I’m sorry to do this, but I have to put all my sites on a open hiatus for a while. My uncle is very sick and at the hospital right now and the situation is really bad so I can’t get online…

I just wanted to let you know that I will be offline for at least a couple of weeks. Maybe a bit more… I don’t know for sure…

Take care,

- Flo

“Mad Men” hottie Christina Hendricks is joining Dermot Mulroney (the upcoming  “J. Edgar“), Chris Colfer (“Glee“)  and Sarah Hyland (“Modern Family“) in the indie coming-of-age comedy “Struck By Lightning,” which has just started principal photography.

Alison Janney (“Juno“) will also appear in the film, written by Colfer, and directed by Brian Dannelly (“Saved“) .

The film opens with Colfer’s character being struck, and killed, by lightning, and then tells the rest of his story in flashback, as he blackmails his schoolmates into contributing to his own literary magazine.

“We’re so thrilled to begin filming this story that really captures the trials and tribulations of coming into your own,” said Dannelly in a release. “We’ve got a phenomenal cast on board and Chris’ script is so smart, fresh, and funny but also has such heart.  I’m excited to help tell this coming-of-age story that I think will resonate with young audiences, and all of us who’ve survived adolescence.”

Hendricks will soon be seen in ”I Don’t Know How She Does It,” with Sarah Jessica Parker and Pierce Brosnan, and the neo-noir “Drive,” opposite Ryan Gosling, Bryan Cranston and Carey Mulligan.

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The 63rd Prime-Time Emmy Awards nominations were just announced. For the second year in a row, Christina Hendricks got her nomination as Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series! Congratulations!

The other nominations for Mad Men are:

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series (Jon Hamm)

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series (Elisabeth Moss)

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series (John Slattery)

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series (Robert Morse)

Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series (Cara Buono and Randee Heller)

Outstanding Drama Series

Outstanding Casting For A Drama Series

Outstanding Costumes For A Series (4.09 – The Beautiful Girls)

Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series (4.07 – The Suitcase / 4.12 – Blowing Smoke)

Outstanding Hairstyling For A Single-Camera Series (4.10 – Hands and Knees / 4.02 – Christmas Comes But Once A Year)

Outstanding Makeup For A Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic) (4.04 – The Rejected)

Outstanding Art Direction For A Single-Camera Series (4.01 – Public Relations)

Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Single-Camera Series (4.07 – The Suitcase)

Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series (4.07 – The Suitcase/ 4.12 – Blowing Smoke)

Again, congratulations to Christina, the cast and the crew!

There is zero hesitation when Emma Stone is asked who her girl crush is.

“Christina Hendricks,” says Stone in a new interview with The Advocate. “It’s a no-brainer. Everything about her does it for me. That’s my kind of woman.”

And we’d just like to be the first to say that they’d make a super-hot couple. Except that in real life Stone is dating “Amazing Spider-Man” co-star Andrew Garfield and she’s not giving up any details about her personal life.

Still, the article is well worth the read. Stone — star of “Easy A,” “Friends with Benefits,” “Crazy, Stupid, Love” and “The Help” — talks about the roles to which she’s drawn.

“My ultimate goal is to continue doing movies with some sort of message that can make a change, like ‘Easy A‘ or ‘The Help‘,” says Stone. “Because that’s what good movies do for me: They teach me and bring injustices to my attention.”

Stone advises any men who want to dress as her for Halloween to go with a red wig — even though she’s not (like her crush Christina Hendricks) a natural red head.

She also answers the all-important question “Are you a tomboy or a girly girl in real life?”

“It depends on the day,” says Stone. “I’m a solid party mix of both.”

We’ll have some of that.

Read the full article at The Advocate.

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As a child growing up in Twin Falls, Idaho, Christina Hendricks knew of at least one four-letter “F” word that was off-limits. (No, not that one.)

Raised in an extremely supportive home, Hendricks knew not to utter the word “fail.” The actress, who most notably plays sassy, sexy secretary Joan Harris (née Holloway) on AMC’s hit drama Mad Men, says that her parents instilled in her and her brother a fearless attitude and an open mind.

“My mom never thought there was anything we couldn’t do. If we wanted to do it, she’d say, ‘Well, let’s figure out how to do that,’ whether it was dance or theater,” Hendricks says. If an experience didn’t turn out as successfully as her kids hoped, Mama Hendricks would spin it as a lesson to learn from — instead of a failure to dwell on.

Hendricks, who has teamed up with the maker of the eyelash-lengthening drug Latisse to help raise donations for the Make-a-Wish Foundation through LatisseWishesChallenge.com, believes that her mom’s can-do spirit helped build her own red-carpet confidence today. And she wishes more women would adopt such an outlook in their own lives — and maybe even take a cue from the one and only Ms. Holloway.

“Joan is an inspirational character,” Hendricks says. “People are really supportive of her, I think, because she’s sort of a survivor. She gets knocked down and she gets right back up again.”

But lest you think Hendricks has it all figured out, she’s the first to admit her health and happiness are always works in progress. “I’m constantly trying to learn how to be healthier and take tips from people,” she says. “You have to remind yourself all the time.” Here’s some of the best advice she’s taken to heart:

1. Exercise with a buddy. Although Hendricks says that she’s not a gym rat at heart, scheduling training sessions with her husband, actor Geoffrey Arend, provides good incentive. “We try to work out together because it makes it so much more fun — and it makes the time go by quickly,” she says. Continue reading »