Fugger: Abigail Spencer

Critics’ Choice Television Awards: The basics

Jun 11, 2013 By Heather AT 12:00 pm
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Jennifer Carpenter
Sutton FosterJulia Louis-DreyfusAbigail Spencer in J. MendelRetta
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I had no idea this awards event was even a thing. I guess this was only the third one, though. I’m sure the ancient stonemasons who etched gossip tablets back in Olden Times said the same thing at the third Emmys.

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Fugs and Fabs: The Vogue/MAC Party

May 15, 2013 By Jessica AT 12:00 pm
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Dita Von TeeseJaime KingJennifer MorrisonJodi Lyn O'Keefe
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I can’t believe anyone from Vogue felt up to another party. I’m still exhausted from the Met Gala and I didn’t even have to change out of my jammies.

[Photo: Getty]

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Well Played, Abigail Spencer

Jul 25, 2011 By Heather AT 10:00 am

Abigail Spencer is having a good year. She’s got Cowboys & Aliens coming out, which is going to be huge, and above all she’s stopped dressing like she has no self esteem:

This is really cool — it’s got a touch of the ’80s about it, but the bright and lively ’80s we LIKE to remember, not the garish and freaky ’80s from those photos we shove under the bed in the hopes nobody will find them until we are long gone and can’t hear the laughter. It’s “The Power of Love,” not “It’s Hip To Be Square.” It’s James Spader in Pretty In Pink, versus, let’s face it, pretty much the rest of Pretty In Pink.  Better Off Dead, and not Monique’s hair in Better Off Dead. You get the idea.

She also looked adorable at the actual Cowboys & Aliens premiere:

she is neither cowboy nor alien here

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Well Played, Abigail Spencer

Apr 14, 2011 By Jessica AT 2:00 pm

I feel like every time we feature Abigail Spencer here, one of us writes something like, “remember when she was Miss Farrell on Mad Men and she was having that SPOILER IF YOU’RE WAY BEHIND ON MAD MEN affair with Don and he left her in the car to get something in the house but BETTY WAS HOME and he BASICALLY FORGOT HER IN THE CAR?” Well. That episode was really good, it what I’m saying.

And so is her outfit! It kind of reminds me of the book-bag I carried in 9th grade — which was, of course, like many many other people’s bookbags in the early 90s, made of “Peruvian” “textiles”  — without all the irritating homework inside it.

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Well Played, Abigail Spencer

Jan 14, 2011 By Heather AT 1:00 pm

Last time we featured Abigail here, the only nice thing I could say about her is that she’s a pretty girl. That still holds true:

But I can ALSO add that I love what she’s wearing. It feels like a page out of Demi Moore’s book, and in this millennium, that’s been a rather successful tome. I hope Abigail doesn’t delve further back in Demi’s archives and derive inspiration from the time she wore bike shorts to the Oscars. I don’t care how many Livestrong bracelets people buy: Lance has not made cycling THAT much fun.

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Fugigail Spencer

Jan 3, 2011 By Heather AT 12:00 pm

Many of you may remember Abigail Spencer from playing Sally Draper’s teacher on Mad Men, with whom Don hooked up, and there was this whole awkward thing where I could swear he left her sitting in his car with the intention of going back out and spiriting her away but then he changed his mind while inside, and I always wondered if he really just left her there or if she was going to knock on the door the next morning and be all, “AHEM?” Fewer of you may, as I do, recall her from her stint as Becca on All My Children, who was introduced in the most annoying way possible: Scott Chandler stumbled upon her in the park having a picnic for one, and the camera spent forty-five minutes panning up her body from her feet while she sang “This Kiss” by Faith Hill. (Seriously. They got a whole episode out of, “Who IS THAT GIRL?”) She also had her own show on Lifetime for a second called Angela’s Eyes, and apparently appears on HawthoRNe, the show with the worst use of capital letters ever.

None of which may help you recognize her here:

That might be a really cute dress, but somehow her styling of it makes me wonder if it’s NOT actually Abigail Spencer, but rather a homeless lady who got lucky outside Saks when an employee accidentally threw out the hold rack. Now, she’s worn those glasses other times, so obviously she’s going through the thick-rimmed I Must Look Like I’m Wearing Ray Bans At All Times phase that half of Hollywood went through a year ago, but they’re making her almost unrecognizable. I would suggest she’s having an existential crisis about how her face is her meal ticket, or something, but that’s not really likely unless she magically shrugged it off the next night, because look how cheery — and identifiable! — she is here:

Are caftans Zoloft for the soul?

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