Showing posts with label Jon Hamm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jon Hamm. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Kim Kardashian on Jon Hamm calling her 'stupid'

Jon Hamm © Enrique RC/Pacific Coast News 
Recently Mad Men's Jon Hamm shared his thoughts on the US with Elle UK. Jon said that "stupidy is certainly celebrated" and that stupidity is "a valuable commodity in this culture, because you're rewarded significantly." This is when he talked about Kim and Paris Hilton calling them "[peep] stupid".

Now Kim has taken to Twitter: "We're all working hard and we all have to respect one another. Calling someone who runs their own businesses, is a part of a successful TV show, produces, writes, designs, and creates, 'stupid,' is in my opinion careless." 


Thursday, March 10, 2011

Perfection

Hamm On Wry

Mad Men seems to have replaced Six Feet Under as my all-time favorite TV series. I pretty much love every element of the show, but what holds the thing together for me is Jon Hamm’s work as mercurial advertising exec, Don Draper, with his gallant good looks, world weary wit, shadowy past, & slow stewing swirl of esoteric existential tumult. Mad Men is set in early 1960s-before the revolutions of feminism, civil rights, & sexual liberation. Draper is the embodiment of that mid-century American Dream. He looks the way movie stars used to look, smokes the way people used to smoke, contemplates life the way men used to contemplate it, & Mad Men feels like nothing else I have ever seen on TV.




Hamm was born in Missouri 40 years ago today. Before Mad Men he enjoyed a decade's worth of walk-ons, pilots, & multi-episode arcs.


I found season 4 to be the best & the most compelling so far. I am looking forward to pouring a whiskey & settling in for Season 5 this summer. The things I can count on with certainty is that cigarettes will be smoked, office sex will be had, cocktails will be drunk, & changing social mores will be unpeeled. Until then, I will close my eyes & imagine what it would be like to be Jon Hamm.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Don Draper Says- "WHAT"



* foot note: Jon Hamm is not at all like his character on Mad Men, & he is one of the most imaginative lovers I have ever had. He didn't even wince when I requested- "Give it to me like Don Draper. What?"

Friday, July 17, 2009

More On The Emmy Noms





I feel that Mad Men (season 3 starts on August 16th) is the best show on television & possibly my favorite show ever (sorry, Six Feet Under). I was happy to see this landmark AMC show be honored with 16 nominations including an especially well deserved one for Elizabeth Moss as Peggy Olson- the most complex character on TV, & for yummy Jon Hamm for his enigmatic character Don Drapper & for taking his shirt off on the series. Mad Men received 4 of the 5 nominations for writing.

30 Rock is my favorite current comedy series & the show received 22 Emmy nominations, the most ever for a comedy series. I feel that producer, writer & star- Tina Fey is a comic genius & the Husband & I LOVE this show. Also nominated are Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski , Jack McBrayer as Kenneth the page, & I am so happy: Elaine Stritch, Alan Alada, Jennifer Aniston, Steve Martin & amazing- Jon Hamm again! Also good news: noms for Kathy Griffin, Neil Patrick Harris as host & nominee, & for Farrah with the nomination for the documentry about her battle with cancer.

Q.- What goes really well with Hamm?
A.- A big side of Stephen.