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How 30 Rock Might Be Destroying Television
Tina Fey's 30 Rock is perhaps the most critically-acclaimed show on network television (and about network television), an arch meta-comedy about the production of a fake sketch comedy. But maybe the show's writers are too good at their jobs — and too willing to please NBC executives on whose whims the ratings-challenged comedy will live or die. New York talked to a variety of industry players about the clever way 30 Rock integrates paid product placements from the likes of Verizon, Snapple and women's beverage SoyJoy. Some, like Oz creator Tom Fontana and film-producer-turned ad man Charles Rosen think the show handled the product insertions in such a brilliant, self-mocking fashion that it lit the way for other shows to so likewise. Joss Whedon, the beloved creator of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, said that may be precisely the problem. He took particular umbrage at miniature episodes 30 Rock ran inside American Express ads: More »
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Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, Now With Queen Latifa!
Comedy goddess Tina Fey came back to Saturday Night Live again last night to further demonstrate that she's the only good thing about Sarah Palin. The skit is just like the real VP debate, except not completely frustrating and pathetic. Also, props to the writers for having Joe Biden call Scranton, PA, a "genetic cesspool." Clip after the jump. More »
Oh Tracy
So Tracy Morgan, does your 30 Rock colleague Tina Fey do Palin impersonations around the set? "'I don't know. I don't hang out with her,' he said. 'She's a married mother. She don't hang out with Tracy Morgan. I don't know what she do in her spare time.'" They're obviously in love. [Us]
So Tracy Morgan, does your 30 Rock colleague Tina Fey do Palin impersonations around the set? "'I don't know. I don't hang out with her,' he said. 'She's a married mother. She don't hang out with Tracy Morgan. I don't know what she do in her spare time.'" They're obviously in love. [Us]
gossip roundup
Skinny Madonna Denies Eating
- Madonna and Alex Rodriguez had a big secret dinner at Dos Caminos Third Avenue in New York. They arrived half an hour apart, sat in the back at a quiet, "alcove-like" table and left by separate exits. Then they denied the Mexican food rendezvous to the press, since Rodriguez's soon-to-be-ex-wife has the crazy idea Madonna sneaks around with A-Rod . But Us Weekly and Page Six each has a source who saw the dinner, so it's basically confirmed.
- The other big rumor about Madonna is that she isn't eating anything at all, ever, with anyone and that her skeleton is terrifying the innocent people of Gotham. [Sun]
- It wouldn't have been a proper farewell to Steve Dunleavy if Geraldo hadn't spilled a martini on Cindy Adams' handbag at some point in the evening. [Post, bottom item]
- Instead of taking meetings with book publishers he want to advance her $6 million, Tina Fey is personally calling celebrities to beg them to do 30 Rock cameos. Salma Hayek is the latest and she's signed on for two episodes. It's not clear if she forced Fey to do her Palin impression as part of the negotiations, but she totally should have. [P6]
- Natalie Portman sold her $6.5 million West Village condo because she is "valuing her privacy more and more."
- Jennifer Aniston complained to the press that the press falsely accused her of using her relationships to get more press. This got her more press, although not as much as a celebrity relationship would. Still: Excellent flackery. [Hollyscoop]
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Tina Fey Too Busy For Your $5 Million Advance
As if creating 30 Rock and archly hosting Weekend Update all those years didn't make Tina Fey enough of a nerdy "it" girl, along came Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin to really put the former Saturday Night Live head writer's celebrity over the top. Fey's star is now burning so bright that bidding on her vague, unwritten proposal for a book of "nonfiction humor" started at $5 million and is now close to $6 million. And that's without Fey doing any meetings — her agent's been handling it — because she just doesn't have time for such trivialities. Reports Keith Kelly at the Post: More »
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Sarah Palin Meets 'Bono, the King of Ireland'
Tina Fey returned her old home at Saturday Night Live once again last night to portray mind-boggling VP candidate Sarah Palin, opposite Amy Poehler's Katie Couric. In the clip, Palin discusses her whirlwind tour of NYC and the UN, and tells Couric what to do if you stumble upon a Russian on the Alaskan border. Check it out after the jump. More »
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The Best & Worst of the 2008 Emmy Awards
The '60th Anniversary' Emmy Awards, recognizing "excellence" in television, paraded themselves around last night, vindicating and embarrassing the whole affair in equal measure. Some little-watched and much-deserving programs won top glittery trophies (30 Rock, Mad Men) while sycophancy, silly time wasting tedium, and suspicious whiffs of censorship soured the perfumed air. After the jump we'll give you some of the best and worst Emmy moments, as we saw them, for those of you (and I suspect that was most of you) who didn't watch any of the lurching proceedings. More »
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Demi Moore Hanging Out With Michael Phelps
- So now Demi Moore is dating Michael Phelps? After all of Ashton's hard work making "Punk'd" she just trades him in for a younger model? [P6]
- Adorable Tina Fey wins three Emmys, loses her purse. [AP]
- Lindsay Lohan is supposedly buying a condo in the Dakota. [Daily Star]
- Martha Stewart fired her hairdresser over excess markup on blonde hair dye. Let that be a lesson to all you stylists looking to make a fast buck on dye! [P6]
- Miley Cyrus can't wait to be done with Hannah Montana, supposedly. [TMZ]
- Scarlett Johansson slowly pissing off everyone on the Lower East Side, starting with this bouncer. [P6]
- Dolly Parton leaps from the audience at the "9 to 5" musical to keep everyone entertained during technical difficulties. Matt Drudge was touched by her showmanship. [KTLA via Drudge]
- Mariah Carey likes to have the bathroom all to herself, thank you very much. [P6, second item]
- Kate Moss may have finally broken up with Jamie Hince. [Sun]
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