writer Amy Stewart
As for who she’d like to see play the dashing Sheriff Heath, Stewart didn’t even have to think about it. “Someone like Jon Hamm,” Stewart replied, referring to the handsome, Emmy-winning “Mad Men” star. So ... someone like Jon Hamm? But not Hamm?
Stewart laughs. “When he started on ‘Mad Men’ people didn’t know who he was. But he had that ‘everyman’ look and I think that’s how Heath should look.”
italian article
AAA sought a role for Jon Hamm
Don Draper has become one of the television icons of the last 10 years. Sexy, tormented, cuddly, genius, impeccable in the 1960s while savoring her favorite cocktail, Old Fashioned.
Mad Men would not have been the same without the anti-hero interpreted by Jon Hamm . Yet, the series ended in 2015 and its protagonist has not yet found a (other) big role. Because?
But there is something that does not come back. After Mad Men , Hamm should have Hollywood at his feet. He needs a role to his charisma , aplomb, and charm. As the American magazine Variety points out , the American actor had all the cards in order to bid for Sean Connery again. For example, he asks why not choose him as Superman? Instead, for now, nothing. She has accepted minor roles or neglected movies (see Million Dollar Arm ).
It surely counts the legacy of Don Draper at a time when television creates memorable characters capable of entering the imagination of the audience much more than the cinema (committed to franchising).
But it should not be an excuse. The other cult worshiper of the TV, Bryan Cranston , has not lost time and earned a nomination for the Oscars for The Last Word - The True Story of Dalton Trumbo.
Even Draper's female counterpart, Elisabeth Moss / Peggy Olson, is ringing a number of roles that have (almost) forgot the ambitious copywriter of Madison Avenue: just think of Top of the Lake and The Handmaid's Tale .
a fair amount of man-crushing went down Wednesday night at Chateau Marmont.
There was Tony Goldwyn loving on Jon Hamm, Garrett Hedlund gushing about James Marsden and just about everyone bowing down to Sterling K. Brown. Blame Esquire for setting the stage for all the same sex adoration in and around Bungalow 1, but no need to violently shake an especially erect finger as the love flowed all in the name of fashion to celebrate the mag's September issue feature 'Mavericks of Style.'
Red carpet courage is easier said than done, right Tony Goldwyn? "Oh, my goodness, I'm not a big style maverick," laughed the Scandal star who looked like he could've just stepped off set in a navy suit, white shirt and tie. "I tend to be more classic in the way that I approach things that's why I'm really turned on by people who push the envelope in ways that I don't feel comfortable doing."
There are a lot of people who are turned on by Mr. Hamm, Goldwyn included, because he's a guy who does classic "yet seems to be reinventing it."
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/talking-nudity-fashion-man-crushes-at-esquire-party-
this week we have :
tv critic Gail Pennington
I loved to shine a spotlight on St. Louisans in Hollywood and follow their careers. That way, I got to know Jenna Fischer and Ellie Kemper and became friends with their “Office” colleague Phyllis Smith. I was the first person ever to interview Jon Hamm, and he hasn’t forgotten it. Neither has Sterling K. Brown, whom I met in 2005 at his mother’s house.......
from an interview with Nick Kroll
You've got a lot of big names on Big Mouth. You've got Mulaney coming back, you've got Jenny Slate, you've got Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen. Are there any breakout people that you're excited for people to see?
Richard Kind plays Andrew's father and is unbelievable. Jordan Peele is the voice of Duke Ellington. Jon Hamm plays some scallops. Specifically though, Jessi Klein voices the character Jessi and I think Jessi's done incredibly well as a writer. She was Amy Schumer's head writer on Inside Amy Schumer and has written an amazing book, but people don't know her as well as a performer and she's awesome in the show. I will brag about the cast of that show, because I think we've assembled just an insanely funny group of people to be the voices of this show.
https://www.gq.com/story/nick-kroll-has-a-big-mouth
Aouch !
For Post ‘Man Men’ Careers, Elisabeth Moss is Out Front
As post-Mad Men careers go, Jon Hamm seemed like the prohibitive favorite to burst from the pack and stay out front. He hasn’t been hurting for work, but can’t keep up with Elisabeth Moss. Few if any can lately, whatever their recent pasts.
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So perhaps Moss could use a comedy at some point in the not too distant future. For now, though, she has a thoroughly flourishing, albeit somber career that might well find the likes of Hamm’s Don Draper begging to work with her. Barely two years removed from the Mad Menfinale, Moss no longer needs any advertisements for herself.
http://www.tvworthwatching.com/BlogPostDetails
italian Mag/pics (c)(c)Michael Schwartz
RIP Cora
interview in the New-York Times : Jon Hamm’s Second Act
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“I always say I make the movies where people go, ‘Hey, I never saw it, but when I finally did, I really liked it,’” Mr. Hamm said. “People saw ‘Baby Driver,’ though. I was pleased with that.”
His most recent film, the melancholy “Marjorie Prime,” is a well-reviewed adaptation of a Jordan Harrison play directed by Michael Almereyda that includes a much-buzzed-about performance by Lois Smith.
I mentioned that the final scene, with its focus on a character’s relationship with a dog, is affecting without being sentimental.
“Don’t even talk to me,” Mr. Hamm said. “I just lost my dog yesterday.”
He was talking about Cora, a shepherd mix he had gotten with Ms. Westfeldt in the early years of their relationship.
“Cora was the best,” he said. “I was scheduled to fly in at 8 o’clock in the morning, and she passed away right before I got there. It’s been a real hard 24 hours for both me and Jen.” A long pause. “She was 17. She brought a lot of love and a lot of good times to me and other people and Jen, and she’ll always have a real sweet place in my heart. I could go on for three hours about Cora, and I won’t, because I’ll just be a mess.”
He took a sip. “What is this coffee, Grumpy? That’s the one from ‘Girls,’ right?” he said. He studied the frowny-face logo on the cardboard cup. “I’m a big dog fan. They’re the best. They make life better, although they’re hard to deal with. But complications in life are actually what make it fun. If it wasn’t raining today, you know, whatever, I’m glad it rained. And the more people you meet — I’ve had the incredible fortune to meet amazing people, sometimes out of dumb luck, but mostly out of being famous for 10 minutes on a TV show. I could listen to Lorne Michaels tell stories for a hundred years. And he wouldn’t run out. Mike Nichols. Diane Sawyer. Marlo Thomas. Patti LuPone. Meryl Streep. And then friends of mine, also.”
In this category he mentioned Jon Stewart and Hannibal Buress, whom he had seen perform the night before as part of Dave Chappelle’s run of shows at Radio City Music Hall. He also noted his “Mad Men” colleagues Elisabeth Moss (“Lizzie”) and John Slattery (“Slatty”), the directors Greg Mottola and Edgar Wright, and Rosamund Pike (“Roz”), his co-star in “High Wire Act,” a yet-to-be-released thriller written by Tony Gilroy.
“Like, how are we friends?” he said. “How did I get here? I’m from Nowheresville, Missouri. But it was instilled in me from an early age: Why not you? Just because you’re x-y-z from Nowheresville doesn’t mean you’re nothing.”
Show business is filled with good-looking people. The ones who make a mark have emotional depth.
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“When you’re a kid, you’re just not equipped to deal with some of the stuff that life brings you,” he said. “It’s why you have parents. And then, when you don’t, there better be somebody who fills in that gap, or you’re going to be rudderless for a while.”
I brought up the rehab stint. Did it give him a chance to reset himself?
He replied in almost a whisper: “Recalibrate. Re-evaluate. Just sort of re-establish where you are. You’re coming off of this Tilt-a-Whirl that’s going 9,000 miles an hour, and so many things have come unfixed. If you think about navigation, you’re trying to stare at a fixed point. When you navigate to something that’s whirling, it’s difficult. It’s all a learning experience. It’s all about growing older and getting better at living. And I hope I did.”
He got up and took a walk around the room.
“I’ve been really breaking down this year. At 46, for whatever reason, this is the year my body fell apart.” He laughed. “I play baseball, softball, tennis. So these joints take a lot of stress and strain. My eyes are bad. I tore a ligament in my elbow. I’m just like, ‘What happened?’”
He has not been pleased with his recent performances in the wood-bat league that he is part of, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
“I’ve never been the worst person on the team,” he said. “Ever. And I am now. I need to get in shape. I need to rehab my elbow. It’s time to get it going. And I feel that’s kind of the M.O. for my head, too. And my career. Let’s improve. Let’s get better.”
He sat back down. The talk turned to Donald J. Trump, whom he saw, briefly, at a “Saturday Night Live” party in Midtown after the episode hosted by Mr. Trump during the presidential campaign.
“He was with Bill O’Reilly,” Mr. Hamm said. “They’re both tall dudes. And I’m a tall dude. And they both do that tall-dude thing, which is try to intimidate you. And it doesn’t work on me. I’m like, ‘I’m as alpha as you. Let’s go. You’re not going to chest-bump me.’ It was a very weird night. It was the shortest I’ve ever stayed at an ‘S.N.L.’ after-party.”
He said he has high hopes for the success of “High Wire Act,” although he described it as “the kind of movie they don’t really make anymore, because it’s not based on a comic book or a theme-park ride.”
Even “Michael Clayton,” a 2007 film written by the same screenwriter, Mr. Gilroy, is not the kind of thing that gets made much anymore.
“I remember walking out of ‘Michael Clayton’ and being like: ‘I want to be in that movie,’” Mr. Hamm said.
It may be a good sign that he met with Mr. Gilroy to discuss the script at Cafe Luxembourg, the same Upper West Side restaurant where Matthew Weiner, the creator of “Mad Men,” took Mr. Hamm for a celebratory dinner after he got the part of Don Draper.
Does he still feel as driven as he was back then?
“If anything, even more so,” he said.
Before we left the room, he said, “I hope I wasn’t too melancholy or sad,” and showed me a picture on his phone: Cora. “She was a good one,” he said. “She was a real good one.”
From a Certain Point of View, coming October 3, will bring together more than 40 authors for 40 stories, all in celebration of Star Wars‘ 40th anniversary
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StarWars.com: There’s never been a Star Wars book like this before. How did that impact your production of the audiobook version?
Aaron Blank: This was a fun opportunity to do a full-cast Star Wars audiobook, which we’ve only been able to truly do thus far with Ian Doescher’s William Shakespeare’s Star Wars audiobooks because they’re written as plays. We got lucky this time in From A Certain Point of View with all the multiple first person points of view. In addition to multiple perspectives, short stories mean a small time commitment in the recording studio, and that enabled us to pursue some big names! We know some of these readers — like Jon Hamm (reading as Boba Fett) and Neil Patrick Harris (reading about an Imperial officer in the Death Star) — might not be available for an entire audiobook, but we were able to bring them on board for this project.
side effects of hosting Emmy Awards
Hamm was at the 11th annual "Evening Before" party, benefitting Motion Picture & Television Fund
...Television's biggest night took place in Century City, CA Saturday, September 16th
Among the celebrities who attended this year's event were Uzo Aduba, Riz Ahmed, Sasha Alexander, Jaimie Alexander, Debbie Allen, Aziz Ansari, Lauren Ash, Angela Bassett, Vanessa Bayer, Samantha Bee, Jillian Bell, Zach Braff, Madeline Brewer, Alison Brie, Logan Browning, Titus Burgess, Sophia Bush, Linda Cardellini, Michael Chiklis, Priyanka Chopra, Gary Cole, Mike Colter, Laverne Cox, David Cross, Viola Davis, Guillermo Diaz, Sarah Drew, Minnie Driver, Clea DuVall, Natalia Dyer, Lisa Edelstein, Billy Eichner, Tom Ellis, O-T Fagbenle, Edie Falco, Fortune Feimster, Ben Feldman, Joseph Fiennes, Scott Foley, Jason George, Paul Giamatti, Walton Goggins, Ginnifer Goodwin, Max Greenfield, Grace Gummer, Tony Hale, Jon Hamm, David Harbour...
.....the actress had a warm meet up with former Mad Men co-star Jon Hamm.
The friends met in the outside area of the bash around 11:45 p.m., where Moss smoked a cigarette while they talked and laughed. At one point, the actress was laughing so loudly with Hamm that she could be heard across the party.
She also leaned into on Hamm’s chest while he held her head and whispered something to her.
Though the two stars mingled with others throughout the evening, they were never more than a few feet from each other.....
Hamm attends HBO's Post Emmy Awards Reception at The Plaza at the Pacific Design Center
HBO’s post-Emmy party held, per tradition, at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.
Jon Hamm may not have been up for any awards, but he knew the drill. Without being asked a question, the actor diplomatically called out, “I’m very, very happy for everybody tonight! Couldn’t be happier!” With that, he took a bow and went inside where John Oliver, Riz Ahmed, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and the cast of “Veep” were among the winners walking around with awards
Jon Hamm may not have been up for any awards, but he knew the drill. Without being asked a question, the actor diplomatically called out, “I’m very, very happy for everybody tonight! Couldn’t be happier!” With that, he took a bow and went inside where John Oliver, Riz Ahmed, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and the cast of “Veep” were among the winners walking around with awards
Tina Fey held court with Dolly Parton at the NBC and “Saturday Night Live” Emmy party at Hollywood’s Sunset Tower Hotel.
Meanwhile, a single Jon Hamm was also at the bash, “chatting up all the ladies.”
http://pagesix.com/2017/09/17/tina-fey-hangs-with-dolly-parton/
http://pagesix.com/2017/09/17/tina-fey-hangs-with-dolly-parton/
A few hours after the ceremony, the former Emmy winner Jon Hamm described it as “the most diverse, most different, most interesting Emmy show I’ve ever seen.”
Elisabeth Moss was nominated six times for her work playing Peggy Olson on Mad Men without winning, but longtime co-star Jon Hamm, who watched the show from home, had a strong sense that her role on The Handmaid's Tale would get recognized.
"I had told her many times since I saw the show, 'This is a really wonderful piece of work and you deserve to be celebrated for it. Whether or not it happens, that's up to the winds of whatever.' I was incredibly pleased when it happened for her. I know how much work she's put into this, not only as an actress but as a producer. It was such a lovely thing," Hamm tells THR.
But he didn't dare give her any advice. "No, I knew from experience that that's a uniquely personal thing that you're dealing with, and I didn't want to inject myself into that."
He did, however, make sure she knew how proud he was of her as he watched the show from home. "I texted her right after she won and said, 'Congratulations, now turn around and get back out there,' because I had a feeling they were going to win again." And they did. Hamm didn't stay home all night, though. He ended up getting some face time with Moss at Hulu's afterparty at Otium in downtown Los Angeles, which had an electric vibe as guests and execs were toasting the first drama series win for a streaming service.
"Mad Men started 10 years ago and there was no such thing as streaming or iPhones when we started," Hamm noted. "The world moves pretty quick and it's a bizarre new landscape, and I think we're still figuring it out in many ways."
actor Desmond Devenish
The LA Times said Devenish looks like “Jon Hamm’s blonde brother.” When asked for his reaction, he laughed and said, “I’ll take it! ... Press is a very vital thing for any artist....
Sep 21, waiting for his car after lunch
Hamm is in Spain for a shooting
Hamm is the face of the new campaign of Emidio Tucci, a man's fashion line.....
....on Tuesday night, Jon attended a typical Spanish dinner that organized the brand in El Corte Inglés on the Golden Mile with some of our actors, such as Jordi Mollá, Monica Cruz or Goya Toledo, accompanied by her husband Craig Ross , guitarist of Lenny Kravitz. Also invited were Imanol Arias, with Irene Meritxell; the also interpreter of Cuéntame Ricardo Gómez; the Frenchman Stany Coppet and Macarena Gómez, who was in the company of her husband, Aldo Comas.........
Laura Martínez, senior editor of the CNET spanish
Q: Who would you most want to be stuck in an elevator with?
A: Don Draper (Mad Men's Jon Hamm) -- not because he's dashingly handsome, but because I hear he's a great conversationalist. 
Paul Dini (Batman: The Animated Series).
"As Don Draper, Jon excelled at playing a character who was ruthless, cunning, and yet undeniably charismatic. There's a lot of that in Fett. Boba is stopping over on Tatooine when he's called on by his old associate Jabba the Hutt to help collect a debt. Naturally this is the money owed to Jabba by Han Solo. The story is a monologue going through Fett's head while he backs up Jabba and stares down Han and Chewie."
actor Adam Scott
How does the Simon & Simon theme win out over others for the first Greatest Event In TV History? Were you a big fan of the original series or was it just obscure enough to strike the right note?
Simon & Simon just happened to be the one we landed on one night when [Jon] Hamm and I were emailing YouTube links back and forth of different credit sequences. It’s the one that we agreed was the best, time to stop this email chain, can’t get any better than this. For me personally, Simon & Simon was the show I’d wait all Thursday night for as a kid –the action, the comedy, the central odd couple relationship — wow, this is starting to sound an awful lot like Ghosted.......
actress Jessica Paré
TTVJ: After Mad Men, you’re no stranger to working on shows with big ensemble casts. What is it like working with the group here on SEAL Team, especially since it’s a lot of guys?
JP: A lot of guys. A LOT of guys! [laughs] It’s very different because I wasn’t on Mad Men until Season 4, so I was already stepping onto a machine that was running seamlessly. We shot in a very classical way, and the way we shoot this is very different. The cameras are moving around all the time, and you kind of don’t know what’s happening. It’s really fun and keeps everything exciting and alive. It is so completely different from the classical way we did things on Mad Men. Both have their pros and cons, but for this in particular where the energy is quick and the action is quick, that way of shooting keeps us on our toes.
In terms of the cast, we are having an absolute blast and it has been so much fun to shoot. We’ve had some really long days, but David Boreanaz is such a great leader, and just like on Mad Men, Jon Hamm really set the tone. I’m very lucky to have worked with Jon, who is an incredible master at that skill, and then go from him to working with David, who is so expansive, generous and funny. It’s a thrill and we’re all very happy.
http://www.thetvjunkies.com/jessica-pare-seal-team-interview/