Person of Interest

Tina Fey's Secrets

From Maureen Dowd's new profile.

Among the juicier bits from Maureen Dowd’s Vanity Fair profile of Tina Fey: Lorne Michaels was warned not to put her on screen because “she doesn’t have the looks”; her husband of seven years, Jeff Richmond, calls himself the “Joe Biden of husbands” because he always says the wrong thing; the scar on her left cheek is from “a violent cutting attack by a stranger when Fey was five”; and Fey admires Leni Riefenstahl. Really. “If she hadn’t been so brilliant at what she did,” Fey says, “she wouldn’t have been so evil. She was like, in the book, ‘He was the leader of the country. Who was I not to go?’ And it’s like, Note to self: Think through the invite from the leader of your country.”