Did Alec Baldwin Turn Tina Fey Into a Sexpot?

2008_12_feybust.jpgVanity Fair’s January cover story is on “America’s New Sweetheart” Tina Fey and (being Vanity Fair and all) it primarily focuses on how Fey transformed from being the frumpy 25-year-old virgin who one agent assumed was having an affair with Lorne Michaels to the sexy librarian The New Yorker recently called “the sex symbol for every man who reads without moving his lips.

And while going on Weight Watchers when she was still just a writer at SNL in order to become “PBS pretty” may have had something to do with it, Alec Baldwin shares with the magazine the only advice he’s given to his-costar since the inception of 30 Rock:

“I’d say to her, ‘‘You know, you’re a really beautiful girl. You’ve got to play that. It’s a visual medium. This is not Upright Citizens Brigade, where we’re doing sketch comedy at nine o’clock at night on a Sunday for a bunch of drunken college graduate students. You are a very attractive woman and you’ve got to work that. You’ve got to pop one more button on that blouse and you’ve got to get that hair done and you’ve got to go!’... There is Liz Lemon and there is Liz Lemon as portrayed by a leading actress in a TV show. It’s not a documentary. Tina’s a beautiful girl. We needed to get the pillows fluffed on the sofa and we needed to get the drapes steamed, and we needed to get everything all nice and get the presentation just right.”
All of that pillow-fluffing seems to have done the trick as the article recounts how Fey is now every dirty old man’s fantasy, turning the heads of everyone from Rip Torn to Steve Martin. Even the story’s author, the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd, seems to be cast under the spell of Liz Lemon, describing her at one point as being “like Daisy Buchanan, except her voice is full of funny rather than money.”

Also, the big scoop in Dowd's article is how Fey got her scar: Apparently a stranger slashed her when she was five years old. FIVE!

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Tina Fey's husband is talking about something the "30 Rock" actress would rather not discuss: the scar on her left cheek.

In an interview in Vanity Fair, Jeff Richmond says a stranger slashed Fey's face when she was 5 years old. He says the incident occurred in the front yard of her house.

Says Richmond: "That scar was fascinating to me. This is somebody who, no matter what it was, has gone through something. And I think it really informs the way she thinks about her life."

Fey says talking about the attack would seem like exploiting it.

Says Fey: "It's really almost like I'm able to forget about it, until I was on-camera, and it became a thing of `Oh, I guess we should use this side' or whatever. Everybody's got a better side."

I thought it said "and we needed to get everything all nice and get the penatration just right".

She needs a stiff Italian sausage. That will take the edge off of her career searching.

I LOVE TINA FEY. EVEN MY WIFE LET'S ME LOVE HER. I LOVE TINA FEY!!!

Taking "sexy" pics for a couple of dumb magazine stories does not a sexpot make. She's still a nerd, a somewhat funny nerd, but there are a good number of geeks down at UCB that are hotter than her.

Note: if she got implants, my opinion might change drastically.

Americans are such freaking sex fiends they would do Cleopatra's mummy if they could.

"Americans are such freaking sex fiends they would do Cleopatra's mummy if they could."

Update; They can and they DO.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25609866/

Where's Baby Hitler? Shouldn't he jump in right about now and say "I'd do her"?

I would happily chop up the slimebag who attacked her if she would at least let me lick her sexy glasses before screaming : "OH, CRAP! SECURITY!"

i think her scar is sexy.

yo tina, i'd bang you. i'd have a menage a trois with maureen too.

sorry she's not that hot.

don't believe the hype.

she is funny though.

I'd finger fuck her, yessir I would.

Barren, old spinster Maureen Dowd has finally accepted the fact she couldn't land a man who wanted to make a baby with her before her biological timeclock ran out and is now giving lesbianism a shot. She probably won't get a piece of Tina either.

What a dumb bunch of comments.

I'd butter her flapjacks and gravy her potatoes. at the same time.

I sat across from her on the F train for 4 stops about 5 years ago. She was stil at SNL then. She wasn't wearing makeup. It was instructive.

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She looks hot in that pic.
:D

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