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Sheen Serves Up More Baloney

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Charlie Sheen’s talk-show-host debut, Charlie’s Korner, was good and forgettable, but one thing stuck in our mind: Blump’s Squeezeable Bacon. Sheen mentioned the show’s supposed sponsor in passing along with tiger blood, but is it real? The short answer: No.

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Feeding up your Mad Men

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Don Draper was never hungry for food as he told his wife Betty in one of the earliest episodes. *Blush*. Guessing this cook book will contain plenty of Baked Alaska, Steak Diane and instructions which only make sense after eight tumblers of Canadian Rye Whiskey.

Set aside the $1.99 you were going to spend on that Mad Men cocktail app and save it for the cookbook. News of the deal comes from the subscribers’ section of Publishers Marketplace: “Judy Gelman and Peter Zheutlin's The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook, a guide to the food and drink mentioned in the show from Sterling Cooper power lunches to Betty's Around the World Dinner; also offering suggestions for Mad Men-themed parties and entertaining with style, with every detail true to the period and themes of the show, [has been sold] to Leah Wilson at BenBella Books, for publication in Winter 2112.”

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