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Last night, 30 Rock producer and writer Tina Fey on NBC.com. She answered viewer questions about what "Blurgh" means; whether Emily Mortimer, Chris Parnell, and Rachel Dratch will be back next year; what it's like working with Jason Sudeikis; what Fey stole from the SNL set; whether Jack and Liz will ever hook up; performing at Second City; managing family and work; her plans for the summer; her advice for aspiring writers; her proudest moments from the show; why she likes lobster; and what's on her iPod.

She didn't answer viewer questions about Alec Baldwin.
Art mirrored life in last night's episode, though, which resonated with the question hanging over 30 Rock's head: Will Baldwin, Fey's embattled co-star, return next season, or will his requests to NBC to be let out of his contract be granted?
Last night after watching Ugly Betty #8212 and realizing that the plotline was completely stolen from Dirt (sleazy male magazine editor sleeps with an underage girl, gets blackmailed for a cover and lo and behold, turns out she s actually 18!

) #8212 one giant question remained. How on earth can a fashion-magazine staff dress like such hookers? Herewith, we present Ugly Betty s Crimes Against Fashion.

1. It s All About the Ta-Tas.
We have nothing against breasts (hell, we even have a pair).

But must every girl have her girls propped up front and center, in tops that are cut down to there #8212 and yet, no nip slips! (Thank you, double-sided tape!) Christina (a.

k.a. the closet girl) had hers strapped into a purple dress.

Wilhelmina started the show in a lace teddy that was most certainly not La Perla. We have to commend the men for maintaining eye contact.
Marc, Wilhelmina s assistant, pranced around in a green plaid vest over a pale blue shirt.

Close your eyes and envision that for a second. An assistant's style is a reflection upon the fashion editor's. What s Marc reflecting about Wilhelmina?

That she s clearly colorblind and slightly retarded.
Entertainment tips for multiple personalities.
Monet is French for "blockbuster.

" And Wildenstein Co's "Claude Monet: A Tribute to Daniel Wildenstein and Katia Granoff" is the biggest survey the city s had in 30 years: 60 works wangled from public and private collections, including two paintings that have never been displayed in public. [ ]
Elizabeth Streb choreographs for the Jackass-and-video-games age. Her high-impact, daredevil S.

L.A.M.

Show 9 features "action mechanics" leaping off high platforms, dodging concrete blocks, throwing themselves against walls #8212 and distracting young ones. [ ]
With 67 events and 162 big-deal writers, the PEN festival is so comprehensive so Momentous it's ridiculous. Which is why we'll be attending tonight's slightly more frivolous A Believer Nighttime Event, starring artist-filmmaker-author Miranda July, essayist and "PC Guy" John Hodgman, and Eric Bogosian.

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Jack Valenti, longtime head of the Motion Picture Association of America, died yesterday of complications from a stroke. Valenti, who was 85, was a longtime aide and confidant to President Lyndon Johnson he married one of Johnson's secretaries and is in the background of the famous photo of Johnson taking the Oath of Office aboard Air Force One and joined the MPAA in 1966.

He's most remembered for creating and maintaining the system of film ratings that still governs the motion-picture industry. Highlights from Valenti's obituaries: Best encapsulation of Valenti's total devotion to the bosses in his life: "Valenti was in awe the moment he met [Lyndon Johnson]. Recalling that day during a Caltech appearance in 2003, Valenti said: 'I was fascinated the way I'm fascinated by a hooded cobra or a silken panther on a hillside ready to spring.

It was an animal magnetism I never got over.'" James Bates,
Best description of Valenti's oratorical style: "A voracious reader, he devoured everything by Macaulay, Churchill and Gibbon, and his speaking and writing style would mix his native twang with the rhetorical flourishes of his heroes in a brew of clich e , cornpone, compelling phrases and clunkers that one critic called 'a kind of Texas baroque.'" David Halbfinger,
Best-chosen example of that oratorical style: "The Lord only knows how many more conspiratorial badgers are out there burrowing into the entrails of Alice's Nonsense Wonderland, ready to barter their gauzy and grotesque notions for gold in the publishing and movie marketplace.

" Richard Natale and Cynthia Littleton,
Best example of Valenti's knee-jerk Luddite tendencies: "Valenti's stay at the MPAA was also marked by his colorful attacks on Sony's Betamax VCR, which the MPAA feared would ruin the exhibition industry: In 1982, he told the House Judiciary Committee's copyright subcommittee: 'I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.'" Brooks Boliek,
Best speculation on actual cause of death: "News of his death earlier today at the age of 85 wasn t a complete shock. He had a stroke in March, presumably when he realized they were giving Grindhouse an 'R' complete with Quentin s melting penis.

" Moriarty,
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