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"FacebookPinterest\n\nWhen a plaid suit is done right\u2014with subtle, shadowy patterns and a slim cut\u2014it grabs the eye without screaming for attention. Here, John Slattery of Mad Men gets down to business in the best of them.\n\nthe climber\n\n John Slattery\u2014actor in just about everything\u2014finally rises through the ranks in Mad Men\n\nVeteran TV actor John Slattery spent last year dividing his time between two very different shows about the American id: Mad Men and Desperate Housewives. One pays well, but the other is the revelation. In AMC\u2019s Mad Men, set in a 1960s Madison Avenue ad agency, vodka-and-milk passes for breakfast, secretaries take all the wrong kinds of dictation, and the happiness-for-sale modern era is forged. Slattery is Roger Sterling, an aloofly confident boss (\u201CMy name\u2019s on the building,\u201D he says) with a taste for everything under the sun\u2014except family. As Slattery plays him, you\u2019d love to have a drink (or seven) with the guy. Slattery explains how he pulls it all off.\n\n\u2022 On simultaneous roles in Mad Men and Desperate Housewives: \u201CI had just bought a house. The Housewives producers said, \u2018Do you want to do a year on the show?\u2019 The men don\u2019t get as much interesting material as the women, but it\u2019s watched by, what, 20 million people a week? I had a good year.\u201D\n\n\u2022 On the fate of his Mad Men character, Roger Sterling: \u201CThe last time you see Roger in season one, he has his second heart attack. I said to [creator] Matt Weiner, \u2018What the hell?\u2019 He said, \u2018Don\u2019t worry. My uncle had six heart attacks.\u2019 I was like, \u2018Okay, right. Fantastic.\u2019 \u201D\n\n\u2022 On the Mad Men set: \u201CIt\u2019s a lot of props: You\u2019re doing dialogue while lighting cigarettes, dealing with the clothes, pouring drinks\u2026 But my sister could roll a joint while driving a Volkswagen Bug, so I thought, Hell, I can do this.\u201D\n\n\u2022 On playing a politician with a urine fetish on (yes) Sex and the City: \u201CSex and the City probably has a lot of alumni with erectile dysfunction or latex fetishes or whatever. We should all compare notes.\u201D"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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