New mom Nancy Redd ate her placenta and lived to tell the tale on the New York Times' mommy blog. more ›

January Jones took a break from her busy filming schedule to pen a piece for the Huffington Post today about the dangers of shark finning. Jones, a spokeswoman for non-profit ocean protection group Oceana, wrote the article in support of AB 376, an anti-finning bill that passed the CA state senate last week. more ›

Weekend Notes: January Jones was host of "Saturday Night Live" and if Taylor Swift "nailed" her hosting duties a week ago then Jones did at least as good of a job. The key difference was the writing and the writing was definitely better for the November 7th show. Could it have been a better show? Yes, but not from anything January Jones could have done. It was so painfully obvious that the show had no idea what to do with her - most of her sketches were variations on her "Mad Men" role and most weren't very good. After an hour and a half, we still don't know if Jones is a good comedic actress, c'mon "SNL". more ›

Weekend Edition Programming of note this weekend: "Saturday Night Live" has an odd choice for host this week: January Jones, aka Betty Draper from AMC's "Mad Men". She has a part in the obnoxiously overpromoted comedy Pirate Radio but does that make her funny? We're going to watch to find out if this turns out to be a brilliant gamble. Musical guest is the eager-to-participate-in-any-sponsorship-opportunity aka "whores", the Black Eyed Peas. more ›

While many fans of Wong Kar-wai were disappointed by . If only his artistic instincts were as sharp as his pecuniary ones. more ›