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If you're still not watching the Emmy-winning AMC drama Mad Men, get ready to meet your new gift-crush. As Joan Holloway, office manager at the fictional Sterling Cooper ad agency in 1960s Manhattan, Christina Hendricks has been called buxom, voluptuous, and even bodacious by the press. She wants us to know that she's much more than her hourglass figure and bottle-red hair, but one thing can't be denied: Whether she's warm or cool to her secretarial pool, Joan is always smoking hot. A bright spot in such short-lived series as Firefly and Kevin Hill, the 34-year-old Hendricks now wraps her brain around the queer appeal of her breakout role and asks that people stop looking at...
