After a surprising collapse during an award ceremony last night at the Sundance film festival, Tracy Morgan's health issues appeared far from over. Lewis Kay, Morgan's publicist, was quick to rule out drugs and alcohol maintains upon his release this morning that "exhaustion and altitude" were to blame. Read More
Shocking reports out of the Sundance Film Festival indicate that the movies have been overshadowed by celebrity behavior--in this year's edition, by the collapse of 30 Rock comic Tracy Morgan. The Hollywood Reporter, er, reports that Mr. Morgan collapsed after an awards ceremony honoring him (and other megastars like Kate Bosworth and AnnaLynne McCord). Read More
Never one to shy away from the IRL controversy of its stars, last night's 30 Rock devoted a whole episode to Tracy Morgan's now-infamous homophobic stand-up set in Nashville last Spring, which he's since apologized for.
The episode, aptly titled "Crisis Control" revolved around the backlash after "Tracy Jordan" (played by Morgan) angered the gay community, and confused GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) with the trash bag company. Topical!
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We’re here to tell you just how to set your DVR before heading out for drinks or dinner–or just watching something better on TV! Sure, you're planning on watching 30 Rock tonight--we don't need to tell you to DVR it. But we encourage you Read More
Are you surprised that New Yorker publications love liberal TV? Not really? That's okay, it's still interesting to read up on the Experian-Simmons survey that measured consumer's TV preferences against their political ideology and then spat out a bunch of shows that determine how liberal or conservative you are. Surprisingly (not surprisingly), most New York media favor the programs only watched by people who voted for Obama and support green initiatives.
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NY Post whipping boy Alec Baldwin was unceremoniously kicked off an American Airlines flight today for playing Words with Friends on his smartphone iPad, reports Mr. Baldwin, the NY Post, Mr. Baldwin later tweeted that he was moved to a 3:00 p.m. PST American Airlines flight, blasted the airline's flight staff Read More
In light of Tracy Morgan's outburst at a comedy club, for which he's already done the apology routine, claiming his violent fantasy about killing a gay son, we recalled Tina Fey's speech at the GLAAD Media Awards this year (embedded below!), when her series won a prize for its episode featuring Liz Lemon's gay Read More
NBC has released next season's schedule, one featuring six new series to debut in the fall (and six more for midseason). New shows are to include the Mad Men-alike The Playboy Club, a drama about Bunnies in the 1960s; Up All Night, a comedy about parenthood that is to feature the return of both Christina Read More
It takes a special talent to announce your departure from the air with more brashness--and less, you know, factual basis--than Glenn Beck. And yet here we are, Alec Baldwin! The 30 Rock actor told New York that the show's coming to an end in 2012, at the end of its sixth season, though Read More
Plenty happens each day—how to keep up with it all? Time to test your memory!
--How did Tina Fey acquit herself as a tertiary character in a fake Bravo reality show?
--...and how does Mel Gibson do in Jodie Foster's new dip into directing?
--Speaking of which! How did the husky-voiced directress--scandalously!--finagle her way onto Read More
30 Rock last night satirized both Jezebel--recast as "JoanOfSnark"--and the blog chatter about Tina Fey's failures as a feminist. The episode dealt with protagonist Liz Lemon's struggles with a new, disconcertingly flirtatious female writer--and ended up at the conclusion that there are many different ways to be feminist, and that Liz hasn't mastered Read More
Yesterday, we reported on Tina Fey's burgeoning career as an essayist--complete with book tour and publication in The New Yorker. The essay got press for being honest about the judgments women disproportionately face. Curiously, Fey has often been the subject of such judgment from The New Yorker itself; she's the rare first-time Read More
Tina Fey's Bossypants, due out in April from Little, Brown's Reagan Arthur, may be one of several TV-star books hitting the market, but it's getting a particularly big push. Today's anniversary issue of The New Yorker features an excerpt from the newly minted essayist (subscription only) on the demands of motherhood and TV Read More
Tracy Morgan has the best job security in America. His character on "30 Rock" syncs up nicely with his actual persona, though he's just a bit more profane when inhabiting the guise of Tracy Jordan.
Just a bit more profane. Last night, the real-life Morgan walked out of his courtside seat at the Knicks-Heat game at Read More
SNL real estate palooza!
If Manhattan real estate transfers are any barometer for Big Apple success, graduates of the Lorne Michaels school of comedy are certainly having the last laugh. Last week The Observer reported that Jimmy Fallon and wife, Nancy Juvonen, purchased a third apartment at fancy 34 Gramercy Park East; and now Read More
