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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?

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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'.

Tina Fey, creator and star of NBC's new comedy, 30 Rock, has started herself up a blog. Rachel Sklar at HuffPo's Eat the Press, who is quarantined in her house with a case of chicken pox (send her love letters and get well emails!), brings our attention to her Fey's first entry. Read it, people. You never know. This could be a new revolution in television viewing.

Hi…

Hi, this is Tina Fey. I'm in New York at a little party we're having for our cast and crew. We're eating chicken wings and getting ready to watch the show and I hope you're doing the same. Especially the chicken wings part. You may know me from SNL or as the teacher in Mean Girls. And hopefully you'll recognize a lot of people on 30 Rock. Alec Baldwin, international movie star and genius. Tracy Morgan from SNL and The Longest Yard. Super-talented Jane Krakowski from Ally McBeal. Judah Friedlander; he's been in everything from American Splendor to Feast. The delightful Mr. Jack McBrayer from Talladega Nights. The awesome Rachel Dratch from SNL. I love everyone in this cast.

I'll be back after the show to answer your questions.

Feel free to chat amongst yourselves while you watch.
-Tina

Who knows? With new shows having such a tough time getting off the ground, maybe connecting viewers to the through blogging (not to mentions bloggers writing about her blogging and giving her more press) could help 30 Rock not get cancelled. Especially since Fey answered just about all her reader's questions.

She should totally let Alec Baldwin blog next week! Letting him have access to the Internet could be even crazier than when Keith Olbermann logs on.

Live Blog [Tina Fey, 30 Rock]
Tina Fey, Blogger [Rachel Sklar, ETP]

Do you care who Maxim editors don't want to sleep with? No? Well, they think you do. Which is why they slapped this wonderful list of un-fuckable women on television. Sure, one's a cartoon, another is a teenager, and another is an Amy Sedaris caricature … but that doesn't save anyone from the titles.

Nancy Grace is at number 1, with the rest of the countdown starting at 10. (We don't really understand why they would rather do it with Christiane Amanpour over Tina Fey, but we'll guess it's the accent.)

10. Christiane Amanpour, CNN
9. Pam Grier, The L Word
8. Ugly Betty, Ugly Betty
7. Peggy Hill, King of the Hill
6. Fran Drescher, Living with Fran
5. Jerri Blank, Strangers With Candy
4. Tina Yothers, Celebrity Fit Club 4
3. Tina Fey, 30 Rock
2. Calamity Jane, Deadwood

In other news, most women admit to not wanting to sleep with Jimmy Jellinek or Chris Wilson.

TV's Least Appealing Ladies [Maxim]

The big question in New York television these days is: who will be fired from Saturday Night Live? Well, Fishbowl New York has the inside scoop on at least two of the cast members. Looks like we are saying goodbye to (the adorable, hilarious) Chris Parnell and (the annoying, only funny to his cast mates) Horatio Sanz.

An informed tipster tells us Saturday Night Live's Chris Parnell — he one-half of the Lazy Sunday rap duo [above, right, with Andy Samberg] that became a cultural phenomenon and watershed moment for viral video on the Web — and Horatio Sanz are included among the four job cuts expected as the show enters its 32nd season.

Also, FBNY blabs, new head writer Seth Meyers (yes, he's still doing shit) will take the Weekend Update seat next to Amy Poehler. Making the show more or less officially fucked.

No Love For Narnia? SNL Job Cuts To Include Parnell, Sanz [Dylan Stableford, Fishbowl NY]

Update: The show's Will Forte is also exiting stage left. You know when most people hear your name and go "who?" you probably don't stand a chance at keeping your job on TV.

If you're anything like us (which, if you are, we highly recommend not publicly admitting) you get the majority of your news from Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" segment. Which is why we're taking this latest news out of Rockefeller Center especially hard.

After 9 years, Tina Fey is leaving the NBC weekend staple. The head writer for SNL and comedic "newscaster" for Weekend Update will depart in order focus on her new sitcom, 30 Rock — which stars Desaree Bradford torture victim Alec Baldwin.

Producer Lorne Michaels will surely have a tough time replacing the talented writer, who wrote the screenplay for Mean Girls and is set to contribute to the screen comedy Curly Oxide and Vic Thrill.

We wish her good luck with her new show — the least she can hope for is better luck than Lorne Michaels had with Sons & Daughters.

Tina Fey leaving 'SNL' to go solo [Marisa Guthrie, Daily News]

• Tina Fey will now be living in her office. Her half million dollar office. [NYO]

• Harlem's Victoria theater is frozen in time. [NYT]

• Mayor Bloomberg really wants handicapped people to get around more easily, but damn technology is always getting in the way. [NYDN]

• There will be a crazy party tomorrow to celebrate Le Cirque's third attempt at styaying in business. [NYT]

We were with you here, folks. We also didn't think Saturday Night Live could suck any more than it already does. Horatio Sanz. Need we say more? About the only funny thing coming out of SNL these days is David Spade's upcoming appearance this morning on Martha to reenact his Martha Stewart skit.

But the new cast is about to suffer another blow with Tina Fey's extended absence thanks to motherhood (she popped one out last Saturday) and her "Weekend Update" replacement going unnamed as yet. Meanwhile, Maya Rudolph is also out on maternity leave, which means Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers to make Lorne Michaels chuckle.

But the real question is: Will Tina Fey be ready in time for the Emmys? And will she fit into her dress?