Feeling nostalgic for the casual sexism, rampant racism, frequent drinking, and constant haze of tobacco smoke of the early 1960s? The show that launched a thousand boring Halloween costumes (guys, wearing a suit with a pocket square does not make you Don Draper) and follows the lives of advertising execs in the ‘60s hits DVD this week. It's the perfect time to practice your "flu" voice for when you call in sick to work so you can marathon watch Season Three and try to drink scotch and look manly without wincing.
Season 3 of
Mad Men comes out on DVD Tuesday, March 23.
Juicy interviews are hitting newsstands as the month comes to a close. Demi Moore graces the April issue of Harper's Bazaar, revealing her preference for the "
puma" label over "cougar," telling the magazine, "It has a sweeter quality, more elegant." But if your taste leans more toward Shia LaBeouf, the
Wall Street 2 actor is featured on next month's GQ. Alongside Rielle Hunter's risqué photos and equally revealing interview, the magazine also asks LaBeouf, whose favorite word may be "dude," about his infamous 2008 car crash. "Every once in a while Kim Kardashian's sister would jump on TV and preach to me from the red carpet about
how to live my f*****g life," he said. And Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen is on April's Vogue cover, discussing a scuffle with husband Tom Brady over their new baby's name. "My husband said, ‘There's no way we're going to
call him River.'" The couple settled on Benjamin Rein.
GQ hits newsstands March 23, Vogue lands March 23, and Harper's Bazaar is available March 30
Another revival is sneaking onto Broadway this week starring
Wicked's Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth and former
Will & Grace star Sean Hayes. The two Emmy winners have paired up for
Promises, Promises, based on Billy Wilder's classic film
The Apartment. The dark musical comedy tells the story of insurance employee Chuck Baxter (Hayes) who falls for his boss' mistress (Chenoweth) through songs by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and a book by Neil Simon. "I think we all feel the pressure of wanting to do a
good job," Hayes told Time Out New York of the revival, which had its first Broadway production in 1968 with Jerry Orbach and Jill O'Hara in the leads. The show is set in the same period made famous by
Mad Men, but Hayes isn't worried it's outdated. "We're very much playing real people in a real world. We're not caricatures," he said.
Previews for
Promises, Promises begin at the Broadway Theatre in New York on Sunday, March 28. Opening night is Sunday, April 25
With the help of Ol' Blue Eyes himself, acclaimed choreographer Twyla Tharp is introducing Broadway audiences to four couples falling in and out of love to the music of Frank Sinatra this week. A live onstage 19-piece band fills the crowded nightclub setting as well as 15 of the world's best dancers, long under Tharp's expert guidance, who float on stage to his most memorable songs, such as "Fly Me to the Moon" and "I've Got the World On a String." In an age of
Dancing With the Stars and
So You Think You Can Dance, Tharp is bringing the medium back to the masses with a classic twist, particularly with "My Way," which the choreographer tells The Times is the most meaningful number for her. "It's very touching, and it's very much at the
heart of what dance is," she told the paper. "There is nobody else who can revisit the past and only find youth."
Come Fly Away opens at Broadway's Marquis Theatre in New York on Wednesday, March 25
So many questions: There is a musical, like, a real-life, actually-on-Broadway musical, based on the music of…Green Day? Said musical is
actually getting OK reviews? Is there actually an audience for a Green Day musical? Is it an elaborate practical joke? Is the pop-punk band selling out to make a musical? Or is it actually the most punk thing Green Day has ever done?
Previews for American Idiot, based on the music of Green Day, start on Wednesday, March 24 at the St. James Theatre in New York City.
Downgrading from her high fashion pieces favored by A-listers, fashion designer Stella McCartney is returning to mass market level—and even tinier models—by launching her second line of clothing for GapKids this week. McCartney's first collection proved so popular that even French First Lady Carla Bruni wore one of its designs (the sold-out Miller jacket) during a TV appearance. For the spring season, McCartney brought bright blues, oranges, and greens to her preppy-inspired sweaters, jackets, onesies, and dresses. But, much like Bruni, slim adults have their eyes on getting the acclaimed designer's looks at a lower price—many women can squeeze into a kid's size XL. At a launch party for the collection in London, McCartney told Women's Wear Daily, "I definitely
like kids' parties better than adult ones… And sugar highs are definitely better to be around than other kinds of highs!"
Stella McCartney's spring
GapKids collection hits U.S. stores Wednesday, March 25
Whether you'd like to buy art in a sort of one-stop-shopping situation, or just look like you're vaguely cultured, there is one destination that can satisfy all of those desires: Artexpo New York. Held at Pier 94 on the Hudson, the huge fine art trade show showcasing prints, paintings, drawings, sculpture and more can be overwhelming, so we suggest you walk around nodding slightly and murmuring words like "transgressive," "discourse," "overdetermined" "problematize," and, of course, "deconstruction."
Artexpo New York starts on Thursday, March 25 in New York City
Known as Asia's fashion Mecca, Tokyo will host its 10th bi-annual Living Room Trade Show, which featured nearly 300 domestic and international brands over the last decade. Since its first show in 2000, Living Room has opened each fashion season in Japan's capital city, bringing together fresh young designers, journalists, and fashion experts in multiple booths, allowing for creative ideas to flow from all angles. The best of Tokyo's Fall/Winter collections showcased at this sold-out event will attract nearly 5,000 buyers and 1,000 Japanese journalists to see what the 50 exhibitors, like Motonari Ono and Hisui, have to offer.
Livingroom Trade Show runs from Tuesday, March 23 to Thursday, March 25 in Tokyo's Roppongi Hills
If
Mad Men isn't giving you your weekly hard-boiled leading men fix, or if you'd like to look literate on the subway, there's always Walter Mosley's
Known to Evil and its hard-living private eye protagonist Leonid McGill. And don't forget that Mosley, the author of
The Long Fall, is Bill Clinton's favorite author, possibly making this the most presidential book to feature a Russian prostitute and a character named "Bug."
Walter Mosley's
Known to Evil
hits bookstores Tuesday, March 23
Satirist Christopher Moore completes his darkly comic Jody trilogy with
Bite Me, which follows his books
Bloodsucking Fiends and (what else would it be called?)
You Suck in tracing the story of a redheaded vampire named Jody and her boyfriend Tommy. A trilogy… about vampires? No, that'll never sell.
Bite Me: A Love Story
hits bookstores Tuesday, March 23
How excited can one get about two middle-aged men fighting each other?
Very excited. Bret "Hitman" Hart—now 52—is back, and he's taking on Vince McMahon—age 64—in a no-holds-barred match that could allow Hart to get revenge on McMahon for the infamous "
Montreal Screwjob." It's not the top match that night—Chris Jericho and the Edge are duking it out for World Heavyweight Championship—but for wrestling fans who grew up on Hart, it's the only one that matters.
WrestleMania XXVI will premiere live on pay-per-view Sunday, March 28 at 7 p.m. ET, 4 p.m. PT
