Word: fey
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...network to showcase a series whose premise is that broadcast TV needs to be saved. You would not expect that network to be NBC, which still airs Saturday Night Live. And finally you would not expect that network to debut a second show about a sketch-comedy series. (Tina Fey's comedy within a comedy, 30 Rock, debuts in October.) But when you're in fourth place, you'll try anything--twice--and NBC and producers insist that Studio 60 is about not SNL but a fictional lame sketch show. Studio 60 is from West Wing producers Aaron Sorkin...
...personal style matters, if truthfulness, kindness, and humility are considered matters of style. Part of the myth is that professors didn’t like the president’s “style,” as though they objected mainly to his tailoring or as though fey humanists were not used to the rough and tumble argumentation supposedly standard among economists. But basic human virtues are not trivial things. Any corporate CEO who regularly breaches the social and moral demands of leadership will eventually lose the power to lead. Privacy in a search process is important...
...Senate committee approved a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage--apparently forgetting that our forefathers wore wigs and satin Capri pants." TINA FEY...
...wake of reports that the NSA is monitoring phone records, Senator Arlen Specter, the Judiciary Committee chairman, said he would subpoena phone companies to appear before his committee. The phone companies said they would try to be there sometime between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m." TINA FEY...
...they'll watch two about TV writers, right? NBC has picked up Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, a drama by AARON SORKIN (of West Wing fame) about backstage goings-on at a late-night sketch-comedy show, and looks likely to pick up Saturday Night Live star TINA FEY'S as-yet-unnamed sitcom about backstage goings-on at a late-night sketch-comedy show. Now all we need is a show about backstage goings-on when two shows about late-night sketch-comedy shows make...