Jan 082009
I have now read my purloined Town and Country magazine. The interview with January Jones was charming. During season 1 interviews, she often gave the impression that she didn’t quite get Betty Draper, but here she seems comfortable, interested, and smart about her character. She speaks sweetly about a childhood in South Dakota, feeling safe, and running loose in the neighborhood. She was neither a prom queen nor a cheerleader.
And then there’s Entertainment Weekly‘s special Best & Worst of 2008 issue. Roberta called to tell me that Mad Men was “all over” this issue, and she was so right that I was compelled to categorize it:
- Don Draper and Joan Holloway (definitely character shots, not actor shots) appear in the cover collage (upper left).
- An article decries the end of “TV’s Second Golden Age,” and notes that Mad Men is the most recent (and perhaps last) entry in that Golden Age.
- Under “Great Performances,” there’s a two-page spread on “The Women of Mad Men,” complete with a stunning photo of January, Christina, and Elisabeth.
- In Ken Tucker’s “Best TV of 2008,” Mad Men comes in at #6.
- In “Our Favorite Episodes of 2008,” Meditations in an Emergency comes in at #2.
- In an EW online poll for the best Broadway debut by a TV star, Elisabeth Moss earned only 8% of the votes for Speed-the-Plow. Daniel Radcliffe earned a whopping 74% for Equus. The lesson here is to get nekkid.
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I just got tickets for Equus! (Seeing it on Buddy Holly Day.) I'm less excited about the nekkid kid and more about the Peter Shaffer brill, and the Richard Griffiths brill.
I hope Matt W & Co come and do promotion for MM in London to prepare for series 2 coming here this spring.
I was so shocked that so many little people had seen it [series 1] here, yet the harsh UK press were fawning all over it.
Did she mention perhaps where/how her parents chose her name? I love her name – it's really cool.
EW pics of Mad Women in costume and in hot dresses.
She was named for the character January… Wayne, I think, in Jacqueline Susann's Once is Not Enough.
Here's the EW blurb on ''Meditations in an Emergency'' and Ken Tucker's list.
Plus, January was born in January.
See, I could SWEAR I saw that photo (or at least those hot dresses) last year.
Not that photo, but those dresses, and they were mentioned in Mad News, but I'll be damned if I can remember where or when.
Entirely possible, though I surely would remember if I had seen them. And worth seeing again, in any event.
/lizardbrain
Karl, really? You think it's possible to /lizardbrain? Good luck with that.
THREE magazines, if you count this one:
http://www.verdugomonthly.com/article.php?id=384&…
"See, I could SWEAR I saw that photo (or at least those hot dresses) last year."
You did, the original photo was used for Men's Vogue before season 2 started.
Thank you!
It's possible to /lizardbrain. Temporarily, anyway. In writing, anyway.