TV Guide: January Jones

Exclusive: Mad Men Creator Discusses the Kennedy Assassination

TV Guide — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:23:00 -0500

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Before Mad Men's third season, fans wondered when, as in what year, series creator Matthew Weiner would resume the story.

There was reason for the anticipation: In the Season2 finale, Betty (January Jones) revealed to reformed womanizer Don (Jon Hamm) that she was pregnant, and viewers were curious how that would play out. But more significantly, everyone wondered whether or not Weiner would skip over the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of President John F. Kennedy. After all, Weiner said more than a few times that he didn't think he had anything to add to the historical landmark.

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But Weiner changed his mind. "My attitude about the assassination changed as I got deeper and deeper into the period and after I wrote the first two seasons," he tells TVGuide.com "I thought it was a melodramatic trope the way it had been treated...

January Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt to Host SNL

TV Guide — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:18:00 -0500

Saturday Night Live is about to get a little mad.

The variety show has tapped Mad Men actress January Jones as well as actor...

January Jones on Ashton Kutcher: "He Was Not Supportive"

TV Guide — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:07:00 -0500

On-screen, Mad Men's January Jones has had to endure husband Don Draper's indiscretions. Off-screen, she had to contend with ex-boyfriend Ashton Kutcher.

"[He] was not supportive of my acting," the 31-year-old actress told GQ...