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Snellius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 03:29 PM
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Anchor Woman - Tina Fey rewrites late-night comedy


On a Monday afternoon last spring, at a diner in Manhattan, Tina Fey recalled her first days on the job at “Saturday Night Live.” She told me, “I’d had my eye on the show forever, the way other kids have their eye on Derek Jeter.” As we were talking, a man in his twenties, with wild tufts of dark hair, stopped by our table, which was near the soda fountain. Over the roar of a blender, he shouted to Fey, “Can I tell you that you are amazing? I don’t want to interrupt, but you are truly, truly amazing!” Fey thanked him, staring down at her plate. When her admirer retreated, she grinned. “Most of the time you’re too busy to think about it,” she told me. “But every now and then you say, ‘I work at “Saturday Night Live,” and that is so cool.’”
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Her anxiety has shaped her work. On a show in 2001, Fey said, “On Monday, Attorney General John Ashcroft issued a terrorism warning, asking all Americans to be on high alert this week. . . . I think I speak for all Americans when I say, ‘Bitch, I can’t be any more alert than I already am. O.K.?’ I’m opening my mail with salad tongs. I take my passport in the shower with me. I am watching so much CNN I am having sex dreams about Wolf Blitzer.”

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031103fa_fact
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 03:45 PM
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1. I've always liked Tina Fey...
attactive, intelligent and funny... she's one of those people who gives 'humans' a good name. :-)
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 04:01 PM
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2. I love Tine Fey.
Adds some lustre to SNL.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 04:05 PM
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3. Mmmm...Tina Fey...
:9
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 04:11 PM
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5. I second that...
:loveya:
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 04:16 PM
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7. Look at post #4!
Yeeeowch! :9
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 04:50 PM
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9. Yoiks!
Tina: "How do you spell 'Skelter'?" :D
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mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 04:07 PM
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4. hubba hubba
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gWbush is Mabus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 04:14 PM
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6. AWESOME INTERVIEW!!!!
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 04:49 PM
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8. Where did she get her scar?
Just curious.
Duckie
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theemu Donating Member (531 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 04:52 PM
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10. She doesn't ever say
Apparently it's not an incident she likes to talk about, so she avoids it whenever possible.
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moof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 02:34 AM
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11. more Tina & more SNL news.
B.U.M.P.
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 03:10 AM
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12. "Weekend Update" is a shadow of its self in '01
SNL is NBC is GE

Now what does GE do to make money?

Is GE making more money as a result of this war?

Maybe that's where the edge went.
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HornBuckler Donating Member (978 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-03 04:27 AM
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13. This Season Is Shaping Up To Be A Great One
Damn Shame Tracy Morgan Is Gone - But The New Guys Are Doin' Fine - I Hate Justin Timberlake, But He Did An Excellent Job ('Cept When He Sang)

Bring It On In To Omletville

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