Rainbow: No Don Draper in today's ad world

For the first year that I worked in advertising, whenever I told people what I did for a living, they'd nod their heads and say, “Oh yeah, right. Like Darrin on ‘Bewitched.' ”

Or occasionally, “Oh yeah, right. Like the dad on ‘The Brady Bunch.' ”

In both cases, I'd just nod my head. Advertising, architecture ... Potato, potahto.

But after the summer of 2007, all anyone wanted to talk about was “Mad Men.” Fortunately, that's all I wanted to talk about, too. (Sixties fashion and design, plus awesome writing, plus advertising? Deal me in.)

But instead of saying, “Just like ‘Mad Men,' right?' ” they'd say, “I'll bet it's nothing like ‘Mad Men.' ”

“Actually,” I'd find myself saying, “you'd be surprised ...”

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