Archive for April, 2012

Behind those Mad Men is a pack of woman. In yesterday’s post, I mentioned how Maria Jacquemetton was one of the writer/producers on the Emmy-winning TV series Mad Men. I don’t know what the ratio is this season for Mad Men, but in a 2009 Wall St, Journal article by Amy Chozick she points out that, “Seven [...]

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“Write script after script and never give up.” Maria Jacquemetton Two of the writer/producers on Mad Men is the husband-and-wife team Andre and Maria Jacquemetton.  They’ve both won three Primetime Emmy Awards for their work on Mad Men. I found a Q&A of them and thought you’d find it interesting how they got started in [...]

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My father, Charles W. Smith, was born on April Fools’ Day 1931. He would have been 81 today, but after a career in advertising he didn’t make it to age 65. Last week, I blazed through watching the first season of the Emmy-winning Mad Men—a mere five years after its TV debut. It didn’t take long [...]

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