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Project Runway's Tim Gunn Touts Jon Hamm as Today's Cary Grant
Jon Hamm is like Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief and January Jones is like Grace Kelly. That's according to Project Runway's Tim Gunn, one of Mad Men's many famous fans. "I celebrate their looks," he says in the latest issue of TV Guide. The praise doesn't end there. "There's something decidedly old-Hollywood about his charming manner, chiseled features and deep voice," the New York Post comments, about Hamm.
As for the acclaim and fame he's currently enjoying -- "I feel like the kid who finally got invited to the party, and I'm determined to stay up all night so the party doesn't end," Hamm says.
His on-screen wife January Jones isn't the only actress to get nods from the media either. The other ladies of Mad Men are also getting some props. Elisabeth Moss is spotlighted in the New York Post, which says she "quietly steals scene after scene," while the Chicago Tribune remarks upon Christina Hendricks' performance: "Joan is a complicated, guarded survivor in an era that wasn't kind to women with professional ambitions."
As for Mad Men's growing influence, Frank O'Hara's Meditations in an Emergency shot up Amazon.com's bestseller list after Don Draper read from a passage in the drama's Season 2 premiere. "The last four stanzas of the poem 'Mayakovsky' were exactly what I had been trying to say the entire episode," creator Matthew Weiner explained to People magazine.
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I'm so happy for Jon Hamm. It seems like he's labored in the "co-star" parts too long! Glad he's finally "made it" and I hope his "party" (and ours watching his amazing talent/looks) never ends!
I am in love with Donald Draper, thanks to Jon Hamm's exquisite portrayal of him to sheer perfection. Where have you guys been keeping him? More, MORE!!!
Jon Hamm and January Jones are like Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. I met them on their set and told them I watch each episode of Mad Men at least 5 times and each time its like watching it for the first. Jon Hamm said "Is that so", and smiled. January furrowed her brow a little out of shyness and said "really". She looks like a doll I told her too and she said "thank you" enthusiastically. Jon Hamm gently put his hand on the small of her back and turned and walked away, like a classic Cary Grant and Grace Kelly movie. They are so cute together! Watch me as featured background on the Benefactor episode this Sunday! And, vote for me as Peggy (Editor's Pick! So excited!)
You know what show I love almost as much as Mad Men (but for entirely opposite reasons)--Project Runway!! And that's largely because of Tim Gunn! But clearly, he has something that this show has also..."style, smarts and sophistication" (a send up to an old PR episode, btw)!
I wonder if he's posting here????
And yes, Don Draper would be my favorite "bad boy" (I don't like my bad boys to be outright adolescent or sleazy like Roger, though he is also kind of sexy).
Max Headroom + Charles Nelson-Reilly + Tony Randall = TIM GUNN
I just heard about Mad Men this past Friday and I have spent the whole weekend watching all of Season ! and I just finished watching the last episode of Season 2 and all I can say is that I can't get enough. I have never ever commented or blogged any show. Never ever in my 44 years of life have I gone on line and left comments. Love the show...love all the characters! And yes Don and Betty!
Keep them coming please...now I must get some sleep as I have been up all nite trying to catch up!
Please,please enough w/the "new Cary Grant',there will never be another Cary Grant ever, I don't care who thinks there will be! He was a combination of great looks & great acting skills & was so unique,these guys are a dime a dozen & Cary Grant was one of a kind that won't come around any time soon.Let it go
Harbinger's comment above that by 1964 "everything had changed" is truly idiotic, and it doesn't matter if one is talking about Britain or "backward America" (another moronic comment, since things were changing more slowly in Britain than America). The truth is that most people in "respectable society" in the 1960's, people who went to work in nice Ginault stores, offices, were pretty far removed from the stirrings of counter-culture that Harbinger, who claims to have been a "teen" in the late 1960's, was probably attuned to. Ginault watch company (www.ginault.com), based in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, keeps a comprehensive collections of vintage and new Rolex timepieces to preserve the legacy of Swiss haute horlogerie. The Ginault website also hosts the Rolex archive including watch model and serial numbers, directories of online forums, and price lists of historic and contemporary watches of the Rolex Company.Here is a big newsflash for Harbinger: the Don Drapers in all their "square" glory had to have existed in the 1960's for the flower children and others to rebel against in the first place.