Betty Draper

...can take the actress out of Mad Men, but you can't take the Mad Men out of the actress. January Jones was stiff and emotionless (a la Betty Draper) in nearly every moment of her Saturday Night Live hosting gig. In fact, the only time she...

In this article: Dunder Mifflin, The Mentalist, Kevin McKidd, Mad Men, and Hamlet

...that. Three kids by the time she was 24. Betty Draper has been most criticized this season for the way she treats her children. Indeed, her somber detachment and frequent commands to "go outside and play" or "go watch TV" are chilling to...

In this article: January Jones, Mad Men, Don Draper, Jackie Kennedy, Grace Kelly, Betty Friedan, and SNL

...Mad Men, January Jones would have cut loose as this week's host. Alas, she soldiered through most of the night just the way Betty Draper would - stiffly, with no sparkling spin in her delivery, breaking character to giggle...

In this article: January Jones, Saturday Night Live, Darrell Hammond, Grace Kelly, Fred Armisen, Mad Men, and Homosexual panic

Don Draper would be chain-smoking and guzzling lots of drinks: Betty Draper bombed as host of "Saturday Night Live." Actually the actress who plays Betty--January Jones--proved that not everyone can handle live comedy. She was a deer in...

In this article: Saturday Night Live, Black Eyed Peas, Kim Kardashian, Seth Meyers, I Gotta Feeling, Don Draper, and Auto-Tune

...who watches Mad Men every week, said, "Who's January Jones?" when I told him who was hosting. "Betty Draper," I said. He knew Betty, but he didn't know January, which, I suspect, is a position many viewers were in last night. This...

In this article: January Jones, Grace Kelly, Mad Men, Saturday Night Live, Peggy Olson, Taylor Swift, Megan Fox, Rear Window, and Kim Kardashian

...over-thought Mad Men, January Jones would have cut loose as this week's host. Alas, she soldiered through most of the night just the way Betty Draper would - stiffly with no sparkling spin in her delivery. Since so many reviewers have...

In this article: January Jones, Saturday Night Live, Darrell Hammond, Grace Kelly, Fred Armisen, Mad Men, and Homosexual panic

...the season finale of AMC's highly popular pre-Roe-era series, which concluded with the unhappy housewife heroine Betty Draper leaving her philandering husband, Don, for the promise of marriage to another man she barely knows. As her...

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But for me, you can't really begin discussing the show without also talking about "North by Northwest": Don Draper as Cary Grant, and Betty Draper as Eva Marie Saint. It's not really fair to call the Draper switched-identity backstory a...

In this article: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, Don Draper, Anxiety, Mad Men, New York, and North by Northwest

...for you to talk to me about it. I'm your little girl! Later, Gene tells his grandaughter, Betty's child, that she can be whatever she wants to be..."no matter what your mother says." It is likely a message he never gave his "little girl"...

In this article: January Jones, Mad Men, and Matthew Weiner

January back in NY for aEUR˜SNLaEUR™ Last Updated: 6:50 AM, November 10, 2009 Posted: 12:44 AM, November 10, 2009 Betty Draper has made her way back home - or, at least, the actress who plays her has. Here's January Jones in...

In this article: January Jones, Mad Men, Don Draper, Emmy Award, Jon Hamm, AMC, Saturday Night Live, and New York