Click for the pic.Mattel plans to bring out versions of Barbie and Ken styled after four “Mad Men” characters. . . .
The characters to become dolls are Don Draper, the show’s leading man; his wife, Betty; his colleague at the Sterling Cooper agency, Roger Sterling; and Joan Holloway, the agency’s office manager who was Roger’s mistress.
That two dolls represent a relationship outside wedlock, and Don Draper’s propensity for adultery, may be firsts for the Barbie world since the brand’s introduction five decades ago. But for the sake of the Barbie image, her immersion in the “Mad Men” era will go only so far: The dolls come with period accessories like hats, overcoats, pearls and padded undergarments, but no cigarettes, ashtrays, martini glasses or cocktail shakers.
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“I grew up with two older sisters and lots of Barbies in the house,” he recalled, including “a doll named Midge,” a pal of Barbie’s.
In retrospect said Mr. Weiner, she may be the inspiration for the character Midge Daniels.
That's something you don't hear most guys owning up to every day.
Heh. I remember Midge well.
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Belvedere is here? He of the infamous "Cleavage Wars"?
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