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Yvette Nicole Brown, Tony Hale, Jon Hamm, Chelsea Handler and Heidi Klum will play Password in NBC's new version of the classic game show.
"The premiere features Fallon and Hamm competing in an episode dedicated to the late Betty White, a frequent player of the game and wife of the original Password host Allen Ludden," NBC said in a press release.
Password Is Back Starring Jimmy Fallon with Host Keke Palmer!
Selling Lies with Jon Hamm
The actor meets up with the writer John Mankiewicz to prep for the propaganda-themed première party for their podcast, “The Big Lie,” in which Hamm, as a Commie-fighting G-man, plays a different kind of man in a hat.
In a recent Thursday, Chantal Smith, a creative director, met the actor Jon Hamm and the writer-producer John Mankiewicz outside Studio 525, in Chelsea, to give them a preview of the party space for the première of their new docudrama, “The Big Lie,” débuting the following night at the Tribeca Festival. Hamm wore aviator sunglasses, a brown denim jacket, and cuffed jeans; Mankiewicz wore a suit with no tie. They both looked intrigued. Smith gestured toward the entrance, which would be red-carpeted and ringed with lights. “It looks glamorous from the outside, but you’ll quickly discover that everything is not as it seems,” she said. “The Big Lie,” in which Hamm plays an F.B.I. agent, is set in McCarthy-era Hollywood, among blacklisted writers and directors struggling to shoot a workers’-rights-themed movie while being treated as political subversives. Hamm’s character, via suave duplicity, is trying to stop them.
“The Big Lie” is a podcast, on Audible. “All these forms are breaking down and realigning,” Hamm said. (The Tribeca Festival, formerly just for film, now encompasses many genres, including virtual reality.) Smith guided them down a hall, amid noisy set construction, describing the space’s coming features: vintage anti-Commie propaganda, audio of huac testimony, fedoras dangling overhead, theatrical fog. Hamm suddenly spotted a friend and greeted him with a hug that seemed poised for liftoff. “That’s our director, Aaron Lipstadt,” Mankiewicz said.
Next: an F.B.I. office, with mid-century typewriters and a trenchcoat, and which, like a Sterling Cooper office, was also a bar. News clippings and photographs of film-industry leftists were arrayed like a murder board, connected by tangles of string; Hamm peered at a diagram titled “How to Detect a Lie.” The podcast’s first episode, played in the next room, would be augmented by projections of stars evoking Griffith Observatory; a shadow play; and onscreen images that stopped short of making a movie out of a podcast. After a preview, Hamm praised the shadow actors. “Looks very cool, you guys,” he said.
In a greenroom, Hamm reclined on a couch. “I’m runnin’ on fumes,” he said. “Five countries in four days, doing the ‘Top Gun’ stuff.” Hamm, Tom Cruise’s foil in “Top Gun: Maverick,” had recently attended première events on an aircraft carrier (Cruise arrived by helicopter); at the London Ritz (featuring British royals); at Cannes; and so on. Podcasts, he said, had a certain appeal: “You don’t have to buy three hundred cars and populate Hollywood Boulevard. It’s all in your mind, right?”
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Mankiewicz, grandson of Herman (“Citizen Kane”) and son of screenwriter Don, is a longtime television writer and producer; he met Hamm on “The Division,” a Lifetime cop drama, in the early two-thousands. “I was the token guy,” Hamm said. By the time Mankiewicz approached Hamm about “The Big Lie,” Hamm was starring on “Mad Men.” He liked the script. “But I was, like, ‘Well, it’s a guy in a hat who smokes cigarettes and drinks—that’s kind of my day job.’ ” Audio, and the current era, put it in a different light: “the power of the big lie,” and the pandemic, and the climate of the big quit. Hamm jabbed his thumb eastward. “We take it for granted now. But go to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory monument and know what working conditions were like before unions, right?”
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Circa “Mad Men,” Hamm watched the BBC documentary “The Century of the Self,” which illuminated some salient concepts about Freud, propaganda, politics, and P.R.: “It talks about hitting those pleasure centers, feeding that ego, giving people what they want: create the itch and sell you the balm. It’s Don Draper, basically. This idea of the big lie is a tale as old as time. And it’s a remarkably effective way to get populations to do what you want.”
“And you can attach the big lie to stories and songs,” Mankiewicz said.
“Woody Guthrie on one side, Toby Keith on the other.”
“That side has no good music,” Mankiewicz said.
“Don’t say that at a Nascar rally,” Hamm said.
St. Louis native Jon Hamm, who plays Cyclone in #TopGun: Maverick, came to visit F/A-18 factories to get an up-close look at the aircraft featured in the film.
Jon Hamm Visits Boeing Super Hornets
will have a limited theatrical release and debut on Premium Video-on-Demand Sept. 16 before premiering on Showtime Oct. 28, Paramount announced.
Fox Sports is launching its marketing campaign for FIFA Men’s World Cup Qatar 2022 today with a 60-second spot starring Jon Hamm as Santa Claus, who learns for the first time that he won’t be the only star of the show come the holiday season—because the World Cup will also be taking place at the same time.
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The second campaign spot featuring Hamm’s Santa will launch in September alongside college football and the NFL, and will continue Santa’s journey in accepting the news the World Cup is moving. The third promo will air closer to the World Cup.
2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup: Jon Hamm as Santa Claus gets his holiday cut short | FOX SOCCER
Ahead of the MLB All-Star Game, the "Mad Men" star stepped in as a field reporter and spoke to some of baseball's biggest names about their favorite nicknames for a home run -- like "bomb" and "nuke." You get the idea.
He also introduced them to a term of his own -- the "Hamm Slamm" -- and even had a canned ham made into a blingy necklace to help christen the term. (That is, until Mets player Pete Alonso broke it.)
"We've learned that there's a lot of names for a home run, but they're all awesome," Hamm said in the segment, played before the big game. "We also learned that there's a lot of major league baseball players that would do anything to get their hands on a bedazzled canned ham."
Los Angeles and Dodger Stadium have been the center of All-Star Game activities all week, including the celebrity softball game.
Jon Hamm and Girlfriend Anna Osceola Wait To Be Seated For Dinner
at Derek Jeter’s Benefit at The Highlight Room
Mr Hamm at the 30th annual ESPY Awards
Dick Vitale embraces Chris Berman, George Bodenheimer & Jon Hamm | 2022 ESPYS
Actor Jon Hamm is endorsing Lucas Kunce in the Missouri race for U.S. Senate, and will help the Democrat fundraise in the final stretch of the primary campaign. Hamm, a Missouri native best known for playing the suave and mysterious Don Draper on “Mad Men,” will appear in a virtual fundraiser with Kunce on Saturday night. Kunce, a former Marine, has run a populist campaign promising to fight the decay of working-class areas in Missouri. His major rival for the Democratic nomination is Trudy Busch Valentine, a philanthropist and member of the storied Busch beer family. Hamm, who also recently starred this summer in “Top Gun: Maverick,” was born in St. Louis and attended the University of Missouri in Columbia. In a statement from Kunce’s campaign, Hamm said most of his family is from Ste. Genevieve, a city of about 5,000 south of St. Louis. For years, Hamm said, he watched Ste. Genevieve the community “go downhill.” Kunce is on a mission to change who has power in the country, Hamm said.
“While corrupt politicians shipped jobs overseas and voted to give handouts to Wall Street + their corporate allies, everyday people just trying to survive in the place they call home ran out of money and opportunities,” Hamm said. Kunce has brought in $1.1 million between April and June. Busch-Valentine raised $360,562 from donors between April and June. The primary election is Aug. 2.
Hammergency | Jon Hamm Progressive Exclusive
