Archive for Thursday, April 24, 2008
ONTHEWEB
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, who are known for their “Saturday Night Live” sketch comedy as well as Fey’s “30 Rock” and “Mean Girls” script, don’t have writing credits on their new film, “Baby Mama” (that goes to Michael McCullers, who also directed), so did they offer any input?
Fey: I think it went how we wanted it, which was, like, he did all the story breaking and heavy lifting and writing the actual movie. And then he let us improvise our dialogue a little bit. If we had a joke, he would add it.
Poehler: Weirdly, I’m gonna get a “head of the studio” credit. I forgot to tell you.
Fey: I got “craft services removal.” Is that because I ate a lot?
To read more of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler discussing “Baby Mama” and how they came close to playing Laverne and Shirley on the big screen, go online to latimes.com/entertainment and click on Tina Fey in Hollywood A-Z.
- Father kills family and himself, despondent over financial losses
- Infertility patients caught in the legal, moral and scientific embryo debate
- A semester abroad ... in Tinseltown
- Biden, the master gasbag
- Is now a good time to panic?
- House of Blues on Sunset Strip in jeopardy of sanctions
- Thousands celebrate 100th anniversary of Philippe's
- Maher's mockery misses the point
- Millionaire ex-inmate dies in scooter crash
- Red Sox send Angels home again
- Plunge in markets brings another kind of depression
- Debate reaction varies
- The debate in body language
- Killing of Mexico mayor sends message
- It's (almost) all good for Lakers' Andrew Bynum
- McCain, Obama clash over economy in a testy debate
- Gay is a choice? Not that again
- Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens' associates discussed questionable billing records
- More than 300 arrested in immigration sweep
- Fact-checking the candidates
