Camelot to Woodstock to Facebook: From mum's the word to tell everything

August 23, 2009 There is a telling scene in the Season 3 opener of "Mad Men" in which ad man Don Draper, climbing down a hotel's fire escape in the middle of the night past the bedroom window of his colleague Salvatore Romano, catches a glimpse of him -- and a male bellhop. Certainly, the caterwauling, social climbing and conniving among the characters on the show are recognizable foibles and just as prevalent today as then, but the lengths to which they go to hide their sins or disguise their slip-ups definitely has been foreshortened. [...] much still was hush-hush in Camelot -- having a child out of wedlock, dealing with senile parents, functioning as a homosexual; all manner of behavior had to be kept under wraps or denied if one hoped to get ahead or maintain one's sanity.

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