Bridesmaids was up for a couple of awards last night: Motion Picture, Comedy, which went to The Artist (did you see the dog from The Artist on the red carpet? adorable!) and Best Actress in a Motion Picture for Kristen Wiig, which went to Michelle Williams. We’ve heard that there might be some kind of sequel in the works without Kristen Wiig, who has been working on another project. Melissa McCarthy told Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet last night that she wouldn’t want to do another Bridesmaids without Kristen, though. (We don’t have photos of Wiig’s fug look, you can see them here.) Melissa may have just been paying it lip service but I think she was genuine and that if there is something in the works it’s in the very early stages and they’re still hoping to get Wiig on board.

Last night McCarthy wore this emerald Badgley Mischka which is doing something strange to her boobs. From some angles it looks like they’re sitting on a shelf. The dress looked a lot prettier on screen, though, and I’m so glad she opted for something with a jeweled neckline instead of going for sequins as she’s done so often this season.

Zooey Deschanel killed it in this gorgeous custom made Prada. I loved this dress so much and thought it was so striking. Zooey’s makeup was way overdone and her hair looked so fake and like it was hanging in her eyes. I wish she would have gone for simpler styling. Look at how cute she is posing with her sister Emily! I think Emily’s dress is a little fussy and I’m not liking the black shoes paired with the cobalt blue dress. She just had a baby less than four months ago. Zooey was up for best actress in a comedy TV series for “New Girl,” which went to Laura Dern.

Also up for best actress in a comedy was Tina Fey for “30 Rock.” Fey was characteristically cute and I love that she opted for a bright jewel tone instead of going for black as usual. She was in a tight Oscar de la Renta gown with a flared feather hemline. The dress wasn’t amazing, but Tina looked great.

Tina’s BFF Amy Poehler, nominated in the same category, looked a little washed out. She was wearing one of the more popular gown colors last night, a pale champagne shadPoehler was in Naeem Khan and I find the dress so pretty apart from the color. The subtle beading with clean lines is just so striking. I love Poehler’s cute hair and makeup too. That’s how you curl shorter hair.

Like Amy Poehler, Julie Bowen also suffered from too-light dress syndrome. She had on chiffon Reem Acra gown with a flowing gown and sequin cap sleeves. The sleeves were a little bizarre for me, and I thought her hair was matronly with those stiff curls. She looked lovely despite those minor issues. Her makeup is gorgeous.

Maya Rudolph looked a little underdone, in my opinion, in a v-neck sleeveless matte black gown with a full skirt. Still, I love the pattern on that dress, which is almost snake-like. Her stacked bracelets seem too informal and she could have dressed it up with some jewels. I would love to wear a million dollars worth of diamonds just for one night.

Photo credit: Juan Rico/Fame and WENN.com

This Tracy Morgan thing continues to be a Thing. Go here for Friday’s post on what went down. Just a quick recap – about a week ago, Tracy was performing in Nashville and he pretty stopped his comedy routine to do a full-blown rant full of ridiculously offensive anti-gay hate speech. No one said anything until a gay activist – who was in the audience – blogged about it on Facebook, and then everything went crazy. After the story came out on Thursday and Friday, Tracy released an apology. Shortly after Tracy released his apology, Tina Fey released an interesting statement:

I’m glad to hear that Tracy apologized for his comments. Stand-up comics may have the right to “work out” their material in its ugliest and rawest form in front of an audience, but the violent imagery of Tracy’s rant was disturbing to me at a time when homophobic hate crimes continue to be a life-threatening issue for the GLBT Community.

It also doesn’t line up with the Tracy Morgan I know, who is not a hateful man and is generally much too sleepy and self-centered to ever hurt another person.

I hope for his sake that Tracy’s apology will be accepted as sincere by his gay and lesbian coworkers at 30 Rock, without whom Tracy would not have lines to say, clothes to wear, sets to stand on, scene partners to act with, or a printed-out paycheck from accounting to put in his pocket.

The other producers and I pride ourselves on 30 Rock being a diverse, safe, and fair workplace.

[From Deadline]

I think Tina struck the right cord there, basically giving the impression that while she accepted Tracy’s apology, he was on notice, all while standing up for him as a friend. Meanwhile, Tracy’s 30 Rock costar Cheyenne Jackson, an openly gay actor, went to Out Magazine to release a statement: “I am disgusted and appalled by Tracy Morgan’s homophobic rant. The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today’s LGBTQ youth. I’ve known Tracy for two years, spent many long hours with him on set, and I want to believe that this behavior is not at the core of who he is. I’m incredibly disappointed by his actions, and hope that his apology is sincere.” Other performers and Hollywood types have been tweeting and blogging about all of this too – you can see some coverage here as well. My take is that people who KNOW Tracy and who have a comedy background seem to think that this was just a comedy bit that went way, WAY off-base, and that he’s not really like this as a person.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Mike Walker in the National Enquirer gets a lot of insider entertainment scoops. He was the first to report that a Wall St. sequel was in the works, for example. So this story could be true or it could be wishful thinking. Either way, it could work out well for Saturday Night Live. The lovely and talented Tina Fey is supposedly being courted to take over for SNL head Lorne Michaels whenever it is that Michaels retires. They would be incredibly lucky to have her:

NBC bigs are wooing “Rock” star/creator/Bossypants Tina Fey, former “Saturday Night Live” head writer, to take over the whole “SNL” shebang whenever exec producer Lorne Michaels, 66, retires from the show he created in 1975. (Let’s stand up and shout, America, “Yay!”) Said an NBC source: “The execs feel no one’s better qualified to take over the reins than Tina. Having her onboard guarantees the show’s success after Lorne leaves.” Insiders say Tina, who’s pregnant with her second child, loves the idea of helming “SNL” – and because the show takes many breaks throughout the season, it fits her mommy schedule perfectly.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, Mike Walker's column, May 2, 2011]

SNL sucks lately. The few times I’ve watched it recently I’ve wondered why the jokes didn’t have proper punchlines and why the skits went on about twice as long as they should have. (There have been some funny bits where they rip on celebrities, but they’re few and far between.) Of course Tina would do a great job at making the show both entertaining and topical again. She won a lot of Emmys for her work on the show and she brought it to new heights in the early 2000s. She may have too many other things going on to consider it, though.

We recently heard Alec Baldwin say that next year would be the last one for 30 Rock, because the contracts were ending. Kaiser thinks Alec was just trying to negotiate for a better contract. She also told me that last night was the 100th episode of 30 Rock and that it was really good. You know, I’d rather see Tina branch off into her other endeavors than come back and save SNL. I feel like that show has run itself into the ground and doesn’t deserve saving. It needs to fade out when Michaels leaves.

Tina is shown on 4/11/11. Credit: Fame. Lorne Michaels is shown on 2/28/11. Credit: WENN.com

Tina Fey has a new interview with GQ this month, all to promote her book and 30 Rock. You can read the whole piece here – Tina’s interviews are always a good read. Unfortunately, though, Tina is doing this new thing where she’s trying to represent the sisterhood of women by standing up for the most rage-inducing amongst us. In her InStyle interview, Tina tried to defend Gwyneth Paltrow’s comments about crying when she left her kids to go to work. And in recent interviews, Tina has been defending Olivia Munn, who I think Tina fancies as her comedic protégé. The problem: Olivia doesn’t deserve it. She hasn’t earned it. Here are some excerpts from Tina’s GQ interview:

On her breast pump: “Yeah, the thing’s upsetting. I would try to pump milk while watching Entourage on demand. And that was the worst possible way to do it. Like, I had the pump on, and I’d hear Turtle on TV: “Yo, E, you ever f–k a girl when she has her period?” I just sat there thinking: Oooh, this is not how this is meant to be.

Louis C.K. has a classic line that it’s completely okay to call your kid an a–hole. What do you think?
I think that any person being an a–hole deserves it. Especially toddlers—they’re total d-bags. You gotta let them know.

Liz Lemon is Seinfeld: “She is the spine, yes. But I always feel like she’s like Jerry Seinfeld on Seinfeld. You couldn’t have done Seinfeld and hired some random guy to be Seinfeld. What he was bringing was very specific to him.”

Do you think Liz is ugly? Because there are all these jokes about her being unattractive, and I just don’t see it.
It’s never that she’s ugly—I mean, she is sometimes slovenly. But for me, it’s always been kind of the opposite of what people have said about her. It’s about how other men see her, and has nothing to do with how she really is. When Jack is like, “Ugh, you’re a mess,” it’s because of what his brain wants a woman to be. It has nothing to do with the physical symmetry of her size or anything. So no, she’s not ugly. She’s kind of sloppy. But all the clothes that Liz Lemon wears are much nicer than what I would wear on a writing-hiatus week.

Lady blogs like Jezebel exploded after the episode with the Liz-hires-a-feminist-comic thing. It sure seemed like you were commenting on the outrage when Olivia Munn—hot lady, not necessarily hot comic—was hired on The Daily Show.
I was actually really pleased that Jezebel got that it was about the whole Olivia thing, because the treatment of Olivia was weird on that site. She just kept getting reamed! And it was this weird mix. They would go after her, and then the next thing would be like, “Defending the Rights of Sex Workers.” And I was just like, “Well, why can’t we just say Olivia’s a sex worker? Leave her alone!”

[From GQ]

I remember that episode. The female comic that the show hired had an act that consisted of “sexy baby” talk and talking about her boobs and sex, and when Liz tried to “out” the female comic, it turned out that the woman was hiding from her abusive husband and she liked men around because she was always scared her ex would return. It was a weird episode that didn’t really have a significant political message other than “Female comics whose comedy relies on being infantile and sexy are people too.” I get that Olivia is a person. And I even think she’s kind of pretty. But I get tired of infantile “I’m a pretty girl, here are my boobs and I’m making a naughty sex joke!” comedians. It’s boring and unfunny.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

These are some new photos of Tina Fey exiting the Ed Sullivan Theatre last night after taping a show with David Letterman. These are the first photos I’ve seen where Tina’s bump is really obvious. I’m really happy for her – she’s got it all! Happily married, one happy, healthy daughter and another baby on the way, a great career in television and film, and now a bestselling book, Bossypants. How does Tina juggle it all? As it Fey reminds the reader time and time again in Bossypants, not well. Apparently, there’s even a charming story about Oprah telling Tina that she shouldn’t be over-scheduling so much.

It’s also just been announced that Tina is going to host Saturday Night Live yet again – she’ll be the host for the May 7, the day before Mother’s Day. It should be a good one – Tina always gets the best writing when she’s on.

In other Fey news, a few days ago, (female) writer Curtis Sittenfeld wrote a piece for The New York Times about Tina Fey’s “place in the sisterhood” and whether or not Tina’s “girly” hilarity compares to the more traditional male-dominated humor-industrial complex. It’s an interesting piece, and worth a read if you like reading feminist essays about Tina Fey’s feminism. You can read it here.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Tina Fey is promoting her new memoir Bossypants, and I’ve been hearing so many good things about it. Lainey recently wrote that it’s laugh out loud funny, and the commenters on Amazon are raving about it. I’ll probably get it on iBooks or Kindle and read it this weekend. (There’s no price difference, but sometimes there is so it’s worth it to check. iBooks has an “enhanced edition” though that’s a dollar more at $13.99.)

Anyway I’m so surprised to hear that while Tina was filming a taped appearance on Oprah yesterday she dropped the news that she’s five months pregnant! She also has a five year old daughter with her husband of ten years, Jeff Richmond. If you’re a celebrity with good news, who better to tell it to than Oprah?

Tina Fey has some big news to talk about!

During a taping of The Oprah Winfrey Show Wednesday, Fey revealed that she’s expecting her second child.

The 30 Rock star is five months along, her rep confirms to PEOPLE. Fey and her husband, composer Jeff Richmond, also have 5-year-old daughter Alice.

Fey, 40, shared the news during an appearance to promote her new book, Bossypants, and an upcoming Saturday Night Live reunion. Oprah’s chat with Fey is scheduled to air April 12. – Julie Jordan

[From People]

Kaiser and I didn’t expect Tina to have another baby at all. In an article published in the New Yorker in mid February, Tina mused about whether she wanted a second child, and wrote “Am I just chasing it because it’s the hardest thing for me to get and I want to prove that I can do it? Do I want another baby? Or do I just want to turn back time and have my daughter be a baby again?” She was probably already pregnant at that point, (she may have written it a month or two before, but she would have been pregnant then too) and that suggests that she was trying for a pregnancy and it wasn’t an oops baby.

It might be good timing for Tina. Unfortunately Alec Baldwin just revealed that 30 Rock is going to be ending next season for whatever reason. He told NY Magazine that “next year is our last year of the show” and explained that “Our contracts are expired [in 2012], and Tina is gonna have a big career directing films and writing.” The current season, Season 5, started airing in September and has two more episodes left this year, on April 14 and a one hour 100th episode special on April 21. There’s another year to go and presumably 20 more episodes planned for the 2011/2012 season. You just wonder how they’re going to work around Tina’s pregnancy. I would guess that they can’t wait to start filming until after she has the baby late this summer and will have to work it in somehow.

That’s awesome and congratulations to Tina and Jeff!

Tina Fey is shown on the set of 30 Rock on 3/18 (window pictures and checked shirt, credit: WENN) and 3/22 (cleaning up trash, credit: Fame.) They seem to be covering her up for now.

Tina Fey is the cover girl for the April issue of InStyle Magazine. People Mag has some excerpts from the interview below, but one thing I just wanted to point out: Tina is trying to defend Gwyneth Paltrow! FOR REAL. In the interview, she was defending Gwyneth’s comment – from a year ago or more, I believe – that Goopy has “cried” on a film set before because she misses her kids. Tina says the same thing, but frames it in a different way and…when Tina Fey says it, the world laughs. When Gwyneth Paltrow says it, the world rolls their eyes and mutters something along the lines of “Snotty bitch troll from hell.” It’s not just what is being said, Tina. It’s how the lady says it.

As a multi-tasker, she puts even James Franco to shame. But actress, book author, screenwriter, producer, mother, youngest-ever Mark Twain Prize for American Humor honoree and seven-time Emmy winner Tina Fey has one more label she’s ready to add to her resumé: life coach to Gwyneth Paltrow.

“Any time you talk about being a working mother and you complain about it in any way, people eat your face,” Fey tells InStyle for its April issue, on sale Friday. “I remember reading some interview where Gwyneth Paltrow said something like, ‘I missed my kids on the set one day and I was crying.’ And I thought, Yeah, I’ve totally done that.”

Continues Fey, 40: “But on the Web site where I read it there were these furious comments. ‘But you’re a movie star!’ Yes, it’s much worse for a mom serving in Afghanistan. Of course. But there’s just no forgiveness.”

Exercising her formidable talents is still a stretch, given the time constraints in a day. Yet, as Fey admits, “You need a lot of help, and you need not to be afraid to ask for help.” She credits a great nanny and husband (since 2001) Jeff Richmond, musician and 30 Rock co-producer, who is also “a full participant” at home.

“But even still,” she says, “every 12 weeks or so, you just kind of lose it. Then you gather it back up.”

Daughter Alice’s Showbiz Instincts
Fey, on the promotional trail for her new memoir, Bossypants (“I thought for a minute about calling the book Having It All: Love, Work, Jaw Pain,” she says), is able to flex her muscle as 30 Rock boss by occasionally bringing her daughter, Alice, to the set.

There, the 5-year-old likes to play with actor Jack McBrayer, says her mom, who adds: “She’s also figured out that it’s funny to show people your butt.”

Revealing something of the Alice-Tina dynamic, Fey, tells InStyle: “Kids are definitely the boss of you. Anyone who will barge into the room while you are on the commode is the boss of you. And when you explain to them that you’re on the commode and that they should leave but they don’t? That’s a high-level boss.”

Which leads to the obvious question. Asked if she’d like more kids, Fey responds to interviewer Henry Alford, “If you’re asking me to do that with you, I cannot.”

[From People]

Going back to the Goop thing: I love Tina and all, but she doesn’t get it! She can say something like, “Any time you talk about being a working mother and you complain about it in any way, people eat your face…Yes, it’s much worse for a mom serving in Afghanistan. Of course. But there’s just no forgiveness” and we know exactly what point Tina is trying to make: that we, as women, need to give ourselves a break. I get that. But Gwyneth has never and will never say anything so humbly genuine. Gwyneth judges us fat peasants and our peasant-y way of living and working and raising children. Gwyneth’s whole deal with Goop is to encourage us to NOT FORGIVE ourselves because we should be aiming to be more perfect, just like her.

So… basically, I love Tina. Always have, always will. But I will not give Gwyneth a break just because Tina says I should. Gwyneth hasn’t earned it!

Photos courtesy of InStyle & WENN.

Tina Fey has written an essay called “Confessions of a Juggler” in the new issue of The New Yorker (the one with the Scientology article, I think), all about by a working mom who juggles. Now, I unapologetically love Tina Fey – she’s amazingly talented, a wonderful writer and comedic actress, and I love when Tina “gets real”. I love when she just says the truth in her own funny little way, which is what she did in this essay. The New Yorker has this brief snippet of her piece:

ABSTRACT: PERSONAL HISTORY about the writer’s dilemmas as a working mother. The writer’s daughter recently checked out a book from the preschool library called “My Working Mom,” which depicted a witch mother who was very busy and had to fly away to a lot of meetings. The two men who wrote this book probably had the best intentions, but the topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield.

What is the rudest question you can ask a woman? “How old are you?’ “What do you weigh?” No, the worst question is: “How do you juggle it all?”

The second-worst question is: “Are you going to have more kids?” Science show that fertility and movie offers drop off steeply for women after forty. The baby-versus-work life questions keep the writer up at night. She has observed that women, at least in comedy, are labeled “crazy” after a certain age. The writer has the suspicion that the definition of “crazy” in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to f-ck her anymore.

The fastest remedy for this “women are crazy” situation is for more women to become producers and hire diverse women of various ages. That is why the writer feels obligated to stay in the business, and that is why she can’t possibly take time off for a second baby, unless she does, in which case that is nobody’s business. Does the writer want to have another baby? Or does she just want to turn back time and have her daughter be a baby again?

That night, as she was putting the witch book in her daughter’s backpack to be returned to school, the writer asked her, “Did you pick this book because your mommy works? Did it make you feel better about it?” Her daughter looked at her matter-of-factly and said, “Mommy, I can’t read. I thought it was a Halloween book.”

[From "Confessions of a Juggler," The New Yorker]

Tina also writes that “It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam. . . than it is to speak honestly about [working moms].” She also jokes about being asked about her juggling act by nosy people, writing, “Sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I’ve poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away. There’s another great movie idea! Baby Versus Work: A hard-working baby looking for love (Kate Hudson) falls for a handsome pile of papers (Hugh Grant). I would play the ghost of a Victorian poetess who anachronistically tells Kate to ‘go for it.’”

Tina’s book – part memoir, part comedic essay collection (I think) – called Bossypants comes out in April. You can preorder it now!

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Last year, it was announced that Brad Pitt had signed on to do voice work the animated film Oobermind. I hadn’t really been following the production, but I remember hearing that Brad had joined Will Ferrell, and that Brad was the voice of the superhero. I wasn’t expecting this though – this sh-t looks hilarious. The project was renamed Megamind, and Ferrell plays Megamind, and obviously, the film is about Megamind. It seems like what would happen if they made a cartoon about Dr. Evil. That’s probably how they pitched it, actually.

Anyway, Brad has voiced the “hero” Metro Man, and Tina Fey is the voice of the lady in distress. There’s additional voice work by Jonah Hill. The film is directed by Tom McGrath, who also did Madagascar. It comes out in theatres in November.

Thanks to Seriously OMG WTF for the heads up!

Header: Pitt at the Clinton Global Initiative on September 24, 2009. Credit: WENN.

Tina Fey and Steve Carell did battle with the Clash of the Titans this weekend, and by most accounts, the little romantic-comedy that could came out ahead. As of this morning, Date Night appears to have made $27.1 million in its debut weekend haul, while Clash of the Titans made $26.9 million. But those numbers could change. Even if there’s a million dollar discrepancy here or there, I’m sure Tina will get a large chunk of the credit, just because she has the kind of fan base who will actually leave the house to go support one of her projects.

In other Tina news, she rocked on Saturday Night Live this weekend. There were lots of hilarious Justin Bieber jokes and even one great sketch with the two of them. Tina also returned to the Update desk to give a “feminist” commentary on Jesse James’ first-publicized mistress, Bombshell McGee. And of course, Tina did another great Sarah Palin spoof. It’s been a year and half since Fey did Palin, so there was a lot of material to jam into one sketch. They made it work though:

This one was actually one of my favorites of the night. Tina as one of Tiger Woods mistresses, doing golf commentary at the Masters:

Here’s the one Tina did with The Bieb… I give them both credit for being so game, and I absolutely love whenever Tina dances: