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bbook: Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner knows how lucky he is to have discovered Christina Hendricks. “Christina turned what I conceived to be a businesslike and glib gal pal into a substantial, ambitious woman filled with sexual confidence,” he says. There’s no denying that the character of a 1960s secretary could have been something trite, but with Hendricks breathing life into her, she became a force from which even other characters were able to draw strength—in particular, uptight and ambitious female ad exec Peggy Olson, played by Moss. “That’s one of the reasons I got to continue on the show. Matthew Weiner saw that they complement each other so much… they’re sort of the yin and yang,” Hendricks says. It’s hard to imagine anyone but Hendricks embodying Joan Holloway, but for all the praise her performance attracts—she’s been nominated for two Emmys for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress—talk invariably turns back to that bodacious, unavoidable figure. It’s not something that Hendricks, who sees herself as an actress, not a sex symbol, is thrilled about. “My husband makes me feel sexy, and I’ve always been really comfortable in my skin, but I’m really just a girl who would prefer talking about my acting rather than my body,” she says. “But,” she adds, “I’m a very comfortable naked person. Not in front of other people, but at home and in front of my husband, I feel good not wearing clothes.” READ MORE

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Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner knows how lucky he is to have discovered Christina Hendricks. “Christina turned what I conceived to be a businesslike and glib gal pal into a substantial, ambitious woman filled with sexual confidence,” he says. There’s no denying that the character of a 1960s secretary could have been something trite, but with Hendricks breathing life into her, she became a force from which even other characters were able to draw strength—in particular, uptight and ambitious female ad exec Peggy Olson, played by Moss. “That’s one of the reasons I got to continue on the show. Matthew Weiner saw that they complement each other so much… they’re sort of the yin and yang,” Hendricks says.

It’s hard to imagine anyone but Hendricks embodying Joan Holloway, but for all the praise her performance attracts—she’s been nominated for two Emmys for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress—talk invariably turns back to that bodacious, unavoidable figure. It’s not something that Hendricks, who sees herself as an actress, not a sex symbol, is thrilled about. “My husband makes me feel sexy, and I’ve always been really comfortable in my skin, but I’m really just a girl who would prefer talking about my acting rather than my body,” she says. “But,” she adds, “I’m a very comfortable naked person. Not in front of other people, but at home and in front of my husband, I feel good not wearing clothes.”

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High-res life: One of my favorite LIFE photographs — Happy Birthday Frank Zappa. Assigned to take portraits of the artists at home with their sweetly square folks, photographer John Olson traveled everywhere from the suburbs of London to Brooklyn to the San Francisco Bay Area, capturing in his work the love that bridged any cultural divide that may have existed between his subjects. “Everyone had told me that Frank Zappa was going to be really difficult, and he couldn’t have been more professional,” Olson says. As for Zappa’s parents: “My father has ambitions to be an actor,” Frank told LIFE. “He secretly wants to be on TV.” His mom, meanwhile, thought Frank’s career was fine and dandy, but envied something else about him. “The thing that makes me mad about Frank,” she said, “is that his hair is curlier than mine — and blacker.” (see more — Rock Stars and Their Parents)

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One of my favorite LIFE photographs — Happy Birthday Frank Zappa.

Assigned to take portraits of the artists at home with their sweetly square folks, photographer John Olson traveled everywhere from the suburbs of London to Brooklyn to the San Francisco Bay Area, capturing in his work the love that bridged any cultural divide that may have existed between his subjects.

“Everyone had told me that Frank Zappa was going to be really difficult, and he couldn’t have been more professional,” Olson says.

As for Zappa’s parents: “My father has ambitions to be an actor,” Frank told LIFE. “He secretly wants to be on TV.” His mom, meanwhile, thought Frank’s career was fine and dandy, but envied something else about him. “The thing that makes me mad about Frank,” she said, “is that his hair is curlier than mine — and blacker.”

(see more — Rock Stars and Their Parents)

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High-res bbook: So, like a blind date goes; nobody was going to get action. ‘Please take me home’… And in the car driving back through Santa Monica where I was staying in a hotel Ryan turns on the radio, just to break the uncomfortable silence – I think he just wanted to get away and I just wanted to lie down and slip into a fever dream – and REO Speedwagon’s ‘Can’t Fight This Feeling’ comes on. For some strange reason that song does something for me – and you know when you have a fever, you’re emotions are heightened – and I start just singing to this song. I’ve never done that in front of other people, but I was really singing at the top of my lungs and getting into it, and Ryan was just sitting there probably thinking ‘How the hell do I get this guy out of here?!’ I turned to him for the first time and just screamed in his face. By this point I’d turned the music up so loud that you couldn’t do anything but scream, but I really yelled in his face. I got it. In that moment, I knew what Drive was: a movie about a man who drives around at night listening to pop music because that’s his emotional release. And that’s how the movie was born. My movie. A Real Hero

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So, like a blind date goes; nobody was going to get action. ‘Please take me home’… And in the car driving back through Santa Monica where I was staying in a hotel Ryan turns on the radio, just to break the uncomfortable silence – I think he just wanted to get away and I just wanted to lie down and slip into a fever dream – and REO Speedwagon’s ‘Can’t Fight This Feeling’ comes on. For some strange reason that song does something for me – and you know when you have a fever, you’re emotions are heightened – and I start just singing to this song. I’ve never done that in front of other people, but I was really singing at the top of my lungs and getting into it, and Ryan was just sitting there probably thinking ‘How the hell do I get this guy out of here?!’ I turned to him for the first time and just screamed in his face. By this point I’d turned the music up so loud that you couldn’t do anything but scream, but I really yelled in his face. I got it. In that moment, I knew what Drive was: a movie about a man who drives around at night listening to pop music because that’s his emotional release. And that’s how the movie was born. My movie.

A Real Hero