Word: fey
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...Hurwitz cast a brilliant group of character actors, such as Tambor (sidekick Hank Kingsley on HBO's Larry Sanders Show), David Cross (of HBO's Mr. Show) as George's fey doctor-turned-actor son-in-law Tobias Fünke and Will Arnett, who steals his every scene as rebellious son Gob (pronounced like the biblical Job), a preening, self-absorbed magician. The most traditional sitcom actor is Bateman (Silver Spoons), whom Hurwitz was reluctant to cast for precisely that reason. "But he came in and gave this dry, confident performance," Hurwitz says. "There aren't many actors who will...
...writer and Weekend Update co-anchor so funny. It also allowed her to turn an investigation of the traumas of teenage girls into a Lindsay Lohan teen comedy. "Rosalind Wiseman's theory is that if girls don't have a support structure, they take drugs and get date-raped," Fey says. "I left that out to get the PG-13." Mean Girls, which opens on Friday, April 30, may be more well intentioned than clever, but it does attempt something more complicated than any other comedy Lorne Michaels has produced. "On one level it's a high school picture," says...
...person, without her glasses on, Fey, 33, seems slight, shy and approachable. Maybe too approachable for her own good. She is moved, in the course of an interview, to pull her shirt down to cover her midriff and mention her husband several times. Back in high school in Upper Darby, Pa., before she was one of PEOPLE's most beautiful people ("In all the world!" Fey exclaims. "India! China!"), back when she was an honor student and a co-editor of the newspaper as well as a member of the drama club, the tennis team, the community-service corps...
...case she forgot what high school catfights were like, her young co-star provided a case study. During filming, Lohan, 17, got into a public feud over a boy with fellow teen diva Hilary Duff, 16. Fey, whose day job is mocking celebrities, cuts the girls some slack. "Sometimes I think Us Weekly should leave them alone," Fey says. "They're just kids. If notes I wrote about some girl in ninth grade were in Us Weekly, I'd be really bummed. Actually, I'd be really psyched." It's that hint of cruelty, that gleeful leaking of darkness that...
Though she has got lots of attention for performing, Fey doesn't plan to do much more of it. A former member of Second City, she says she goes out for auditions but has never landed an acting part--the closest she has come being a callback for Down with Love. So in addition to keeping the writing gig she has had for seven years at SNL, she's also working on a sitcom-development deal at NBC. And she would like to write and direct movies in which she has small parts. "My role model is Harold Ramis...