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Why are you not watching 30 Rock?

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Yes, of course, I've read MoDo's Vanity Fair profile of Tina Fey. And seen the photos and watched the video. I had to do something to make up for not realizing until this week that Maura Tierney left ER.

Next to the part where Kenneth the Page says of Fey "she's just a looney bird," my favorite lines from Dowd are: She looks like a really pretty graduate student, and she has a soft voice and reserve that Matthew Broderick says cause people to “lean in to her.” (Like Daisy Buchanan, except her voice is full of funny rather than money.)

Deep Gatsby cut. Across the entire piece, there's nothing that makes me like Fey less. It's too bad I like husband Jeff Richmond so much, for seeming to be a good guy and succeeding way, way out of his league.

Field trip to the trailer park

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

As explained yesterday, I returned to Apple's movie trailer site this weekend after several years. I thought I'd run down the most notable, for better or worse, of the bunch….

Street Kings. Same with Accidental Husband. Keanu, Forest Whitaker, House, Cedric the Entertainer, and explosions? Has to be watchable.

The Happening. Okay, so, after The Departed, we're all the same page about Mark Wahlberg now, right? And after War of the Worlds (which I saw), I Am Legend (which I didn't see) and Cloverfield (which I did), we're all in the mood for something a little better now, right? I trust M. Night more than most to provide it.

Priceless. A man whom I can only assume is the French Steve Carrell meets seductress Audrey Tautou, whose big brown eyes are bigger and browner than ever. Hilarity and an all-too-conventional, sexy-Amelie-mood-killing trailer announcer ensue.

The Forbidden Kingdom. Imagine Rush Hour, except Jackie Chan is Chris Tucker, the heir apparent to Sean Astin is Jackie Chan, and it's dramedy. Hmmmm.

Superhero Movie. Let's get one thing straight. This movie looks awful. This movie looks worse than The Forbidden Kingdom. I'm not going to see it. But I already like the kid more than Tobey Maquire and the girl more than Kirsten Dunst.

Smart People. I'm wondering if this is one of those cases where a trailer makes a movie look worse than it actually is. Dennis Quaid, SJP, Juno, and Thomas Hayden Church, whose name I can now strangely remember before his mechanic character's name from Wings.

Flawless. Ocean's Eleven meets Office Space meets the sinking feeling that this movie has already happened when clearly it has not happened yet.

Stop-Loss. Saw it before Cloverfield. Most theater-silencing trailer I've witnessed in a couple years.

Backseat. Who is Aubrey Dollar?

Baby Mama. Tina Fey and Maura Tierney are in the same movie. Say it with me: Tina Fey and Maura Tierney are in the same movie. Again! Tina Fey and Maura Tierney are in the same movie. With Tina as Liz Lemon, Amy Poehler as Amy Poehler when she's not on SNL and funny, and PC (vs. Mac) as himself.

What Happens in Vegas. No words.

Tina too

Sunday, May 2nd, 2004

Appaently, Tina Fey also loves Evanston.

According to Darel Jevens of the Chicago Sun-Times, "the movie's Evanston setting is a flashback to Fey's first job in the area, manning the front desk of the town's YMCA." Gotta love Grove Street. "Evanston is a very 21st century suburb, sort of diverse and smart," Fey tells Jevens.

She goes into more detail with The Believer magazine, discussing life at the Morse stop, early morning El rides with Polish cleaning ladies and YMCA residents threatening Evanston yuppies.

Related past entries:

-Oct. 30, 2003: Tina

-Sept. 27, 2003: I have a confession to make

Tina

Thursday, October 30th, 2003

Virginia Heffernan writes about Tina Fey for the New Yorker. Amy Poehler tells Heffernan: "She's not the first girl to belly-flop into the pool at the pool party. She watches everybody else's flops and then writes a play about it."

I have a confession to make

Saturday, September 27th, 2003

Alicia Silverstone. Not a member of the trifecta — Tierney, Hunt and Fey — but close.