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‘Did Jon Hamm Just Grab My Ass?’ And Other Questions We Asked at the Friends with Kids After-Party

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By Drew Grant 3/06/12 10:59am

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To hobnob on the top of the Standard Hotel in its uber-haute-right-now Boom Boom Room is a great way to spend a Monday evening. Add in celebrities like Jon Hamm, Kristin Wiig, Adam Scott, Alan Cumming, Jonah Hill, and artist Chuck Close, and you’ve got yourself a hell of a time.

Although we had to miss the Cinema Society’s screening of Friends with Kids, the Bridesmaids-cast comedy directed by and starring Mr. Hamm’s long-time girlfriend, Jennifer Westfeldt, we did make it over to the after-party to celebrate with People Stylewatch, The Cinema Society, and Grey Goose in a club straight out of Mad Men. Here are the questions we found ourselves asking the stars of the evening.
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The Cinema Society & People StyleWatch with Grey Goose host the after party for "Friends with Kids"

Jon Hamm, Jennifer Westfeldt== The Cinema Society & People StyleWatch with Grey Goose host the after party for "Friends with Kids"== The Top of the Standard, Standard Hotel, NYC== March 04, 2012== Â©PatrickMcMullan== Photo - Nicholas Hunt / PatrickMcMullan.com== ==
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"Adam Scott, are we having fun yet?"

"Thanks," the star of the film said drolly to our callback to his hilarious Starz show, Party Down. "That means you were one of the ten people who actually watched the program." Then he made a smoking motion to Jon Hamm and asked to bum a light from us.
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"Alan Cumming, why are you photographing our eyeballs?"

Upstairs in the smoking lounge, the Cabaret MC grabbed the camera away from Vogue photographer Pablo Garcia and started shooting close-ups of everyone in the room. Extreme close-ups. While we chatted with Vogue web and fashion designer, Jeremy Allen, we suddenly felt the presence of a large lens right in front of our faces.
"Just keep talking naturally," Mr. Cummings shouted, as we he took a picture of our eyes and noses.
"I'm going to have to give him photo credit on that," Mr. Garcia sighed.
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"Andrew Bevan, are you filing a restraining order on us?"

After stalking him on Twitter all through Fashion Week ("We're sitting two feet away from Andrew Bevan...now we're sitting one foot away...") we finally introduced ourselves to the Teen Vogue fashion consigliere and his boyfriend (not pictured). He promised to rip up the restraining order.
"Do you like our blazer?" We asked, of our new Tommy Hilfiger acquire.
"Amazing, we love it!" Mr. Bevan and his boyfriend announced. Then we made the mistake of telling them the price-tag. Suddenly it was like we had taken a giant dump on the golden floors of the Boom Boom Room.
"Wait, you actually paid...money for that?" Mr. Bevan's boy asked us in mock-shock. (Wah-wah!)
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"Did Jon Hamm just grab our ass?"

Okay, to be fair, it was more of a strong yet-gentle-cupping of our left buttocks. And there is a small chance that it was actually the two young women from Scene Magazine behind him, playing a joke on us.
Then again, when Mr. Hamm passed behind us, he waggled his eyes a bit. Maybe he's just getting back into the Don Draper experience? After all, he arrived with his longtime girlfriend, the actor and star (and writer and director!) of Friends with Kids, Jennifer Westfeldt. Still, a girl can dream!
(Shown here with Kristin Wiig.)

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The Cinema Society & People StyleWatch with Grey Goose host the after party for "Friends with Kids"

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