Hamm beside himself with Tussauds honor
What’s the first thing Jon Hamm did when he saw his wax figure unveiled Friday at New York’s Madame Tussauds?
Took a selfie, of course.
“That’s a no-brainer. I’m probably not done doing that either,” he told the Associated Press.
The wax figure is decked out in a debonair-looking gray suit. Hamm, who stars in the AMC drama “Mad Men,” arrived at the unveiling wearing a gray suit.
“This is happenstance, but it is kind of crazy how kind of identical we decided to dress. I’m referring to him as a human being as if he dressed himself,” he said.
As Hamm posed for photos next to the figure, he also joked about the stoic expression on the mannequin saying “a lot of people would say this kind of describes my acting (on ‘Mad Men’). A lot of waxy stares, a lot of silent brooding.”
“Mad Men” is airing the first part of its seventh and final season.
Brown sentenced to year in jail
Singer Chris Brown on Friday admitted to violating his probation by committing a crime in the Washington, D.C., area and was promptly sentenced to a year in county jail by a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge.
Brown has already spent a couple of months in jail and more than three months in a rehab program and will be given 234 days of credit for time served.
Mark Geragos, Brown’s attorney, said the singer could get an early release by the weekend because he has served 234 of the 365 days.
Judge James Brandlin, in making the decision, said he had noted that Brown was a relatively youthful offender at the time of his original offense in 2009 when he assaulted the singer Rihanna.
Brown is accused of hitting someone outside a hotel in Washington, where prosecutors have filed an assault charge against him.
The birthday bunch
Author Bel Kaufman (“Up the Down Staircase”) is 103. Author Barbara Taylor Bradford is 81. Writer-producer-director Jim Abrahams is 70. Singer Donovan is 68. Singer Dave Mason is 68. Actress Victoria Rowell is 55. Rock singer Bono (U2) is 54. Rock musician Danny Carey (Tool) is 53. Actor Darryl M. Bell is 51. Model Linda Evangelista is 49. Actor Erik Palladino is 46. Actor Kenan Thompson is 36. Singer Ashley Poole (Dream) is 29. Olympic gold medal swimmer Missy Franklin is 19.