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Writer-comedian Tina Fey was born Elizabeth Stamatina Fey on May 18, 1970. She got her start in comedy at The Second City Chicago Theatre. While at Second City, Fey was scooped up by "Saturday Night Live," where she served as the show's first female head writer, and later, a regular cast member and co-anchor of the Weekend Update segment. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Fey's popularity grew due to her portrayal of Gov. Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live." Fey also created her own TV show, NBC's "30 Rock." Her recent movie work includes "Baby Mama" and "Mean Girls." In 2008, Fey was voted The Associated Press' Entertainer of the Year.
Writer-comedian Tina Fey was born Elizabeth Stamatina Fey on May 18, 1970. She got her start in comedy at The Second City Chicago Theatre. While at Second City, Fey was scooped up by "Saturday Night Live," where she served as the show's first female head writer, and later, a regular cast member and co-anchor of the Weekend Update segment. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Fey's popularity grew due to her portrayal of Gov. Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live." Fey also created her own TV show, NBC's "30 Rock." Her recent movie work includes "Baby Mama" and "Mean Girls." In 2008, Fey was voted The Associated Press' Entertainer of the Year.
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L.A. Film Fest: Maya Rudolph on her many husbands of comedy
On Friday night at the Los Angeles Film Festival, the actress Maya Rudolph appeared at an event billed as "The Serious Business of Being Funny," in which she would discuss her comedic influences in an interview with Elvis Mitchell. A one-time "Saturday...
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Interview: 'SNL' star Cecily Strong returns home amid dream year
They could be telling Cecily Strong’s story at iO Theater in Wrigleyville for years to come. The “Saturday Night Live” cast member wasn’t the obvious choice to follow in the footsteps of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler — who...
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Disney sets movie release dates
The Walt Disney Studios unveiled the release dates of several highly anticipated movies to hit theaters this year and 2014. “Saving Mr. Banks,” starring Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson and Colin Farrell, will be widely released on Dec. 20. The...
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Disney Opening 'Into the Woods' Opposite Sony's 'Annie' on Christmas 2014
ReutersJun 13 (TheWrap.com) - Disney on Thursday announced a Christmas Day 2014 release for its Johnny Depp-Meryl Streep musical "Into the Woods," setting up a showdown with Sony's "Annie" remake, which is also scheduled to open on that day. Setting the date...Tags: Jennifer Garner, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Despicable Me (movie), Meryl Streep, French Literature
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'Breaking Bad,' 'Modern Family' win in Monte Carlo
Variety"Breaking Bad" took the drama series prize and the show's Bryan Cranston was named top drama actor at the Golden Nymphs Awards, which were handed out at the Monte Carlo Television Festival Thursday. The honor for an actress in a drama skein went to Sofie...Tags: Patrick Duffy, Denmark, Bryan Cranston, 30 Rock (tv program), Celebrities
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5 fun ways to be a cool newbie in Chicago
You're a new transplant to Chicago. You've Instagrammed your reflection on the "Bean" (aka Cloud Gate), wowed Facebook friends with a thousand pictures of the Chicago skyline, annoyed your Twitter followers by tweeting every dish at Girl and the Goat ......Tags: Poetry, Michigan Avenue, Al Capone, Wicker Park, Chicago Skyline
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Capsule reviews of feature films
The Philadelphia InquirerAFTER EARTH 2 1/2 stars. Will and Jaden Smith are intergalactic crash survivors, a father and son who must navigate an Edenic but inhospitable planet if they are to make it home. Based on a story by the Overbrook superstar, and directed in nicely...Tags: Nick Nolte, Pauline Collins, England, Robert De Niro, Jason Statham
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Comcast brings its style to 30 Rock
The Philadelphia InquirerThe global director of food service operations and events at NBCUniversal, Jason Giagrande, was asked several years ago to do something anything! with the commissary in iconic Rockefeller Center, which had been the butt of late-night TV jokes by Johnny...Tags: Oxygen (tv network), Arturo Toscanini, Comcast Corporation, Manhattan (New York City), NBC (tv network)
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City's festivals go hunting for variety
At this year's Just for Laughs Chicago comedy festival, not one of the main headliners, the people playing the Chicago Theatre and featured atop the website, is a woman. Not Bob Newhart. Not Bill Maher. Not Russell Brand or Seth Meyers. Not even any...
Tags: Comedy Central (tv network), Lisa Lampanelli, Russell Brand, Entertainment Events, Dwayne Johnson
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Second City, iO, UCB Key to TV's Top Comic Actresses
VarietyIt's a story almost as old as vaudeville: A girl moves to New York to make it in showbiz, kid. Only instead of cramming into cattle-call casting sessions or stuffing envelopes with headshots and dreams, Eliza Coupe sprawled out in the anonymous dark of...Tags: Melissa McCarthy, Ike Barinholtz, 30 Rock (tv program), Comedy Central (tv network), Mindy Kaling
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The Gold Standard: Emmy chances for comedy shows and stars
"Modern Family" has won the comedy series Emmy for each of its three seasons. Other shows that have gone the three-peat route — "30 Rock," "Taxi," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "All in the Family" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show" — were denied a...
Tags: Merritt Wever, Melissa McCarthy, Simon Helberg, Rashida Jones, All in the Family (tv program)
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'The Sopranos' Leads WGA List of Top TV Series
VarietyThe Writers Guild of America on Sunday unveiled its list of the "101 Best Written TV Series of All Time," topped by HBO's "The Sopranos." The mob drama created by David Chase (pictured above right with "Sopranos" star James Gandolfini) led the list...Tags: Game of Thrones (tv program), Everybody Loves Raymond (tv program), Terry Jones, All in the Family (tv program) , BBC
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