Feature: Mad Men Confidential

Real Mad Men. Real Stories. An inside commentary on the hit show Mad Men sprinkled with a real time view of today’s Ad Biz “hosted” by one of the actual Mad Men, Hank Wasiak. The former Vice Chairman of McCann Erickson and Emmy Award winning interviewer choreographs discussions with the real Mad Men who lived it then and the new Mad Men (and women) living it today. What was that life really like? How realistic, or perhaps not realistic enough, is the life of the ad men portrayed on the show? What do today’s Mad Men think of all this? Mad Men Confidential answers those questions and a lot more. Thought provoking, educational, entertaining, and most of all, true. Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction!

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• The Mad Men Ride Into Tomorrowland

  Here We Come. Ready Or Not.

  Opinion by Hank Wasiak — on Oct 22, 2010

• Don Draper Roars Back

  Lead, Follow Or Get Out Of the Way.

  Opinion by Hank Wasiak — on Oct 14, 2010

• Mad Men: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.

  Roger Despairs. Don Sinks. Peggy Delivers. Pete??

  Opinion by Hank Wasiak — on Oct 07, 2010

• Mad Men: Bad Things Happen In Threes

  Hello DOD. Bye-bye Lucky Strike. Bon voyage, Lane.

  Opinion by Hank Wasiak — on Sep 27, 2010

• Mad Men: A Very Bad Week At The Office

  Death.Discrimination.Defiance.Desire.

  Opinion by Hank Wasiak — on Sep 23, 2010

• Mad Men Women Start To Roar

  Peggy steps up. Joan speaks up. Don cleans up.

  Opinion by Hank Wasiak — on Sep 15, 2010

• Mad Men: Don And Peggy Find Their Sweet Spot

  A championship fight. Work all night. Don and Peggy get "right."

  Opinion by Hank Wasiak — on Sep 06, 2010

• Don Draper's Award Winning Lost Weekend

  Whose idea is it anyway? Don loses it. Peggy bares all.

  Opinion by Hank Wasiak — on Aug 30, 2010

• Mad Men: Let's Party Like It's 1965!

  Don drinks (even more) and Pete pulls a six million dollar rabbit out of the hat.

  Opinion by Hank Wasiak — on Aug 25, 2010

• Don Draper - Master Of Creative Deception

  My accounts are bigger than yours. If you can't outspend them, fool them.

  Opinion by Hank Wasiak — on Aug 23, 2010

• Mad Men 1964: A Magnificent Year

  1965: A year of kinder, gentler Mad Men?

  Opinion by Hank Wasiak — on Aug 09, 2010

• Mad Men Christmas: Reality Bites

  SCDP's Christmas potpourri: A two million dollar present; a party dilemma; a troubled Don Draper.

  Opinion by Hank Wasiak — on Aug 02, 2010

• Starting An Ad Agency the Mad Men Way

  Don Draper, creative director, steps out front and center.

  Opinion by Hank Wasiak — on Jul 27, 2010

• Now It's Time To Hear From The Real Mad Men

  Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

  Opinion by Hank Wasiak — on Nov 24, 2009