Tina Fey Battles Video Games With Her Reproductive System

“My husband used to play Halo. He used to have a bunch of SNL writers come over and play Halo. In my apartment they had this thing where they rigged three or four TVs together. They had them on a rolling cart and they’d play, and play online. Then guess what happened? I had a baby. That shut it all down.� —Tina Fey on how women can get their men to stop gaming [IGN]

“It’s going to be a real political year and I’d hate for the show to have to seek somebody out to play Obama when they have me sitting there.� —SNL’s Kenan Thompson, who plans to lose 60 pounds so he can portray Barack Obama on the show this season [Starpulse]

“I believe that she misunderstood it. She went down the wrong road and couldn’t figure out how to get back to the right one. I felt really badly for her.� —Miss Teen USA host Mario Lopez on the botched response of contestant Lauren Caitlin Upton during the pageant’s Q&A (see it here!) [World Net Daily]

“I need the same dark romantic yearning. I had been watching all these movies, like True Romance and Harold and Maude and The Hunger and Bonnie and Clyde, and I started wondering where that sort of feeling had gone.� —Marilyn Manson on why his fairly conventional marriage didn’t work for him [OC Register via PopMatters]

“People often tell me they dressed like me for a Halloween party, like I’ve never heard that before. I go, ‘Really? Oh, who’d have thought?’� —Malcolm McDowell on how his role in A Clockwork Orange is a costume go-to [Globe and Mail]
—Elizabeth Black