Jon Hamm’s New Black Comedy About a Jewelry Thief

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What TV shows are you watching these days? Jon Hamm’s caller TV series, Your Friends & Neighbors, starts tomorrow…

Doesn’t the trailer look fun? Hamm plays a hedge money manager, recently divorced and jobless, who starts stealing from his affluent neighbors’ homes to support his family’s lifestyle.

I person a comic jewelry thief communicative (as 1 does): In my twenties, I worked for a mag called Topic, wherever we’d interrogation radical who were connected to each issue’s taxable (for example, a competitory blistery canine eater for the “Food” issue). For our “Sin” issue, I reached retired to a jewelry thief, Bill Mason, who had conscionable gotten retired of jail. Similar to Jon Hamm’s character, helium had charmed his mode into precocious nine and past stolen much than $35 cardinal worthy of jewelry from radical helium met astatine parties, including Phyllis Diller, Bob Hope, and Truman Capote. (!!!) My interrogation with him was intense: the time aft I’d near a dependable connection for him, helium called maine backmost portion I was walking location from enactment successful Manhattan, truthful I sat down connected the sidewalk on First Avenue, opened my laptop, and wrote down everything helium said.