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Jon Hamm Gave Up 60 of His ‘Fletch’ Salary to Pay for Filming After Financiers Passed and Said Nobody Would Care About It
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Continue readingJon Hamm Calls Out ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Success Over Marvel Movies: ‘That’s Unprecedented’
Jon Hamm is taking the old Superman catchphrase “it’s a bird, it’s a plane” quite seriously.The “
Continue readingEven Elisabeth Moss Can’t Save ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 5
Over two decades of TV, the burden placed on Elisabeth Moss’ face would leave a lesser actor permanently disfigured. “Mad Men” pushed Peggy from a surprise pregnancy through bitter battles with a bitchy boss. “Top of the Lake” cast her as a sexual assault specialist. Hell, even “The West Wing” put President Bartlet’s daughter, Zoey, […]
Continue reading‘Confess, Fletch’ Trailer: Jon Hamm and John Slattery Set a ‘Mad Men’ Reunion in Maddening Mystery
Almost 40 years since the original “Fletcher” film and Jon Hamm is now taking over as the wise-cracking investigative reporter, Irwin M. Fletcher.Originally portrayed by Chevy Chase in “Fletch” in the ’80s, Fletcher is now a semi-retired reporter living in Europe and writing about lifestyle, art, and travel. That is, until he is hired to […]
Continue readingHow Christina Hendricks’ Accordion Skills Made It Into The Mad Men Script
One of the ways “Mad Men” makes its many dour moments more palatable is through music, from impromptu musical numbers to dinner party concerts. Who can forget Bert Cooper’s song-and-dance number, or Megan Draper’s French serenade of “Zou Bisou Bisou.” In another memorable musical moment from the show, Joan Holloway sings in French while also […]
Continue reading15 Underrated Episodes Of The Sopranos
Before there was prestige TV, there was “The Sopranos.” The series effortlessly blends brilliant dialogue with complex, serious plots, proving from the beginning that its creative team trusted the intelligence of their audience. It is continuously ranked near the top of best-of lists, and has been awarded every trophy in the game, including 21 Emmys […]
Continue readingMatthew Weiner Was Very Meticulous About Casting Mad Men’s Extras
Although “Mad Men” was a show that paid a lot of attention to detail, it did mess up on occasion. For instance, the writing on the sign on the Sterling Cooper building in the early seasons is in the Gil Sans font, a font that was not in popular use until the seventies! Boy, I […]
Continue readingThe 14 Best Mad Men Characters, Ranked
The entertainment industry went through a significant period of change in the past two decades. It had been a long-standing notion that television was a “lesser” art form compared to film. Today, they are almost indistinguishable. Television’s new golden age truly began with “Mad Men,” which began airing its first season on AMC in 2007. […]
Continue reading‘Corner Office’ Review: Jon Hamm Switches Jobs, Playing a Dull Desk Jockey in This Indie Oddity
In “Mad Men,” Jon Hamm had his corner office: the room with a view, overlooking Madison Avenue, where Don Draper could work, drink and brainstorm in peace. Maybe that’s why the actor was drawn to playing a lowly paper-pusher with a bad mustache and big dreams of occupying such a space in “Corner Office,” a […]
Continue readingRobert Morse Was An Integral Part Of Mad Men, One Of The Greatest Shows Of The 21st Century
There’s an episode of “Mad Men” with an especially morbid subplot. The agency is in chaos, a client is in town, and in the middle of an important presentation, Miss Blankenship (Randee Heller), Bertram Cooper’s elderly secretary and the entire firm’s crotchety grandma, dies. It’s played for laughs, but not really. While everyone is concerned, their […]
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