Toby Jones's portrayal is a lovely, very human, performance" "Continuous invention and surprise, excellence of cast and script, and mad attention paid to both sound and light".
"It's keeping ourselves entertained, we've got quite mad attention spans, so it's a very subconscious drive to improve what we do all the time, to change what we do and challenge ourselves to make interesting music".
"Well," she says, "the reaction is fairly split between people who think you're just a mad, attention-seeking nutcase, and the people who come up and say 'go for it'.
Mad, Mad Marketing If team names and logos can embody the worldview of a league, the XFL introduced eight yesterday that described a venture screaming for attention.
During the remarkable bloom of technology and telecommunications stocks, growth investors were geniuses and value investors were the financial world's street corner Bible thumpers, begging a world gone mad to pay attention.
By pulling us away from Twitter, texts, e-mails, pointless videos and all the other technological distractions demanding attention, "Homeland," "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad" provide a coherent (albeit sometimes disturbing) refuge from our fragmented lives.
It's this latter strand that will be celebrated at the Smithsonian: Mad Men's formidable attention to detail and its ability to stimulate nostalgia for a time few people remember.
The bar has been lowered so violently, in fact, that you can now adequately Paxo someone by waving a cup at them while honking a series of incomprehensible almost-thoughts like a toddler driven mad by lack of attention.
The culture wars are raging as savagely as ever and the conservative side, if not triumphant, is more than holding its own.The latest conservative champion is a semi-Australian actor who first captured public attention as Mad Max, a "road warrior" struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.
One ad asks, "Want to stay on Mad Ave after 'Mad Men' ends?" Authors of nonfiction looks at the industry in the "Mad Men" era are also hoping to gain attention, among them Andrew Cracknell, who wrote "The Real Mad Men: The Renegades of Madison Avenue and the Golden Age of Advertising," and Jane Maas, who wrote "Mad Women: The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the '60s and Beyond".
Mad old woman?" No, attention-seeking.
