Did Tina Fey's scar affect her career?
You've doubtless heard all the buzz about the January Vanity Fair cover flaunting Tina Fey, as photographed by Annie Liebowitz and profiled by Maureen Dowd. (Talk about a PR juggernaut over there at Condé...and how come Tina hasn't graced the cover of TIME yet, I ask you? The Sarah Palin cover doesn't count.)
One nugget the publicists have leaked is Fey's discussion of the scar on her left cheek. I noticed the scar when she first began appearing on SNL's Weekend Update, but promptly forgot about it. I barely see it on 30 Rock's Liz Lemon. But in her increasingly frequent magazine spreads, I've noted that her scar is often airbrushed out. Fey herself seems to care far more about another body part:
“The most I've changed pictures out of vanity was to edit around any shot where you can see my butt,” she says. “I like to look goofy, but I also don't want to get canceled because of my big old butt.”
Also, her feet:
“I don't like my feet,” she says. “I'm not crazy about anybody's feet. But I have flat feet.”
Because I never read any comment by Fey about it, I presumed the scar was off limits. Now that she's addressed it in the VF interview, I found myself wondering: seriously? Who cares? And then I wondered: do physical quirks—scars, bowed legs, a missing ear—affect a career? What do you think?
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Oh VOMIT. Is that honestly the cover?? I'm on a serious feminist kick--what's with the "sweetheart" business? She's a funny woman who has made it to the top of her profession. Why can't they dress her like that?
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I was slightly disappointed at first, and then I got to thinking... it's supposed to be funny. Fey says in most all of her interviews that the "Feylin" thing was something she basically was begged to do by Lorne Michaels. I loved the impressions and she obviously did a great job. I think the cover is a great way to poke fun of America over the controversy that the skits were what swayed the vote. Who honestly knows? I don't think the cover has anything to do with trying to portray Fey as a "I bleed red, white & blue" type, but maybe the opposite? Don't get me wrong, she's very unlikely to be an anarchist, but I think from interviews I've read of hers, that she probably has a great way of questioning things that go on in our country which is kind of ideal, right? It's all very political, and I'm so very not. All that to say that I believe it's supposed to be politically comical. She's part comidian, part actor, part writer, part mother, part GENIUS!!! GO FEY!
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