“Crazy goes with beautiful 100% of the time"

Reading -- relaxation for the mind.

30 Rock can be over the top, but it still pretty funny most of the time and her character is the best part.  “Crazy goes with beautiful 100% of the time,” she says about Jenna.   My all-time favorite line.

Her book is more than one-liners strung together, but recounts key events in her life.

I love that she is one of those super down to earth celebs, acknowledging that her life is pretty darn great.  I mean, she worked hard to get there, as recounted in the book, but now that she has “arrived,” she knows she is fortunate to have a battery of nannies and helpers at her beck and call. 

She gets that other people who work on her show don’t have the same resources, which is awesome since I hate TV stars complaining about the long, arduous days they work to tape their 12 annual episodes. 

I have taken the liberty of excerpting some funny parts.  Tina, I hope you don’t mind. 

– On showing a drawing to a newfound kindergarten friend:  “I was so used to being praised and encouraged that I held it up to show the boy next to me, who promptly ripped it in half.  I didn’t have the language to express my thoughts then, but they were something along the lines of “oh, it’s like that mother (you  know what)?  Got it.”

– “I remember watching Three’s Company as a little brown haired kid thinking “Really? This is what we get?  Joyce DeWitt is our brunette representative?  She’s got that greasy-looking bowl cut, and they make her wear suntan pantyhose under her football jersey.”  I might have been only seven or eight but I knew that this sucked.”

– In another excerpt she recounts an incident when she was working the front desk at the YMCA:  a rich old guy who she had stopped because he didn’t have his card screamed “Don’t you know who I am goddammit.”  “I wanted to say “Do you know who I am?  No…Then how could I know who YOU are…We don’t KNOW EACH OTHER!”

– And she had the best description of helicopter moms I’ve ever read:  “they are a solely upper-middle-class phenomenon occurring when highly ambitious women experience deprivation from outside modes of achievement.”  Or as one of my friends so fabulously put it one time “Stanford MBAs making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.”

A definite recommend!