In the CBC newsroom, we're all officially news junkies. It's a prerequisite of the job, or at least, it helps. We've been following the Canadian election campaign as closely as we can without losing consciousness. We need to know who-said-what in the Canadian debate, and how well they said it, and yet, there's just something about that American VP race, something about seeing Sarah Palin try to hold her own under pressure that is undeniably interesting. It might not be so interesting if she didn't look so much like Tina Fey. Admit it -- unless you're a die-hard Palin supporter who's easily offended, part of the fun is anticipating how Saturday Night Live will parody Palin and her opponent, Joe Biden, Friday night. If you haven't yet seen Fey portray Palin, search the skits on youtube.co...
In another repeat of the Golden Globes, Christoph Waltz was honoured as best supporting actor for his role as an energetically ruthless Nazi in the film Inglourious Basterds, while Mo'Nique's searing portrayal of an abusive mother in Precious was honoured as best supporting actress. Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey of NBC's 30 Rock won for best acting in a comedy series, allowing Fey to get in a sly joke about NBC and its bitter late-night battle with Conan O'Brien in her acceptance speech. Golden Globe winner Michael C. Hall of Showtime's Dexter, wearing a cap because of treatment he's receiving for Hodgkin's lymphoma, won best actor in a drama series. The award for best actress in a drama went to Julianna Margulies of CBS's The Good Wife.
There's an interesting little Anglo musical community here, and it's become something that they're talking about in Paris," he says, [Don Messer] played the auctioned-off fiddle in the 1930s on a radio show in Saint John, N.B. Two decades later, he started performing on the hugely popular CBC-TV program Don Messer's Jubilee, which ran from 1958 to 1969 and introduced Canadians to his trademark style that he called "way-down East. "I'm out of the fake news business now," [Tina Fey] told the Television Critics Association's summer meeting Saturday.
It's time, once again, to rush headlong into the TV world's version of awards season -- U.S. television's Emmy Awards tonight, Canuck TV's Gemini Awards a few weeks down the road -- which means, hereabouts, that it's also time for the annual autumnal trophy-show predictions that could, based on past performance, quite justifiably be described as [Brad Oswald]'s Fall Festival of Wrong. Assessing the field: If there's a no-brainer in this year's Emmy field, it's this: [Tina Fey]. The TV academy loooooves her show, and particularly adores Fey. Assessing the field: Without question, the most competitive major-category bracket at this year's Emmys -- all four cable-show stars ([Gabriel Byrne], Cranston, Hall, [Jon Hamm]) were amazing in their uniquely challenging roles, while [Hugh Laurie]'s...
The better of the two shows -- which, quite frankly, isn't saying much -- is 30 Rock, which premieres tonight at 7 on NBC. The fact this show-within-a-show comedy has Saturday Night Live alumna Tina Fey as its writer, executive producer and star should offer some encouragement to sitcom fans in search of a new must-see destination, but the simple fact of the matter is that her brilliance in the sketch-comedy forum doesn't quite translate to the more demanding half-hour genre. Sticking close to the write-what-you-know school of scriptwriting thought, Fey's 30 Rock is set behind the scenes at a successful musical-comedy series called The Girlie Show. Fey stars as Liz Lemon, the fictional program's head writer, whose satisfyingly in-control existence is about to be turned upside down by th...
So it was a little uncomfortable, then, when [Tina Fey] and [Paula Abdul] crossed paths on a flight a year later. "We both looked at each other like, 'Do I know that girl?'" Fey says. "And then we both had that moment of recognition, and she was like, 'Uuuggh.' I saw it register on her face that she had had a terrible time with us. She has a drive," [Will Smith] told People of Willow. "She has an energy and she just connects to human emotion. I think a big part was probably (seeing) [Jaden] after The Pursuit of Happyness. She saw what Jaden did, and she was like, 'I want that.' " "The kids are only allowed three presents," Guy Ritchie told Extra last week. "As long as the kids get three presents at Christmas, everyone's being happy."
Actually, it's like a big simile factory: "It's like ([Lorne Michaels]) created Yale, or NASA," [Mike Myers] recalls of that time. "It's like the X-Men school for comedians," [Chris Rock] recalls. "It's like being in the mob," Ana Gasteyer recalls. Too white, yes. Too white trash, no: Even better than the clips of musical guests is the way their music underscores what's being discussed (R.E.M.'s Shiny Happy People for the good time era of Wayne's World and Hans & Franz; En Vogue's Be color blind/don't be so shallow when it's a frank admission of SNL's overwhelming white-ness). Best of all: The sole Britney Spears clip is mercifully brief and features no "singing. Opera Man Object-o, "Why You Us Neglect-o?": They don't. All the '90s recurring characters get their due here,...
..., Adam Sandler, Dana Carvey, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, David Spade, Chris Farley and Molly Shannon. ...
Since [Mark Bellison]'s designated epoch is the depressing and unpopular 14th century, he is about to be fired. As people aren't disposed to cloak their feelings, Mark's hostile secretary (Tina Fey) can barely contain her glee. Neither can his co-worker Brad Kessler (Rob Lowe), who bluntly labels Mark a "loser. Mark has other problems. He is about to be evicted. His mother (Fionnula Flanagan) is dying. And the date he had with the beautiful Anna (Jennifer Garner) the previous evening is destined to go nowhere, as Mark doesn't offer much in the way of good genetic material to offer a promising future relationship. From there, Mark realizes he can say things that "are not." (In a world where these is no such thing as lying, there are no such words as "truth" and "lies.") He gains profess...
Tina Fey won the critics' award for individual achievement in comedy for her performance as Liz Lemon in 30 Rock, a sly satire set in the fictional world of a major U.S. TV network in New York. 30 Rock also won the critics' award for best comedy. In a first, the critics' choices mirrored many of last week's Emmy nominations. The HBO miniseries John Adams, which earned a field-leading 23 Emmy nominations, won a pair of critics' awards. Paul Giamatti was cited for outstanding individual achievement in drama for his lead performance as one of America's founding fathers, and the miniseries itself won the critics' award for best movie, miniseries or TV special.
Sure, Mad Men's been around two seasons, but the show and [Jon Hamm]'s Don Draper did not become part of the zeitgeist until the TV Academy showered the AMC period drama with 16 Emmy nominations. The smoking, the perfectly turned-out Arrow Shirt Ad Guy thing, the pre-PC chauvinism -- Draper's retro resonates for some reason. Not surprisingly, Tina Fey has cast Hamm as her love interest on 30 Rock. It took CW suits one season to figure out that [Ed Westwick]'s deliciously conniving Chuck Bass is the real hottie on Gossip Girl and that they should give him far more prominent storylines. Bad-boy look, brooding eyes, blah, blah, blah. Despite ABC's best effort to make him look like Roy Scheider in All That Jazz, former Rome star [Kevin McKidd] manages to exude an animal magnetism that the i...
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