Names and faces

Monday, March 17, 2014

Tina Fey is working on a Mean Girls reunion of sorts, but it won’t be in the form of another movie. The 2004 comedy, which will mark its 10-year anniversary in April,was adapted by Fey from Rosalind Wiseman’s 2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabes. The cult classic starred Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfriend and Lacey Chabert. News of a reunion has been buzzing since Fey and Lohan appeared on the first episode of Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show last month. Lohan took the story one step further earlier this month when she told Fallon that the reunion was on. During media rounds for her latest comedy, Muppets Most Wanted, Fey addressed the rumors and her role in starting them. “Yeah, I saw her at the first episode of The Tonight Show. We did that bit with Jimmy, and I said to her, ‘Oh, I think someone may call us about doing some kind of reunion because next month is the 10th anniversary of the movie,’” Feytold Access Hollywood. Fey said it would just be a panel of some sort, not another movie, insisting it’s been too long since the original hit theaters. “No, it’s definitely not a movie,” Fey said. “It’s just the anniversary is coming up, so everybody get your pink shirts.”

Rick Ross still gets excited about No. 1 albums,but as he celebrates his fifth, he takes satisfaction in different ways. Ross marked the ascendance of Mastermind on Saturday night during South By Southwest, the annual music conference and festival in Austin, Texas. “You know what, when this is what you center everything around, you just want the best, not only for yourself, but for your team, everybody you build with,” Ross said. The 38-year-old rapper played new material Saturday and showed his mind’s been on mortality since he survived a January 2013 drive-by shooting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He told the crowd it was important to remember the rappers who have died too early, like Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G., before launching into “Nobody,” a song with the vocal hook “you’re nobody till somebody kills you.” Ross said the experience has caused him to look at life through a new filter. “You’re never indestructible, but what you do is if you have certain feelings you want to express, you express your feelings,” he said. “I’ll continue to do that till the day I die.”

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