Two magazines
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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January 8th, 2009 at 10:06 am
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.
January 8th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
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.
January 8th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
EW pics of Mad Women in costume and in hot dresses.
January 8th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
She was named for the character January… Wayne, I think, in Jacqueline Susann's Once is Not Enough.
January 8th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Here's the EW blurb on ''Meditations in an Emergency'' and Ken Tucker's list.
January 8th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Plus, January was born in January.
January 8th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
See, I could SWEAR I saw that photo (or at least those hot dresses) last year.
January 8th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Entirely possible, though I surely would remember if I had seen them. And worth seeing again, in any event.
/lizardbrain
January 8th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
THREE magazines, if you count this one:
http://www.verdugomonthly.com/article.php?id=384&...
January 8th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Karl, really? You think it's possible to /lizardbrain? Good luck with that.
January 8th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
"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.
January 8th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Thank you!
January 8th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
It's possible to /lizardbrain. Temporarily, anyway. In writing, anyway.
January 9th, 2009 at 6:48 am
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.