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‘Mad’ over Le Cirque snafu

The creator of “Mad Men” discussed his show’s recent gaffe of including a reference to Le Cirque, which opened years after the show’s 1968 setting, at a Paley Center for Media panel Tuesday. Moderator Brian Williams pulled out a New York Post piece about the scene in which Christina Hendricks’ character references the famous eatery opened in 1974 by Sirio Maccioni. At first, the series’ creator, Matthew Weiner, blamed the absent actress Hendricks by telling the crowd she had “ad-libbed” the line. But he then admitted, “No, it was a terrible error,” adding of the fascination over the flub, “I think the pleasure some people get from the mistake makes more entertainment for the show.” Weiner freely admitted another of his show’s out-of-time references: An April 21 nod to sitcom “30 Rock” when a “Mad Men” character orders an “Old Spanish,” a fictitious drink from the Tina Fey sitcom on which Jon Hamm and John Slattery guest-starred.