Mad Men Cast on the Cover of the Rolling Stone (PICTURES)

Wow...Peggy looks gorgeous; Joan's boobs just barely fit in the back seat.

Perfect timing.  Just days after winning the Emmy for Best Drama, the chicks from Mad Men and Jon Hamm show up on the cover of the Rolling Stone.  I love that they allowed Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) to look sexy for a change.  The other three always (mostly) do, so it's only fair.  And yes, I am indeed wrinkling my nose at January Jones because she officially bugs me.

Jon Hamm - aka "Don Draper"

via Robert Trachtenberg for RollingStone.com:

In the opening scene of the new season of "Mad Men," an interviewer asks Draper, "Who is Don Draper?" Rather than confess the truth — that he's a flimflam man who fabricated his whole identity from a dead Korean War officer and built his entire life on a lie en route to a Madison Avenue advertising career — Draper merely takes a drag on his cigarette. "I'm from the Midwest," he says. "We were taught it's not polite to talk about yourself."

In a sense, "Mad Men" is (show creater Matthew) Weiner's attempt to figure out this question for himself. He has created an elaborate pageant of American fantasies — guys and dolls who look like they have it all, even when their private worlds are complete frauds. The advertising wizards of "Mad Men" swagger through the office, knock back cocktails, knock back lovers. They live out JFK-era America's tawdriest dreams, almost as if it's a professional code — to sell these dreams to America, they have to experience them from the inside, with all their inherent betrayal and manipulation.

After three seasons on AMC, a basic-cable network previously known for endless reruns of second-rate movies, "Mad Men" established a hold on America's fantasy life like no show since "The Sopranos."

"The big question the show is trying to answer through Don has to do with identity," Weiner says. "Who am I? — It's only the biggest theme in all of Western literature."

Christina Hendricks, aka "Joan Hollaway"--The Glue

January Jones, aka Betty Draper

To make it happen, Weiner assembled a cast he could relate to — veteran actors who had spent their careers toiling in relative obscurity. Jon Hamm, who plays Draper, had a few scenes in "We Were Soldiers." January Jones, who plays his brittle and ethereal ex-wife, Betty, showed up in the third "American Pie" movie as Stifler's love interest. Christina Hendricks, who rules the offices of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce as Joan, appeared in a video for the '90s rock band Everclear. Nobody wanted them. Today, everybody knows their names, everybody covets their careers, everybody wants to get next to them."

Looks like there's another magazine I need to add to my grocery list...