Goddess of the Geeks

Tina Fey, she of the bruising punch lines, revisits the pain and suffering of high school in Mean Girls

Tina Fey made me steal a book. I told her that, fittingly, I had lied to Al Franken, the author of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, about reading it. So Fey grabbed the book from the communal library of her swanky Manhattan apartment building and made me steal it. I say made because Tina Fey is the Farrah Fawcett of the world of geek boys, and in 1977, Farrah could have wiped out Barnes & Noble if she had wanted to. But I also say me because Fey would never do something like that herself. "The girls I...

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