Tag: Jon Hamm (81-90 of 123)

Aug 25 2010 01:00 PM ET

Jimmy Fallon wants YOU to write his Emmy script

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jimmy-fallon-emmy-awardsImage Credit: Virginia Sherwood/NBCEventually you can just write all the TV shows, too! And movies! What a fun, sexy time for everyone. 2010 Emmys host Jimmy Fallon needs intros for 15 of the celebrity presenters on Sunday’s NBC telecast. Here’s the complete list of presenters. If yours is chosen, he’ll say your Twitter handle out loud! This could also be a good opportunity to come up with ridiculous Twitter handles.

Fallon told the Associated Press that “Blahblahblah says Jon Hamm is the hottest guy of all time. Here he is — Jon Hamm” is an example of a tweet he’d read on national TV. You can surely beat that. Here, I’ll start. “He’s toasted! Jon Hamm. #imontheemmys.” Again, you can do better.

If Twitter suddenly tidal waves from all the excitement, NBC could just scrap the whole outsourcing idea altogether and go with original musical intros. Tina Fey would get Bob Seger to record “Night Cheese,” Joel McHale would get a zippy Richard X remix of “Donka Doo Ball,” and so on. There is totally enough time for that.

Read more:
EW.com’s 2010 Emmys Central

Annie on Twitter: @EWAnnieBarrett

Aug 16 2010 02:00 PM ET

Lunchtime Poll: Peggy spying on Don in 'Mad Men'

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Peggy Olson spying on Don Draper through the glass partition was my favorite moment of last night’s Mad Men and quite possibly the greatest hidden gem of the series so far. I found it so inspiring that I’m doing the same thing to Ausiello right now, and our offices don’t even have glass sections below the ceiling! All you really need is a power drill and one good eye.

Read more:
‘Mad Men’ recap: Pairs, pears, and despair
All Lunchtime Polls on PopWatch

Annie on Twitter: @EWAnnieBarrett

Aug 1 2010 04:23 AM ET

Countdown To 'Mad Men:' Four Fearless Predictions About Season 4! Plus: The Don-Betty-'Moonlighting' Connection!

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For the past several months, the following question has come my way on an almost daily basis: “What are you going to do now that Lost is over?” Usually, this inquiry is accompanied by a look of grave concern in the eyes of the inquirer, as if they’re beholding a man who has lost his reason for living and should be kept far away from razor blades. Please! Don’t be fooled by my frazzled hair and emaciated frame and the fact that I burst into tears anytime anyone even mentions the word Lost. I’m fine! Really! I AM GOING TO BE OKAY! Okay? Just don’t come near me with your YouTube videos of Jack Shephard’s death march across The Island…

Oh, no…

Don’t you DARE–

Great. Now I’m a blubbery mess. Sigh. Vincent. They had to play the dog card, didn’t they?

Seriously, even though I have spent the past six years writing pretty extensively about Lost, I have been watching other television shows, as well. In fact, my post-Lost angst has been greatly assuaged by the arrival of my other favorite drama: Mad Men. Since discovering the series prior to the start of its second season in 2008, I’ve been pretty obsessed with Matthew Weiner’s acclaimed period drama about Madison Avenue advertising professionals in the 1960s. The fascinating knit of character, culture, and history even gets my theory-making brain going in the same way that Lost did. And so, as I continue to search for a shiny new cult pop bauble to get all Gollum and preciousssss about (Rubicon? The Event? The Walking Dead?), I’ll be geeking out on Mad Men. We begin with four fearless predictions about the fourth season, inspired by the events of last week’s season premiere. (Actually, I originally came up with five predictions, but one of them—Don will rehire Sal, and soon—morphed into a 3000 word essay about something else altogether; I’ll share that with you next week.)

Before we begin, please know: I do not expose myself to Mad Men spoilers, and I don’t watch episodes in advance. None of what follows is based on any kind of foreknowledge of upcoming events. So if I’m right, it’s pure dumb luck. And if I’m wrong? Pure dumb.

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Jul 28 2010 02:40 PM ET

'Mad Men' video: Every cigarette ever smoked on the show

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Warning: the video embedded after the jump could give you cancer. JK! On the heels of previous fan-made Mad Men videos — pick-up lines, Betty’s awful parenting, and drinking — comes the latest: a montage that claims to show every cigarette smoked on the show. Fittingly, the video kicks off with Roger and Don talking shop, which leads to Roger waxing nostalgic on the knee-weakening experience of smoking your first cigarette. The video captures how glamorous tobacco seemed in the Mad Men age, but it doesn’t shy away from making fun of how gross and dangerous a habit it is: Witness the clever inclusion of characters’ hacking away with smoker’s coughs. (Ewwww!) It’s a terrific video, even if it’s not all it claims to be. It can’t possibly have captured every single instance of puffing because there isn’t a single shot of Betty’s neighbor Francine smoking while pregnant. Still, watch, enjoy, and say hello to Cheech! READ FULL STORY »

Jul 25 2010 01:03 PM ET

'Mad Men': Your season 4 premiere wish list?

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mad-men-season-3-finaleImage Credit: AMCIn honor of Mad Men’s fourth season (FINALLY) debuting tonight, let’s all name the four things we’d most like to see in tonight’s premiere.

1. Casual Friday implemented at the new Sterling-Cooper-Draper-Pryce so we can feast on at least one gratuitous shot of Don Draper in leisurewear
2. At least a passing reference to dearly departed Sal
3. Sally Draper threatens to burn training bra; Betty makes proper use of Victorian fainting couch
4. Many more than two scoops of Joan, the real brains behind the operation

After the jump, a few Mad Men-themed internet gems that could help as you meditate on the emergency of having nothing to do until 10/9c tonight. READ FULL STORY »

Jul 15 2010 12:25 PM ET

'Howl' trailer: James Franco, Jon Hamm, and jazz

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The trailer for Howl, which centers on the obscenity trial Allen Ginsberg (James Franco) faced after the publication of his poem of the same name, is now online. We see a lot of Franco and the performance EW critic Owen Gleiberman said nails “the poet’s winningly bombastic urban-intellectual glee; he’s like a young rabbi letting himself go in the New York beatnik underground.” (The film screened at Sundance.) Watch it below. I’m sure I should be thinking of weightier things to type, but really, all that’s going through my mind is that I’m glad all of glimpses of Jon Hamm (who plays the attorney who defends City Lights bookstore proprietor Lawrence Ferlinghetti, so he’s in a nice suit) are in color. READ FULL STORY »

Jul 12 2010 03:15 PM ET

Jon Hamm talking about what makes a woman sexy is sexier than a photo of Jon Hamm

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Jon-Hamm-and-Rebecca-HallImage Credit: Nathaniel Goldberg/W MagazineJon Hamm and Rebecca Hall — co-stars of The Town, the upcoming Ben Affleck-directed Beantown-set cops-and-robbers drama — grace the August cover of W magazine. You’ll want to peruse the photos first, naturally, but read the interview, and you might be shocked to find that there is something sexier than a picture of the Mad Men star sporting stubble: Hamm saying, “I played Winnie-the-Pooh in first grade.” Hamm discussing what makes a woman sexy. The topic arose when W asked Hall if she’d classify Hamm as a man’s man or a ladies’ man. She said she wasn’t sure: He can hang with the boys and play sports and talk to women about emotions and shoes. ”Absolutely. Can and do,” Hamm confirmed. “I was raised by a single mother. I think the definition of a man’s man has shifted in recent times to this sort of fratty bro, different from the older version, which was aloof and distant — Gary Cooper or Cary Grant or James Bond. Now it’s a little vulgar, kind of lowbrow, adolescent. I’m not that guy. Part of being an adult is treating women like women.”

“The grand pendulum has swung backwards a little bit. Women are allowing themselves to be objectified as ‘empowerment,’” Hall said. “I suppose to some degree you have to go through that phase of, like, ‘Look, I can make myself a sexualized object.’ Still, I just hope that it’s okay for women to read and be bright and talk about interesting things and be sexy.”

“To be able to read and talk about complicated things is sexy,” Hamm said. “It’s not just having a pair of bolt-on tits.” READ FULL STORY »

Jul 9 2010 04:08 PM ET

This is the week of Despicable Me

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despicable-weekImage Credit: Universal; David Studarus/Showtime ; Mark Brendel /ABC; Bob Luckey/Greenwich Times/AP ImagesImagine our surprise to receive this doomsday iPhone missive from Doc Jensen during his summer vacation: “A DARK CLOUD OF DESPICABLE ME-NESS HAS DESCENDED UPON US! RUN FOR OUR LIVES!” We honestly had no idea he was camping in the middle of the jungle on The Island from Lost. But as usual, Doc is correct! This week’s main source of entertainment has come from people behaving badly. READ FULL STORY »

Jun 28 2010 11:40 AM ET

'Mad Men': It's hard to get obsessed with promos that tell us nothing. But I'm a go-getter and I did it!

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Pop Culture Pet Peeve: Ubiquitous promos that tell us nothing about the new season. Come on, Mad Men: Give me something! A glimpse at which plaid Don will be draped in during rare cozy-time scenes! A [click-click-hair toss] from Joan! An explanation for what Don Draper was up to in the great outdoors during filming! I want at least one new mysterious word-clump of dialogue per promo per week until the July 25 premiere, so we can continue to needlessly post them here and figure out what it all means. Video’s after the jump. READ FULL STORY »

May 14 2010 03:21 AM ET

'30 Rock' recap: Come on, Bible, help a lady out

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30_rockImage Credit: Ali Goldstein/NBCIt’s wedding season PopWatchers, and just as the tradition goes, we got a heavy dose of “something old” on last night’s 30 Rock. Tracy revisited painful childhood memories, while Liz spent time with boyfriends past, hoping to find she had somehow been wrong about one of these duds all along.

So Liz gave her Gentlemen Rolodex a spin (or as Jenna likes to call it, “sexual time travel”) in order to prevent being dateless at Floyd’s wedding. While the fear of looking like a loser in the eyes of your ex can be paralyzing, is it really worth revisiting a frustrating relationship that failed for a reason? (Even if it happened to be with the dapper Jon Hamm, so handsome!). Yes, I have my judgment face on, but only because I know that astronaut Mike Dexter is out there for you Liz Lemon! And for me too, and for all of us…he better be, because I don’t want to end up a Plushie, mascot costumes aren’t my thing. READ FULL STORY »

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