, when they ask me if it was good, I tell them when it’s not.

ESQ: I think they’d want to know.

CH: I don’t mean to cause a ruckus. They’re probably saying “God, that girl from Mad Men is so fussy.”

ESQ: Are you a ruckus-causer?

CH: I have a problem keeping my mouth shut. I usually speak my mind. I’m trying to learn my lesson.

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Remember – Mad Men season 3 premieres August 16th, at 10:00 on AMC! (more…)