“Mad Men” just ended. The big news is that Bob Benson was revealed, I won’t say how yet. Suffice to say that thanks to Duck, checking for Pete on Bob’s background, Pete is back. Bob will be Pete’s bucket boy now, which should be interesting. Meanwhile, Sally wants to go to boarding school and has an interview–with overnight stay–at Miss Porter’s. Her line, “My father has never done anything for me,” will live in infamy. Sally may turn out to be Don’s greatest enemy.

Elsewhere, the “Rosemary’s Baby” commercial doesn’t sound like such a great idea for St. Joseph’s aspirin for children. But it did draw more out of the Peggy-Ted relationship. The pause in the room when Don said Ted’s reasons for the commercial were personal– the longest pause in recent TV history. Who didn’t worry about what Don was going to say?

Was Don home watching reruns of “The Patty Duke Show” during the day? It was long off the air by 1968 as a first run show.

And then: Ken getting shot by the Chevy execs during the first segment was also a little mini soap opera, but cleverly done. Joan imitating the old Jewish lady for the commercial pitch was hilarious.

There are so many loose strands to tie up. It’s hard to believe next week is the last episode of the penultimate season. Can 14 episodes more after that really bring “Mad Men” to a satisfactory close?  And can we wait until next March? Painful.

UPDATE: Monday will see a big debate about Jay Z’s announced forthcoming album– and Samsung’s giveaway of 1 million copies to their customers. Samsung bought 1 million copies for $5 each and they’re going to give them away to their customers. Cheapo copies tied to promotions have caused a brouahaha in the record biz. When Lady Gaga sold hundreds of thousands of “Born this Way” CDs through Amazon for 99 cents, new rules were put in place. The minimum sale price has to be $3.49. Madonna sold a bunch of her last album by attaching it to ticket sales. It dropped 70% in its second week. Jay Z’s “Magna Carta Holy Grail” will register 1 million copies all at once through Samsung devices. But then what? And how will SoundScan react to such a deal when other albums that week will sell for twice that much? And how is it no one from DefJam has mentioned this album coming in between releases from Kanye West and Mariah Carey this summer?

EARLIER: Kanye West’s “Yeezus” is coming on Tuesday. But now we hear a couple of weeks more will bring Jay Z’s “Magna Carta Holy Grail.” As with “Yeezus,” the Jay Z album is produced or prepared by Rick Rubin. You’ll see him in the video below. Weird– at Sony, Rubin did nothing. Now he’s quarterbacking the hip hop releases at Island DefJam. And it looks like he leaves his house for the studio. In between Kanye and Jay Z, Def Jam releases Mariah Carey’s new album. What a summer!

By the way, Jay Z has a unique merchandising deal with Samsung. Score one for the Korean electronics giant. This is why the Galaxy and Note lines have gained so much against Apple. They know cool.

Samsung will give away 1 million copies of Magna Carta to fans who download their Jay Z app. Samsung paid $5 for the albums. Should SoundScan count those as sales? The lowest amount an album can sell for and be counted is $3.49 after the big Lady Gaga-amazon debacle.

UPDATE 6:45PM pacific: Jermaine Jackson just showed up. The wedding was set for 5pm. He missed it.

Earlier: You have to love the Jackson family. Michael Jackson had them pegged that’s for sure. They show unity only when money is involved. Reports are coming in from Tito Jackson’s son’s wedding. T.J., one of the 3Ts and brother to Michael’s kids’ co guardian Taj, just got married in Encino at the family home. Janet Jackson, brothers Jermaine, Randy, and Jackie all skipped the wedding. Katherine and Joseph are there, with Prince and Blanket. Paris Jackson, as I reported earlier, did not attend. LaToya and Rebbie are there. LaToya’s probably filming for her reality show.

keep refreshing for updates…to see if the absentees show up for the reception…

KEEP REFRESHING: “Star Wars: Clone Wars” just won a Daytime Emmy for animation. George Lucas and Carrie Fisher are there. No surprise. So they knew. Carrie just stole the show by zetzing Ozzy Osbourne about dropping acid, that they had the same dealer etc…

George Lucas is there. He’s making an acceptance speech.

Earlier: “Dr. Oz” just won Best Talk Show–Informative, and beat Katie Couric. But the presentation was a near mis-hap saved thanks to Aisha Tyler. She opened the envelope with the women from “The Talk” and discovered she had the winner from a different category. Quick thinking saved the day. “There’d better be a drink waiting for me at my table,” said Aisha who also seems to be a foot taller than her co-hosts.

Best Actor in a soap opera: Doug Davidson, from “The Young and the Restless,” who’s been on the show since Ronald Reagan was president. Supporting Actor: a tie– Scott Clifton from “The Bold and the Beautiful” and Billy Miller from “The Young and the Restless.” The latter gave a nice shout out to the late Jeanne Cooper…

PS This is a strange show. Les Moonves, whenever they cut to him, looks a little bewildered….

Keep refreshing…

Monty Hall is getting a Lifetime Achievement Award. The former “Let’s Make a Deal” host is 91 years young. His daughter is famed actress Joanna Gleason. He’s a very nice guy…But is this show directed by anyone? it’s one mistake after another…

BEST GAME SHOW: The Price is Right…

Best Writing, Soap Opera: “The Bold and the Beautiful” — a basically unwatchable TV show. They killed off Susan Flannery’s character, and that got them the award. Otherwise, the show is like a parody of a soap. But it’s written by its producer, Bradley Bell, son of the late William Bell. The Bells are big financial supporters of the Obamas and the Democratic Party. They know from soap opera.

Best Supporting Actress, Soap Opera: Julie Marie Berman, “General Hospital”

You gotta love this show. The audience talks right through the whole thing, and the producers don’t cut the overhead mics…So weird…

Best Actress, Soap Opera: Heather Tom, “The Bold and the Beautiful.”

Corbin Bernsen just dropped an F bomb and said “Shit.” No censors on HLN. His mother, Jeanne Cooper, would be proud apparently…Luckily someone remembered Al Freeman, Jr….

Best Younger Actress, Soap Opera: Kristen Alderson, who’s been on “One Life to Live” since she was a child and is now “General Hospital”

Best Talk show: Ellen De Generes

Best Directing, Soap Opera: “The Bold and the Beautiful.” Now Les Moonves is happy.

Best Soap Opera: went to “Days of our Lives” even though it wasn’t the best written or best directed and didn’t have a lead best actor or actress.

Best Talk Show host was Ricki Lake, whose show was cancelled.

Queen Elizabeth’s birthday awards this weekend went to a varied bunch. Ten time Oscar nominee Roger Deakins, a master cinematographer, was knighted with Commander of the British Empire. How is it Deakins has never won an Oscar? This last year, he was nominated for “Skyfall.” Well, the Queen has made it up to him. Now Joel and Ethan Coen will have to call him Sir Roger. (I’ve asked them to call me that but they don’t!)

Also on the Queen’s list: “Hollywood Wives” novelist Jackie Collins, who is just about the most fun person on the West Coast from the British Isles, got an OBE. So did Adele, who didn’t have to wait very long, and singer-songwriter P.J. Harvey.

Sculptor Anish Kapoor, fine artist Albert Irvin, actors Claire Bloom, Rowan Atkinson, and Julian Glover, and producer-director Michael John Attenborough, “Gandhi” director Richard–and also director of the famed Almeida Theater– were also cited by the Queen.

Joan Collins received her own OBE in 1997. Reports today she immediately sent congrats to Jackie. The sisters are very close, are probably among the few siblings with Queen’s awards. Not bad!

I know the tabs and TMZ and Randy Jackson will be disappointed, but Paris Jackson will not be attending a family wedding in Encino this weekend. Paris’s cousin Taj Jackson is getting married at the Jacksons’ now abandoned former HQ, the Havenhurst house in Encino owned by Michael Jackson’s estate. But Paris is staying at UCLA Medical Center where she is undoubtedly getting some needed rest and learning how to deal with life in a complex world. I keep reading crazy stories and posts either in TMZ or the New York Post that are far, far from the mark. But there’s a fine line here dealing with a 15 year old, her mother, and their family. While it might be great to drive traffic off this story, it also might be more prudent to let this kid alone. I’m still not sure why Katherine Jackson or guardian TJ haven’t pulled down Paris’s Twitter account. PS Mrs. Jackson, Prince, and Blanket will attend.

MONDAY 12AM: The worldwide total is $197 mil all in since Thursday. Hats off to Warner Bros. They did it.

SUNDAY 12:30PM update: “Man of Steel” did $113 mil estimated Fri-Sun, plus $12mil from Thurs. Add another $25 mil foreign. There will indeed be a sequel, perhaps next time with a third act.

EARLIER The Superman reboot “Man of Steel” took in $44 million on Friday according to boxofficemojo.com. That includes $9 million from midnight showings, which means it did a solid $35 mil on Friday night. The total is now $56 million including $12 mil on Thursday night from WalMart screenings.

But the $44 mil makes it the 20th biggest Friday opening, maybe the biggest ever for Flag Day, and maybe the biggest ever for a second Friday in June following a Thursday with a lot of rain.

Warner Bros. tied “Man of Steel” to every product they could think of including razor blades and the Sears catalog. They’re going to have a $120-$140 mil weekend in the US, and much more abroad where the mind numbing aspects of Zack Snyder’s film won’t be so obvious in other languages.

Mixed to bad reviews didn’t harm the bottom line. But next weekend, “World War Z” appears, and will take a lot of the wind from Superman’s cape. The families of the creators of “Superman” must be very proud. But of course, thanks to many lawsuits, they get just about nothing out of this other than pride.

Smokey Robinson is a gem. At Thursday night’s star studded Songwriters Hall of Fame dinner he toasted Motown founder Berry Gordy with an acapella song he wrote for the occasion– and this despite, he said, having just gotten over a case of swollen vocal chords. Here’s the exclusive video:

Smokey is one of my favorite people of all time, and famous for writing three minute hits.

But he can talk. And talk he did on Thursday night. Gordy was getting a lifetime achievement award for creating Motown, and cast members from “Motown: The Musical” were waiting in the wings to perform a bunch of Motown hits after finishing their evening performance across the street.

That didn’t daunt Smokey, who is startlingly poised on stage as a speaker (he used to host the Rhythm and Blues Foundation’s Pioneer Awards with a of panache). He told, in painstaking detail, the story of how as a 16 year old he and the early Miracles– called the Matadors-auditioned songs for the legendary Jackie Wilson in Detroit.

“Instead of singing current songs, we sang five original ones that I wrote,” Smokey recalled. “He didn’t like any of them.”

After being rejected, Smokey saw a kid a couple of years older than himself hanging around. It was young Gordy, who’d written “Reet Petite” and other hits for Wilson. They struck up a conversation, and Gordy, Smokey says, looked over his songs, “He liked them, but he said, You know you have five or six songs in every one. A song has to have a beginning, a middle and an end. At the time, I was very good at rhyming. I could rhyme anything from an early age. So the first verse was all set up and rhymed well. The second had nothing to do with it. It was another song. But it was also rhymed up really well.”

The rest is history of course. Smokey went on to have dozens of hits, including Motown’s standard bearer, “My Girl.” And at least the story did have an end. But god bless Smokey. The guy running the Teleprompter kept sending him signals to wrap it up. But you don’t cut off Smokey Robinson.