Jon Hamm: The True Hollywood Story? Esquire’s Tom Ciarella just might be stretching a point or two:
Little-known fact: Jon Hamm owns four eagles. They sit on separate perches in his backyard. Four species of eagle: golden, tawny, Spanish Imperial, and short-toed snake.
Previously unknown: Every morning, these eagles are fed, then rotated by a robed assistant whose sole duty is to judge which of these regal birds looks most like Jon Hamm on that particular day before placing said eagle on the left-most perch. The remaining eagles are also ranked by their resemblance that day, from left to right. This puts the eagle that looks the least like Jon Hamm on a given day in shadow once the sun goes behind Hamm’s enormous seven-story garage. Amazingly, in the twelve years Hamm’s lived here, the same eagle has sat in the shadows on consecutive days only three times. Incredible.
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Christina Hendricks made a fashion statement at the BAFTAs. [I must add this pic for sheer Mad Men-esque irony -K] CH talked about working on a cockney accent for her upcoming role in Bomb at a BAFTA afterparty. She also scored with a more conservative look while being honored at the Elle Style Awards.
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“Sir Paul McCartney may be licensing music to Mad Men, but will not have a cameo.”
Thank goodness. When I read this, all I could think was shark-jumping moment. Once a series starts having celebrity cameos, it’s all over. Plus, how could they play this? Have him be someone from Putnam Powell?
Wait. That eagle story isn’t true is it? That would be incredibly expensive. Please tell me that a tabloid story only.
Which is more improbable? Four eagles in a California residential neighborhood, or a seven-story garage? Looks like a toss up to me.
I’ve seen hawks flying in the wild out here in the eastern section of San Diego County, but as for four captive eagles in an L.A. residential dwelling, I dunno.
Of course, if one of Jon’s eagles swoops down and grabs Joan’s canary, we’ll know the story is true.
He seems far too normal for me. Plus the end of the article list “true facts” so I’m going to presume everything else is fabrication.
This article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_and_Golden_Eagle_Protection_Act
seems to indicate that, like Baldy’s, the Golden is contraband – with criminal penalties for possession.
Up here, we have so much habitat, that eagles are not endangered in fact – but the Fed will still punish you for picking up a Bald Eagle feather off the beach – so goes the popular rumor.
BTW, my teenagers and I spent four days in San Diego last spring – we liked it.
That whole Esquire article is the weirdest celeb profile I’ve ever come across.
Could not agree more….what interviewer would ask for a written letter from the person being profiled and then quote the letter in their article?
I am hoping that this is all about irony.
I could barely get through that article. Jon Hamm must have read it and been like, “what?” Cut to youtube video of Draper saying, “What?”
You crack me up, and your comments made me think of Liz Lemon saying “What the what?”
The photos, however, are quite wonderful and the ONLY reason to look at that article.
This may be a reach, but I think the subtext of that story is, “Tom Chiarella is in love.”
And I believe I speak for most of womankind by saying: Get in line, man. Get in line.
The subtext is, “I plan to murder Jon Hamm and assume his life as my own.”
The Talented Mr. Chiarella?
I don’t want to be an ungrateful fan, but could the Season 5 promos they just began to circulate have just 1 new scene…anything…I’ll take a still of someone with a new haircut, anything! I get it Matt, you want it all to be a surprise, but just a shot of someone in a new outfit. They don’t have to say a word, or be anywhere that gives anything away. Just anything not from the past 52 episodes. I think I’m on a Don Season 4 trajectory where I’m gonna have to hit rock bottom before I am saved by the premiere.
Well, there were those spoiler photos of 2 of the characters in a parking lot. I know, no spoilers allowed here, but if I recall their hair and clothes looked not much changed.
There has never been a promo that showed things we haven’t seen in previous seasons. Never. I mean, unless you count the promos prior to the premiere of season 1.