Rolling Stone's special television issue puts the spotlight on the Best Drama Emmy-winner for the past three years, AMC's "Mad Men." The issue takes a look at the upcoming fall television season, but the gang from Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce get top billing. You have to be an All Access member to read the full article online (there's an excerpt here), or you could pick up a copy at the newstand.

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The new issue of Rolling Stone magazine will feature a story on the HBO hit "True Blood" and the joy of vampire sex.

"True Blood" creator Alan Ball says in the article that vampires are sex, and taking a swipe at the "Twilight" phenomenon, adds, "I don't get a vampire story about abstinence."

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On this installment of the Condition, I speak to Michael Sragow, film critic for the Baltimore Sun and a veteran of the film-reviewing frontlines. We discuss his days working for Rolling Stone (he drops a pitiful-but-hilarious story involving "E.T." that explains why that magazine is always the last to pick up on what people are talking about) as well as the work of the late filmmaker Victor Fleming, who is the subject of a recently-released autobiography Sragow has written. (BTW, all you Triangle residents can catch one of the movies he's famous for at the end of the month.) We end the podcast talking about the cinematic legacies of Budd Schulberg and John Hughes, who both passed away last week. You can also download it here.

FRIDAY: Me and another film writer bond over drunken podcasts, "G.I. Joe" and Jean-Claude Van Damme. I also talk about a rash — seriously.