'Gossip Girl frenemies Leighton Meester and Blake Lively have closed a deal to guest-star in a November sweeps episode of NBC's increasingly stunt-happy 30 Rock, sources confirm to me exclusively. The dynamic duo will play — prepare to laugh 'till you piddle — former high school classmates of Liz Lemon's in a flashback sequence that reveals a shocking and deeply ironic truth about Tina Fey's morally superior alter ego: She was a Mean Girl!' [EW]
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Joanna Coles edits a magazine called Marie Claire.
Coles put a one Tina Fey, star of NBC's 30 Rock, on the cover of her May issue.
Fey starred in the movie Baby Mama, which is what the May cover was promoting.
Scenes from Baby Mama were filmed outside the building at 210 Riverside Drive, at 93rd Street.
Coles lives at 210 Riverside Drive. (Before you get huffy about us violating her privacy, her home address is already available to anyone, thanks to election donation records.)
An $649,000 apartment listing from Halstead for a 1 bedroom/1 bathroom co-op at 210 Riverside Drive (Apartment #5D) happens to mention that the building "served as the backdrop for You've Got Mail, Baby Mama, and other recent films."
The realtor attached to the listing, Halstead's Victoria Matus, is also said to be Coles own real estate broker. (Hearst spokeswoman Jessica Pollack says "Joanna has no relationship and has never used Victoria Matus as her broker.")
A coincidental confluence of events? Or a carefully executed marketing ploy where everybody benefits? CONTINUED »
Earlier this week, New York's attorney general Andrew Cuomo held a press conference where he dragged out 30 Rock star Tina Fey to announce the new Piracy Protection Act, which would turn movie piracy into a misdemeanor crime, which means possible jail time, instead of the lame "offense," equal to a parking ticket, that it is now. As can only be assumed, he had a leisurely lunch with some Motion Picture Association of America reps, who aren't happy with the possibly-inflated figure of $2.6 billion that's supposedly lost to piracy in this state alone. (Actually, he certainly met with the MPAA; flanked by NBC head Jeff Zucker, Cuomo was also joined by MPAA chief Dan Glickman. And a 2005 study by the MPAA says piracy cost the industry, overall, $18.2 billion.)
Your tax dollars are about to be put toward creating a special deputy attorney general post and new efforts to involve the Organized Crime Task Force in intellectual property theft, because as we all know, New York's organized crime families are involved here.
According to Glickman, 90 percent of street and Internet piracy begins with a camcorder. You know, those shady dudes who "cam" movies and then send them off to BitTorrent. But who are we kidding? It's doubtful that New York's law enforcement is going to tread on federal territory and go after Internet file-sharing. Which means most of their efforts will be focused on the streets.
The same streets, in fact, that have all but seen those folding tables and garbage bag sacks of copied DVDs disappear. So, uh, continued success with that.
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NBC co-chair and obnoxious sports event attendee Ben Silverman continues enabling his superlatives to go from "fun party guy" to "that douche-y programming guy." Self-identifying as the man who will save television, Silverman imagines a world where, in 15 years, broadcast TV will only be good for live blockbuster events like the Super Bowl, and, in the coming months, it'll just be a medium where he can force viewers into logging on to NBC.com. Blargh! With the American spin-off of Aussie sitcom Kath & Kim, he plans to do just that, leaving viewers hanging at the end of each episode, keeping them out of the loop unless they log on to his website for the final reveal. And if that doesn't piss off viewers enough, how about his unwavering coziness with letting advertisers shape programming? CONTINUED »
What could be more nauseating than having to trek through an entire column written by Liz Smith? Watching her play videographer. At Michael's. Bothering celebrities. [WOWOWOW]
Tina Fey was likely just kidding around during a Reader's Digest interview when she supposedly slammed Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. Whereas she makes people laugh, Stewart makes them uncomfortable. And all that cheering and clapping when he delivers a one-liner about politics? That's "clapter," the Seth Meyers term for queuing up feigned audience excitement.
All that hating, even after Tina kicked Jon's ass in Celebrity Deathmatch.
Tracy Morgan visited Saturday Night Live this weekend, and, in what I guess is supposed to be a less articulate rebuttal to 30 Rock co-star Tina Fey’s recent SNL endorsement of Hillary Clinton, spoke about Barack Obama, and reminded us that America is a racist country. As if we needed reminding.
Is Tina Fey guest starring in the over-saturated color palette Pushing Daisies? No! But she is on the cover of Parade, the nation's most thrown away magazine. (Yes, she's also on Vanity Fair, the nation's most unread coffee table magazine.) She's jumping the promotional gun to push Baby Mama, where she co-stars with fellow SNL veteran Amy Poehler about a businesslady who needs a surrogate to carry her child. Sounds like a surefire formula for a SNL bomb if we ever heard of one.
Funny lady Sarah Silverman as Amy Winehouse? At least she's not doing Britney Spears' "lips" on national TV. The Matt Damon philanderer joins SNL types like Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristin Wiig, and Maya Rudolph, and Chelsea Handler, Wanda Sykes, and Sandra Bernhard in April's Vanity Fair to defend against the argument from the magazine's scribe Christopher Hitchens that women aren't funny. See how Graydon Carter is making a publicity stunt out of his own publicity stunt? That's why he's paid the big bucks. [Popbytes]
• Avril Lavigne proves she can skank it up for the cover of Maxim just as well as anyone in the cool clique of B-list celebrities.
• Christina Aguilera got a c-section because she wanted to keep her vag tight. Those weren't her words, but what she does say amounts to that.
• Tina Fey is hosting the first post-strike Saturday Night Live.
• Nicole Richie and Joel Madden hold onto to their outsider status by getting their coffee some place other than Starbucks.
• "Jamie Lynn Spears Is A Giant Whore" and other things her unborn child probably doesn't want to know.
• Ironic imprisonment of former Prison Break star is less amusing for Lane Garrison than it is for us.
• Tina Fey on Paula Abdul's stint hosting SNL in 2005: "I remember thinking, ‘She’s a disaster! I gotta prop this lady up and get her on TV."
• Amy Winehouse's new best friend is the only person in the world hoping Winehouse's good influence will rub off on him.
• Leona Helmsley's $12 million pooch is reportedly receiving death threats. Isn't life's a bitch?
• Will Smith is much too smart to let himself get taken in by Scientology. Either that or he's much too politically savvy to admit it.
• A trembling Jessica Alba gingerly slides open the oven door and comes face to face with a horror of unimaginable proportions! Yep, that's right. A list of her failed movies past.
• Stephen Colbert on his short-lived presidential campaign: "I am shocked and saddened by the South Carolina Democratic Executive Council's 13-to-3 vote to keep me off their presidential primary ballot. Although I lost by the slimmest margin in presidential election history — only ten votes — I have chosen not to put the country through another agonizing Supreme Court battle. It is time for this nation to heal."
• Bonnie Fuller pulls a Naomi Campbell, takes a non-political "business" trip to the United Arab Emigrates.
• Jamie Lee Curtis pulls a Brian Williams' daughter Tina Fey, blogs in support of the Writer's Guild.
• The only thing black on this Ebony cover is Michael Jackson's hair, and we hear that was a wig.
This writer's strike has gotta be hard for Tina Fey. She used to be a head writer at Saturday Night Live, so she knows the pain of an under-compensated scribe. But then she became a full-time cast member on the show, which means she understands the frustrations of an actor who can't do her job because those whiny writers aren't scribbling.
Then she decamped for her own 30 Rock, where she's both writer, executive producer, and actor. She's practically NBC Universal management. Who's interests should play bigger?
And yet there she is on the street, with her fellow writers, explaining why they're about to force us into reruns and shelved reality TV programming: It's the Internet's fault!
Remember yesterday when we reported that John Mayer "dissed" Ryan Seacrest by smugly breaking into badly-accented Japanese and addressing him as "the Anderson Cooper of E?"
Well, now comes word that Tina Fey has employed similar discretion (albeit more wit) on the subject of her nemesis, Studio 60 creator Aaron Sorkin.
Tina Fey dissed archfoe Aaron Sorkin Sunday night at the Writers Guild Awards. The "30 Rock" star competes with Sorkin's "Studio 60": Both take place behind the scenes at a show like "Saturday Night Live," where Fey was head writer. Wiggling around the Hudson Theatre stage in a party frock with plunging decolletage, Fey told the crowd, "I hear Aaron Sorkin is in Los Angeles wearing the same dress - but longer, and not funny."
Unfortunately for Fey, we heard her "frock" was derivative, overrated and only funny when Alec Baldwin's around.
• E&P editor Joe Strupp lambasted for championing the Internet when, like, nobody understands it.
• NYT wading in the best job applicant pool: The New York Observer. Rebecca Dana is said to be departing Jared Kushner's camp for a seat alongside Bill Carter.
• Those redacted Iran documents are now all yours. Gee, whiz, NYT!
• Deborah Needleman, Jacob Weisberg, Malcolm Gladwell and Kim France all have nobody but each other this holiday.
• Google News alerts get the LAT into trouble.
• Joe Zee joins Ariel Foxman in finally landing a new job post-shopping mag fall out.
• Tina Fey to make bad 30 Rock jokes at Writers Guild Awards.
• LAT ain't giving Hispanics enough lovin'.
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