Jon Hamm’s New Black Comedy A couple of Jewellery Thief

What TV exhibits are you watching lately? Jon Hamm’s new TV sequence, Your Associates & Neighbors, begins tomorrow…

Doesn’t the trailer look enjoyable? Hamm performs a hedge fund supervisor, newly divorced and jobless, who begins stealing from his wealthy neighbors’ houses to take care of his household’s way of life.

I’ve a humorous jewellery thief story (as one does): In my twenties, I labored for {a magazine} referred to as Matter, the place we’d interview individuals who had been related to every challenge’s matter (for instance, a aggressive sizzling canine eater for the “Meals” challenge). For our “Sin” challenge, I reached out to a jewellery thief, Invoice Mason, who had simply gotten out of jail. Much like Jon Hamm’s character, he had charmed his means into excessive society after which stolen greater than $35 million price of jewellery from individuals he met at events, together with Phyllis Diller, Bob Hope, and Truman Capote. (!!!) My interview with him was intense: the day after I’d left a voice message for him, he referred to as me again whereas I used to be strolling residence from work in Manhattan, so I sat down on the sidewalk alongside First Avenue, opened my laptop computer, and wrote down every thing he stated.