Basket of Kisses

Jon Hamm on the awesomeness of Mad Men fans and of Basket of Kisses: It’s just nice to see that when you work on something, and me, in particular, once we start working in the summertime, it’s pretty much an every day all day thing for me, and it’s very long hours. And you’re making [...]

So, one of our fun features at Basket of Kisses is Jon Hamm Birthday Week. We do it every year, and it’s always fun. Our fundraiser theme is “seasons,” so here we go: Season One Jon Hamm’s birthday, 2008. Season Two Jon Hamm’s birthday, 2009 Season Three In 2010, we did Gratuitous Images for Birthday [...]

In this very special installment of the Basket of Kisses December Fundraiser, we’d like to take a moment to pay homage to those (characters) who have passed away. “I tell you I was blind, and now I see.” –Ida Blankenship, The Summer Man “I know everything about you and I still love you.” –Anna Draper, [...]

Occasionally on Mad Men, I am not sure if I’m supposed to like certain characters or not. Betty’s sister-in-law Judy is a good example. Betty sometimes acted as if Judy was manipulative, but I never saw Judy act anything but helpful and sweet, and in a very genuine way. So I don’t know if it [...]

Stolen (2009) 6/10 Police sergeant Tom Adkins (Jon Hamm) is searching for his missing son, who disappeared 8 years ago. When the body of a boy Tommy’s age is found, Adkins is called in, but this child died in the 1950s. Stolen is presented in elegant parallel. Cutting between 2008 and 1958, we learn the [...]

Guest post by Adam Newland, “The TV Czar.” Imagine that you had a friend who was in a tragic accident that landed them in a coma in 2006 (or your mother-in-law, whatever makes you feel good). Now imagine that they awoke from their extended slumber in the year 2011 and kept reading and hearing things [...]

ETonline has an exclusive first look at Jon Hamm in The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret.  CeleBuzz has pics of Jon in full Don Draper mode. The L.A. Times highlights Jon – and Bryan Cranston — as actors who excel at drama and comedy. The Film Experience’s Nathaniel R opines that Christina Hendricks and Jon Hamm [...]

The theme that cuts across all of American male life is ‘not living up to some standard’. – Marshall Herskovitz Man Of The House, the second episode in the excellent PBS series America in Primetime, premiered on PBS last Sunday night. Now midway though its four-week run, the series has already examined women on TV [...]

James Bond 23 – now officially titled Skyfall – will face its greatest challenge in his spy career—be a worthy Oscar contender next year. Casting Albert Finney can’t hurt. Entertainment Weekly extracts from Matthew Weiner’s take on his renegotiations with AMC (and the alleged impact on other shows) from the interview with his sister,  freelance [...]

Big, Easy Style: Creating Rooms You Love to Live In, by Bryan Batt Bryan Batt (Salvatore Romano for three seasons of Mad Men) has written his second book, this one about one of his life’s passions and his second career: Home decor. In addition to being an accomplished actor, Bryan is the owner of Hazelnut [...]

Drive (2011) 9/10 The Driver (Ryan Gosling) drives stunt cars for movies, and is also a getaway car driver for hire, no questions asked. He becomes involved with his neighbor, Irene (Carey Mulligan). When Irene’s husband gets out of jail, the Driver’s desire to help collides with his professional and criminal cool. Co-starring Albert Brooks, [...]

Matthew Weiner talked to Vulture about The Playboy Club, Pan Am, and his relationship with AMC.  Pandagon’s Amanda Marcotte uses the interview as a springboard to arguing there may really not be an audience for true period shows. Matt, Jon Hamm, Christina Hendricks, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Aaron Staton and Vincent Kartheiser will host a fundraiser for [...]

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