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Who'll Be Back for the Next Season of Mad Men?
Brian Moylan · 11/09/09 05:15PMJoker Face
Brian Moylan · 10/22/09 09:33AMWait, Has Jon Hamm's Deal Been Extended, Too?
Gabriel Snyder · 09/01/09 01:20PMApocalyptic Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens' Engagement: Causing Teens To Spontaneously Combust
Foster Kamer · 08/16/09 10:15AMOn Vacation with Jon Hamm
Richard Lawson · 07/28/09 11:02AMJon Hamm and Ben Affleck to Get Romantic
Richard Lawson · 07/28/09 09:44AMDon Draper Would Not Approve of AMC Mad Men Pitch
Natasha VC · 07/21/09 01:20PMWait, Is Tyler Perry Jewish?
Natasha VC · 07/16/09 11:05AMThe Perfect Antidote to the Summer of Death: Jon Hamm Publicity Tour
Natasha VC · 07/14/09 03:05PMAna Marie Cox's White House Correspondents Dinner Super Awesome Celeb Scrapbook
Foster Kamer · 05/10/09 08:15AMThe Only Ones Who Really Understand Us are the British
Richard Lawson · 04/27/09 11:02AMHappy Birthday
cityfile · 03/10/09 06:47AMReal estate legend Barbara Corcoran turns 60 today. Nobuyuki Matsuhisa is turning 60 today, too. Sharon Stone is 51. Record producer Rick Rubin is turning 46. Model Eva Herzigova is 36. Timbaland is 38. Prince Edward is 45. Edie Brickell is turning 43. Carrie Underwood is 26. Mad Men star Jon Hamm is 38. CNBC's David Faber is turning 45. Actress Olivia Wilde is 25. Chuck Norris is 69. And deep in a cave on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, Osama bin Laden is celebrating his 52nd birthday.
Jon Hamm A Hostage To His Own Blinding Attractiveness
Seth Abramovitch · 02/05/09 09:18PMJon Hamm Smothered In Frosting For '30 Rock' Appearance
Seth Abramovitch · 01/27/09 01:36PMBirds Suck
Seth Abramovitch · 01/15/09 08:45PMCan Jon Hamm Become A Movie Star?
Richard Lawson · 10/31/08 10:41AMOh, swoon. Just when we thought we couldn't like him any more, Mad Men star Jon Hamm has to go and do a guest-spot on funniest show ever 30 Rock. As a potential love interest for Liz! So that's pretty great. He ably hosted Saturday Night Live last weekend, so we're confident he'll bring the funny. Is this guy on track to be the next George Clooney or what? He's charming and amiable but stern at times, has rugged good looks, and a relaxed but assured masculinity. He's got it all! Or does he... I mean, he's still living pretty modestly. The first season of Mad Men, given that it's an AMC show, probably didn't pay much and his second season contract most likely didn't give him a huge raise. Last we checked, he was living in Los Feliz and driving a leased Audi. So he's not quite tooling around his own Clooney Manor on Lake Como yet. Nor is Mad Men an enormous success or the Hamm name a household one. Yet. Actually he sort of reminds us of those young lads from Good Will Hunting who stood, some 11 years ago, poised to conquer the world. One went one way, the other another. And that has made all the difference. Mr. Hamm is, yes, about ten years older now than Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were when they broke out, but he's arguably at the same career crossroads. So now does he go the Affleck route and try to make his movie star name in cheesy blockbusters and just become a Big Famous Person? Or does he tread more stealthily, choosing diverse and difficult actor parts with fancy directors, like Damon did with The Talented Mr. Ripley and All The Pretty Horses. We know how all that turned out, so hopefully Hamm will take Damon route and do the art house pictures and become big ticket popcorn star. Just like Mr. Clooney, really, who zipped his way through good schlock (the Ocean's movies) and bad schlock (Batman & Robin) before he could really exercise some muscle and get his own creative pet projects made. Clooney has, really, the perfect acting career—a mixture of dark, substantive work and fun lighter fare—and Damon looks to be following ably in his footsteps. We hope that Hamm can do the same. Right now he's got both an indie and a big blockbustery thing in the can, so... two roads diverge.
The Day The Keanu Performance Stood Still
STV · 10/30/08 01:30PMThe ugly new trend in epic-length movie trailers continues today with the latest teaser for The Day the Earth Stood Still, the remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic creatively recast with Keanu Reeves as a flat-voiced humanoid alien warning Earth's inhabitants of their impending doom. Quite a stretch, we know (and yes, he has made this one before), but from the looks of the accompanying clip, DTESS is a soaring upgrade from low-budget earnestness to a sort of glossy, glassy-eyed indignance; there is true, brow-furrowing peril in that stilted baritone suggesting his past "would only frighten you." If only we felt less endangered by the four minutes of line readings that follow from Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates and even Jon Hamm, from whom we expected so much more than bromides about the history of mankind. Believe us, Jon — we know history, and this has all the symptoms of being exactly that. And not the good kind, either. [20th Century Fox]
'SNL' Prepares For Future Sans Brand-New Baby Mama Amy Poehler
Kyle Buchanan · 10/27/08 11:20AMWhile it is a joyous event that comedians Amy Poehler and Will Arnett delivered their first child, Archibald, over the weekend, we recognize that this development has some downsides, too (though perhaps not the ones implied by the above "circle of child life and death" feature that is currently gracing the front page of Yahoo!). For starters, this marks Poehler's end on Saturday Night Live, as the new mother will be segueing to her still-untitled NBC sitcom after some well-deserved maternity leave. Just as devastating: Poehler's unplanned absence from this week's live taping of SNL forced the audience to sit through a third, hastily scheduled Coldplay performance. Still, at least Poehler ducked out before she had to take part in the painful Barack Obama skit that Lorne Michaels pointlessly lured Maya Rudolph back for. Take a look, after the jump:Click to view
Saturday Night Live Cold Open More Effective Than Campaign Ad
Alex Carnevale · 10/26/08 08:20AMIn a mock campaign commercial on last night's SNL, Jon Hamm portrayed hapless Butts, New York candidate Pat Finger. Analysts were predicting an even poorer result for a subject of the show's opening satire, embattled Pennsylvania rep John Murtha. The attention paid to Murtha's recent gaffe (in which he called his constituents racists) will likely cost the congressman his House seat next month, observers immediately began to suggest. Can a few minutes really swing that campaign? Click for the video.Standing in the way of Rep. Murtha's re-election is Iraqi War vet Lt. Col. William Russell, who came into the race with a far smaller profile. After describing the area he represents as racist and redneck in separate recent comments, he was already expecting his five point edge over Russell to continue evaporating. And then this largely unfunny thing happened last night: Observer of the contest Mark Hemingway immediately wrote that the sketch