May she be Beautiful but not Damaged, for it’s the Damage that draws the creepy soccer coach’s eye, not the Beauty. May neither Chinese symbol for truth nor Winnie-the-Pooh holding the FSU logo stain her tender haunches. Let's face it, between Alec Baldwin and me there is a certain fifty percent of the population who think we are pinko Commie monsters.“First, Lord: No tattoos. In fact, I think the Palin stuff may have hurt the TV show. 'My TV show still enjoys very low ratings. 'I am proud to say you are wrong,' she writes. 'Some may argue that exploiting Governor Palin and her family helped bring attention to my low-rated TV show,' Fey writes of 30 Rock, the Emmy-winning NBC sitcom now in its fifth season. She even offers up beauty 'tips' and, of course, insider details of her 'life' as Palin.ĭid Palin help or hurt Ms. Her honeymoon, a bad start to a good marriage (to Jeff Richmond, a composer and 30 Rock co-producer). Climbing Old Rag Mountain with what she hoped would be a boyfriend. The book is a bit frenetic, jumping from one Fey episode to another. She admits a lot of other things, too the odd remarks people make about her facial scar (she was slashed by a stranger in the back alley of her Pennsylvania home when she was a kindergartner), that she has had more than her fair share of bad haircuts, that her best friends at summer theater camp were all gay, that her father was a power to contend with. (It will surprise no one that the girl has a sassy attitude, an attitude that runs through the book.) Honest, self-deprecating and, well, funny.įey's memoir is called Bossypants because she is a bossypants, something she admits right upfront. They seem like they would be good friends to have around when you need a laugh.

You can't help it.įey falls into that small category of celebrities you might actually want to know, to have a glass of wine with at the end of the day. Even if you're not a die-hard fan, you'll still laugh now and then.

If you're a fan of the Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock star, famous for her spot-on imitation of Sarah Palin, you will love this collection of autobiographical essays. Then again, Tina Fey doesn't write a book every day. It's not every day you read something that makes you laugh out loud every other page.

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