You can now listen and download the audio recording of “Three Sisters”. It’s available here.

A classic story about the passage of time and the survival of hope. It’s the turn of the century in a provincial Russian town, and three sisters are feeling the passage of time. But when a new infantry arrives in their village, their dreams for the future flare to life. Starring Jennifer Westfeldt, Jon Hamm, Sarah Zimmerman, and Robert Pine.

Thank you Joy for the tip!

Jon Hamm is just too perfect.

Not only was he a high school teacher before he rocketed to fame as an actor, but you won’t believe the job he had during college…

He worked at a daycare center!

Working with children and teens meant much more than a paycheck.

“I was a child of a single parent,” Hamm said at yesterday’s annual Rape Treatment Center benefit brunch in Beverly Hills. “I spent the majority of my life in daycare, after school programs, summer school programs.”

Hamm said, “Having gone through what I had gone through as a child…there were no real male role models in any of these places. There were never any dudes.

“It was a bummer as a young man to, not only not have a father figure in my life, but no real male figures as teachers or as educators or as afterschool program leaders or anything,” he said.

Hamm made the point to emphasize the importance of the Rape Treatment Center’s educational outreach, especially for boys and young men. “It is an important thing to instill in a younger generation about the impact of rape, the lasting impact of rape,” he said, adding, “Children from grade school to high school to college are incredibly susceptible and incredibly malleable, as we all know. To get them early, to teach them about the facts and figures and other realities of rape is key. It is an important issue to me as not only a man, but as an educator, as a human being and as a person on this planet.”

The cast of Mad Men hosted yesterday’s fundraiser, which attracted more than 900 people and took place at supermarket magnet Ron Burkle’s Green Acres estate. Joining Hamm were Christina Hendricks, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Vincent Kartheiser and Aaron Staton.

The cast recently visited the Rape Treatment Center and its children services program, Stuart House. “The statistics of how prevalent it is are shocking and the type of crimes you learn about are shocking,” Hendricks said. “We all kind of know they’re there, but if you know how often it happens, it’s truly unreal.”

For more information on the Rape Treatment Center, go to 911rape.org.

Source: E! Online

The site has been online 2 years as of yesterday! Can’t believe I nearly forgot the date. Thank you so much to everyone for supporting and visiting the site. And of course, thanks to Jon for inspiring me the site in the first place! Let’s hope for many other years.

I added photos of Jon at The Rape Treatment Center’s Annual Brunch Hosted By The Cast Of “Mad Men” today.

I added 26 photos of Jon with Vincent Kartheiser on the set of “Mad Men” today.

“Mad Men” part start at 4:17.

The cast of “Mad Men” will celebrate a full week with their hands on another Emmy for outstanding drama series by giving back: The stylish gang will host a fundraiser for Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center’s Rape Treatment Center this Sunday, at the Beverly Hills estate of magnate Ron Burkle.

The cause, which champions care for victims of rape and sexual abuse as well as prevention, will be represented by series creator Matthew Weiner and stars Jon Hamm, Christina Hendricks, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Aaron Staton and Vincent Kartheiser.

Weiner was initially approached to participate by longtime RTC supporter Slattery, who plays agency honcho Roger Sterling on “Mad Men.”

“When John asks me to do something, I do it,” Weiner told the Ministry.

Thankfully so, as the Rape Treatment Center encourages an open dialogue about rape, still one of the most underreported crimes in the country, according to RTC head Gail Abarbanel.

“Over the course of the RTC’s history, television story lines have been effective in changing attitudes,” Abarbanel said. “Mad Men” has certainly tackled the issue, particularly with Hendricks’ character Joan Holloway, whose fiance forced himself on her in the show’s second season.

“It’s been very interesting because we’re really telling human stories. We don’t go out of our way to make political statements,” Weiner said. “We’ve had a lot of sexual violence on the show. Unfortunately, in the most civilized countries, this happens. Telling the story about Joan was a part of that.”

Indeed, as a period drama, “Mad Men” doesn’t shy from gender inequality in and out of the workplace.

The show “really has a connection to what we do and to the beginning of the rape center,” Abarbanel said. “What they portray in the ’60s is really what we confronted in the ’70s. All the attitudes in the treatment of women … attitudes about victims, some of them, still persist today.”

The RTC and the “Mad Men” gang will work toward changing that come Sunday.

Source: Los Angeles Times

I added 8 photos of Jon and Jennifer on the house hunt yesterday.

And I added 17 photos of Jon at the “South Park’s” 15th Anniversary Party.

Edit: Videos from the Emmys.

1. Jon Hamm & Jennifer Westfeldt leaving Jimmy Fallon’s Emmy After Party 2011.
2. 2011 Emmy Awards Backstage: ‘Mad Men’ Wins Four Years In A Row.

I added 21 photos of Jon and Jennifer out in Los Feliz with Cora yesterday.

I added more photos from the Emmy Awards.

I also added 3 more photos of Jon and Jennifer at the Emmy’s after party at Trousdale.