Mad Men

March 26th, 2012 | 9:47 am by Jordan Runtagh (@JordanRuntagh)

January Jones Ate Her Own Placenta On Mad Men Set

We were kind of wondering why the producers of Mad Men are on their third Bobby Draper. But now we finally have a, err, “taste” of what these kids had to deal with. Apparently their TV mom January Jones ate her own placenta as an extra special energy boost on set! We’re not trying to be insensitive, but it’s gotta be pretty hard for a kid to get into the scene with that going on nearby.

The actress reportedly had a hard time returning to work only a few weeks after giving birth to her son, Xander. So her doula (or labor coach) came to the rescue by prescribing an unusual remedy. “I have a great doula who makes sure I’m eating well, with vitamins and teas, and with placenta capsulation,” January told People magazine. “It’s something I was very hesitant about, but we’re the only mammals who don’t ingest our own placentas. It’s not witchcrafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms.” Check out the gallery below for more strange celebrity tips for staying youthful, energetic and beautiful! Spoiler alert: there’s more placenta.

[Photo: Getty Images]

March 23rd, 2012 | 2:55 pm by Jordan Runtagh (@JordanRuntagh)

Mad Men Cast Sums Up The New Season In One Word … Amazeballs?

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It’s here! The return of Mad Men after two long years is practically being hailed as television’s second coming, and VH1 News was there at the premiere to get the inside scoop from the cast. Fans of the show know that the last season ended with one of the biggest WTF cliff-hangers of all time. So what can we expect from season five? We asked the stars to sum up the new series in one word, and their answers were everything we could hope for!

“Shocking. Surprising. Some sort of ‘S’ word,” said Jon Hamm, while Jared Harris went straight to the heart of the matter by offering “amazeballs.” Well said, sir! January Jones got surprisingly shy when asked to sum up season five. “I can’t! If I think of one word, I feel like it’ll give it away,” she laughed. But eventually she settled on “suspense.” But the final word belongs to John Slattery, who plays office renegade Roger Sterling. “Two words … surprising and satisfying.” Technically he broke the rules, but we’ll take it.

[Photo: AMC]

March 23rd, 2012 | 1:13 pm by Jordan Runtagh (@JordanRuntagh)

Our Mad Men Season 5 Dream Guest Stars: KStew, Coco And More!

The return of Mad Men is so close we can smell it, and it smells like Lucky Strikes and Canadian Club. The record busting series has made its stars Jon Hamm, January Jones, Christina Hendricks and Elisabeth Moss the hottest names in television. But the show also features some already-familiar faces. Community‘s Alison Brie has a recurring role as Trudy Campbell, while former House regular Anne Dudek often appears as Betty Draper’s gossipy neighbor Francine. Tom Hanks‘ son Colin, The Nanny star Charles Shaughnessy, and even Secret World of Alex Mack actress Larisa Oleynik are among the many who’ve taken smaller roles on the series over the years.

Over the winter we heard mutterings that 1960s icon Paul McCartney would be putting in a guest appearance on the retro-show this season. Devastatingly it never happened, but we’ve put together a few suggestions for cameos that we know would bring down the house. From Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, to Coco and Ryan Gosling, check out the gallery below for a distinctly FABLife-tinged look at Mad Men! And watch the video to get even more pumped up for the premiere this Sunday!

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March 21st, 2012 | 11:28 am by Sabrina Rojas Weiss (@shalapitcher)

Mad Men’s New Look: Your Grandma’s Closet

Remember when we all wanted to dress like Joan, Don and Betty? Some of us raided vintage shops, others waited for Banana Republic’s Mad Men line, and the even less daring settled for making cartoon avatars for Facebook. Well, now that we’ve seen some preview pics from Sunday’s season premiere, we are a little bit scared of the influence the show might continue to have.

Season Five kicks off in 1966, the year before the summer of love. But as Bloomberg News points out, the bright sherbert colors and pop-art influence of the era are already evident and a stark contrast to the subtler, martini-bar tones of the early ’60s. And no where is this more obvious than in the above photo of Ken Cosgrove (Aaron Staton), Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) and Trudy Campbell (Alison Brie). I definitely found several variations of Pete’s jacket among my husband’s grandfather’s things years ago. And I have no doubt I’ve seen pictures of my grandmother wearing something like that orange dress on the lady in the background (is that Ken’s wife? Too many months have gone by for me to remember the other spouses). I’m sure your mom tried out a floral pattern like Trudy’s at some point. Oh, yeah. This is no longer the boucle wool and silk scarf era. They’re all about polyester and nylon here. (Thankfully, previews have shown Joan still sporting her signature figure-hugging dresses.)

Maybe looking like your grandparents and parents on a golf outing isn’t a deterrent enough. So we have one more reason: If you were around for the last time hippie-chic came into fashion in the mid-’90s, you will remember that those fabrics can lead to some rather unpleasant body odor. Don’t let it happen to you, folks. Let’s start dressing like the Game of Thrones cast instead!

Related: 40 Reasons We Can’t Wait For Mad Men To Come Back
Mad Men’s Sally Draper Goes Glam For Grazia Photoshoot

[Photo: AMC]

March 16th, 2012 | 10:00 am by Sabrina Rojas Weiss (@shalapitcher)

Crewel: Exclusive First Look At The “Mad Men Meets Hunger Games” Novel Cover

In case you thought the interest for young-adult dystopian fiction was dying down, we present to you exhibit A: Gennifer Albin’s upcoming novel Crewel, which had seven agents scrambling to represent it, and five publishing houses fighting to buy it in a week. We won’t get to see the book itself until October 16, but we do have this unusual, brilliant cover to share with you. And a few words from Albin herself, who got on the phone with us from her home in Kansas to explain this bizarre “Mad Men meets Handmaid’s Tale Meets The Hunger Games” pitch we keep hearing.

“It’s set in a world where women are cultivated into these kind of femme-fatale types that weave the fabric of life,” Albin explained. “They are made to be these beautiful, deadly women that are then controlled by the all male government.”

Adelice, the 16-year-old at the center of the novel, has the talent needed to become one of these “Spinsters,” but her parents are determined to protect her from that fate. So, is this some kind of commentary on the fame and fashion industries? Not really. “But one of the reasons they are made to be beautiful is because in my perfect world the thing that would tempt me the most is being able to live a really glamorous lifestyle.”
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March 14th, 2012 | 5:19 pm by Jordan Runtagh (@JordanRuntagh)

Mad Men’s Sally Draper Goes Glam For Grazia Photoshoot

Kiernan Shipka’s life must be pretty awesome. At the age of 12, she’s just wrapped her fifth season playing Sally Draper on the record-busting Mad Men, and has a department store-size closet of haute couture which she gets to wear to glitzy Hollywood balls. She’s done more than most adults, but her parents still won’t let her watch her own series. “I’m not allowed to watch the show, apart from my own scenes,” she told Grazia Magazine. “I’ll start watching it when I’m older. I’ll have a lot of DVD marathons.” So what does she do with the time the rest of us spend endlessly watching the Draper family on Netflix Instant? Develop her killer style sense! Just check out the glam photos from her Grazia shoot. “I am a huge fashion fan. It’s a really cool way to express yourself. I’m always excited to get to set and see what I’m wearing,” she says. She has guest-blogged for Lucky, and cites Papo D’Anjo and Ralph Lauren among her favorite brands. “My style is constantly changing. At the moment I look preppy, but with an edge.”

She looked less edgy and more classy as she strolled the red carpet last night at the PaleyFest’s 2012 tribute to Mad Men in Beverly Hills. There she was reunited with her TV parents Jon Hamm and January Jones, along with fellow cast mates John Slattery, Vincent Kartheiser and Robert Morse. Show creator Matthew Weiner was also on hand, and spoke about where he sees the series going, and eventually ending. “I think the plan is for [Mad Men to run for] seven years,” he told the press panel. “Seven years sounds like the right amount. My whole thing is, I don’t want to overstay our welcome. And it’s really hard.” He cited The Sopranos as an example of what not to do with a series. “I was with The Sopranos the last three seasons of the show, and what happens is you just start running into the places where you’ve been over and over again and it just becomes impossible.” How he’s gonna paint himself out of season four’s cliffhanger is anybody’s guess. Is it March 25 yet!?

[Photo: Grazia Magazine/Getty Images]

March 12th, 2012 | 5:03 pm by Sabrina Rojas Weiss (@shalapitcher)

Kim Kardashian Calls Jon Hamm “Careless” — Can We Spice Up This Beef?

So, last week, Jon Hamm lamented to Elle U.K. that “being a f—ing idiot is a valuable commodity in this culture because you’re rewarded significantly.” And the Mad Men star specifically called out Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian as examples of “stupidity” being celebrated. Today, Kim struck back, tweeting:

“I just heard about the comment Jon Hamm made about me in an interview. I respect Jon and I am a firm believer that everyone is entitled to their own opinion and that not everyone takes the same path in life. We’re all working hard and we all have to respect one another. Calling someone who runs their own businesses, is a part of a successful TV show, produces, writes, designs, and creates, ‘stupid,’ is in my opinion careless.”

Ooooh, burn, Don Draper. She respects you but thinks you’re careless. Oh, come on, Kim! You are making our jobs difficult here! Can’t you call him better names? Mock his basic cable pay? Wonder how he qualifies as smarter than you, since his job is to pretend sleep with a lot of women and basically be objectified by ladies on a weekly basis? Seriously, guys. You’re leaving all the good beefs to the Mob Wives and rappers. We bet Peggy Olsen and Roger Sterling would have awesome comebacks up their sleeves.

Readers, would you care to craft something for our imaginary battle between Jon and Kim?

Related: Jon Hamm Is Just The Latest Celeb To Rip On The “Stupidity” Of Kim Kardashian
40 Reasons We Can’t Wait For Mad Men To Come Back

[Photos: AMC, Kim Kardashian's Instagram]

March 9th, 2012 | 1:49 pm by Jordan Runtagh (@JordanRuntagh)

40 Reasons We Can’t Wait For Mad Men To Come Back

Every day we wake up, run to the calender and see if it’s finally March 25. Why do we do this? Because that’s the day Mad Men finally returns to our TV sets! It’s been over a year, and we have so many questions that need to be answered, so many characters to catch up with…and so many sexy styles to feast our eyes upon. At least the cast has been helping us out on that last part, with Jon Hamm, January Jones, and Christina Hendricks appearing in an endless stream of sizzling spreads for magazines around the world. The latest comes from from Elisabeth Moss, who appeared on the cover of Page Six Magazine yesterday looking light-years away from her dowdy Peggy Olsen alter ego.

“Sometimes you just wanna wear somethin’ real tight and show it all off,” she says, donning a trench coat, bra and not much else for most of the shoot. “Lately I’ve been in that mood.” Despite this mood, Moss says she doesn’t regret having to stick to a much more subdued wardrobe for her role on the show. “I would much rather have an interesting character to play. I didn’t get into the business to be a model.” But one look at these red hot pics shows that she could definitely be at home on the catwalk. In fact, the show boasts perhaps the most attractive cast in TV history (sorry, Golden Girls).

It’s been a long year and a half since we’ve seen Don, Betty, Peggy and Joan and all of their glamorous glory, and we’re not sure if we can take another few weeks. So to fill the Draper-shaped hole in your heart, here are some of the hottest shots of everyone’s favorite 1960s crew (sorry, Beatles). Is it March 25 yet? How about now?

[GQ/Page Six Magazine/Glamour]

February 13th, 2012 | 2:16 pm by Sabrina Rojas Weiss (@shalapitcher)

BAFTA Awards: Hot Stuff And Hot Messes Across The Pond

The fact that the British Film and Television Awards took place on the same day as the Grammys probably only annoys folks like us, who would really like to be giving both events our full attention. And so it goes that we basically ignored the U.K.’s Oscars, missing adorable speeches from The Artist’s Jean Dujardin and Michel Hazanavicius (whose Best Actor and Best Director wins were two of seven awards for the film), and not catching that cute moment in which Best Actress winner Meryl Streep lost her shoe climbing the stairs to the stage and Colin Firth ran to get it for her and place it on her feet. Until now, of course. On the red carpet, there were a handful of A-listers, a few Mad Men and Downton Abbey faves, and a lot of Brits that haven’t fully crossed over to the states yet. To our slight disappointment, there weren’t too many total fashion fails, but we managed to find a few (Oh, Christina Hendricks, why must you do that to your body?). Mostly, though, we saw some sexy strutting from the likes of Viola Davis, Christina Ricci and Brad Pitt. See for yourself who was hot, and who was just a hot mess, in the gallery below.

[Photos: Getty Images]

February 2nd, 2012 | 4:04 pm by Sabrina Rojas Weiss (@shalapitcher)

Christina Hendricks, Banana Republic And The Mad Men Headline We Want To Read

The Mad Men season premiere must be getting closer (March 25), because today we have two MM-related headlines that we’ve decided to mash-up into the story we’d really like to read. Story 1: Christina Hendricks and her slamming bod are on the cover of the March Cosmo U.K. In the interview, she talks very sweetly about how she met her husband, Geoffrey Arend, and what she thinks of being a sex symbol. “It’s incredibly flattering and surprising, and I didn’t think for a second when I started Mad Men that people would talk about me as being sexy or a pin up. ‘My husband has a good laugh about it, of course.’ ”

Story 2: Fashionista is reporting that after the success of their first Mad Men-inspired line, they’ll be releasing a second one, with 40 pieces of men’s and women’s clothing and accessories designed with the help of the show’s costume designer, Janie Bryant.

Now the story we’d like to read: Buying these items of Banana Republic clothing will instantly make you look like Christina Hendricks or Jon Hamm. I mean, really. It’s not the 1960s anymore, can’t science come up with this product?

[Photo courtesy Cosmopolitan.co.uk]