(See Tina Fey as part of the 2009 TIME 100.) (HerĪlter ego, Liz Lemon, usually tilts the scar side away from the camera.) "Still me," this cover seems to smirk. She's also posed to show the long, thin scar on her face, the one everyone asks about, discussion of which she usually dodges. There she is, as glossy and pretty as you please, except she has the torso and hands of an overweight, hairy man. The spoofy cover suggests Fey wasn't blind to the possibility of some backlash for her megamillion celebrity book contract. Why not a book that fans and even nonfans would want to read? As she cheerfully suggests in her faux-huckster's introduction, "Maybe you bought this book because you love Sarah Palin and you want to find reasons to hate me. , she's always produced things we want to watch. From her days as the first female head writer at But the arrival of the delightfulĭoesn't just put those fears to rest it makes me want to apologize for the brain spasm that caused me to forget Fey's foremost talent: writing. Was Fey heading into the realm of celebrity cash-in books? Would she write a vacuous memoir with a glossy picture on the cover? I know I was worried. Tina Fey signed a book contract in the fall of 2008, at the height of her Sarah Palinportraying ubiquity, some of her fans may have felt a twinge of unease.
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