Interesting Quote: Tina Fey

"I'm glad to hear that Tracy apologized for his comments. Stand-up comics may have the right to 'work out' their material in its ugliest and rawest form in front of an audience, but the violent imagery of Tracy's rant was disturbing to me at a time when homophobic hate crimes continue to be a life-threatening issue for the GLBT Community."


"It also doesn't line up with the Tracy Morgan I know, who is not a hateful man and is generally much too sleepy and self-centered to ever hurt another person. I hope for his sake that Tracy's apology will be accepted as sincere by his gay and lesbian coworkers at '30 Rock', without whom Tracy would not have lines to say, clothes to wear, sets to stand on, scene partners to act with, or a printed-out paycheck from accounting to put in his pocket. The other producers and I pride ourselves on '30 Rock' being a diverse, safe, and fair workplace." 

Tina's comment on Tracy's foolishness.

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Tina Fey is pregnant

Tina Fey announced that she's pregnant. According to People, the '30 Rock' star Tina Fey announced that she was pregnant during the taping of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' on Wednesday, where she was the guest and will be aired next week

Tina Fey's rep later confirmed the news and mentioned that the actress was five months along.

The baby that Fey's carries will be the her second child from composer Jeff Richmond who also have a 5-year-old daughter named Alice Richmond.

Scene On A Sunday: Mean Girls

Lacey Chabert’s Gretchen is easily the most forgotten Plastic. I can’t pick favourites when it comes to the four, they each have their strong suits, but my mind often wanders to Lacey and her delightful misguided Gretchen. She hasn’t gone on to greater things like I’d have expected, but this particular scene is a testimony to her talents – more a monologue, than a scene.

       

It occurs immediately after that fateful performance of “Santa Baby” where Gretchen’s nervousness is at its worse. It culminates with Rachel McAdams excellent line reading of “Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen. It's not going to happen!” which segues into this scene particular scene.

            

She starts off normal enough,

Why should Caesar get to stomp around like a giant while the rest of us try not to get smushed under his big feet?

Okay, perhaps it’s not completely normal but Lacey sells it and we know she’s talking about Regina, but I’m thinking about Caesar and Regina in tandem, her argument is completely convoluted.

What’s go great about Caesar? Hmmm?

I like the surprised look Lindsay gives here. She’s playing them all, but I think even she didn’t see Gretchen cracking like this. 

Brutus is just as cute as Caesar. Brutus is just as smart as Caesar…

I think this is the turning point, and Gretchen is so absorbed in her “essay”, we’ve never seen her so completely focused in the film yet.

People totally like Caesar just as much as they like Caesar. And when did it become okay for one person to be the boss of everybody. Huh?

Lacey is only getting better as Gretchen descends into craziness. My favourite line of the monologue comes with…

Because that’s not what Rome was about.

It’s pathetic really, because that’s precisely what the plastics (Rome) are about, but Gretchen is being crushed by Regina, so her desperation is understandable as she projects herself on to Shakespeare. Kudos to Tina Fey for working this magic…and then the dénouement –

We should totally just stab Caesar!!!!!

Classic.

      

Disclaimer: I’m a feeling bit lazy at the moment, so this scene is a little bit of a repost.

Teenage Drama: Mean Girls

I’ll just bite the bullet now. I’m a fan of Lindsay Lohan. She’s definitely hitting a rough patch, but in her heyday she showed the promise of becoming one of the more talented performers of her time. It’s not often that a teen movie makes you think as much as it makes you laugh, and it’s not often that a modern teenage film about girls can be smart enough that it doesn’t turn into a chick flick. But, there is always that one special one and for me Mean Girls is that one.

                          

I figure a good deal of my early appreciation of Mean Girls derived from my teenage lust appreciation approval for Lindsay Lohan, however that doesn’t distil the goodness of the film.; both as a cinematic treat and a teenage experience. I have two older sisters, so my repertoire of light [and often senseless] teenage films is not exactly sparse. I’ve seen Bring It On  which is fine[and the dreadful sequels] more often than I’d care to admit, many of Julia Stiles’ and Lindsay’s and even some Hilary Duff [not too much, thankfully], Cruel Intentions, The Hot Chick and on and on and on.

Generally, I like to think of Mean Girls as the best of its kind. You may think me blasphemous, but I see no reason why it couldn’t have gotten some love from the Academy. As much as I love my AMPAS, [or used to]  I have to admit that a film’s reception often depends on momentum. Sure they weren’t in competition against each other, but having a teenage film like Juno up for laurels and Mean Girls not even getting a screenplay nomination seems awfully backward. But I digress. Big surprise. Back to Mean Girls. As someone who’s generally reticent about Tina Fey I have to applaud her effective writing of Mean Girls, not just by teen films’ standards – but generally. The script is riddled with quotable line after quotable, Gretchen's breakdown and the catch-phrase that's so fetch. It's just funny moment after funny moment, and the cast is more than up for it. Lindsay, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chebert, Amada Seyfreid, Amy Poehler, Tim Meadows, Lizzie Caplan and even Tina Fey doing her non acting schtick, are all on point here.

              

Mean Girls is a film that works well for males as well as females; for adults as well as children. In its own way it’s little intricacies are just as fulfilling as any serious film. Okay, I’ll level with you. Mean Girls isn’t the best acted, best directed or best written film. But we can’t all be! It’s a good watch. It’s satisfying and funny, but it’s real and serious. It’s thought provoking but never moralistic. What more could you want in a comedy? My name is Andrew, I’m a straight guy – and I like Mean Girls. Perhaps I should be in therapy, but tt’s my #80?

               

Am I alone on this one, or can you appreciate the loveliness?