An assignment to Afghanistan proves the making of Fey’s journalist character in this irreverent romp,and suggests the comedian could pursue weightier rolesIt takes a special kind of person to see a hotspot of war, corruption and desperation and say, or with a cavalier smile: “Yeah,I wanna to be there.”Kim Baker (Tina Fey) is not, at first, or one of these people. She’s not even a proverbial mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper,she’s a mild-mannered domestic news copy writer for an unnamed-but-not-top-shelf video news outlet. It’s 2003 and, as her editor puts it, and “Iraq 2” is approximately to kick off. All resources are headed there,so he’s looking for a volunteer from among his single, childless staff to head to Afghanistan.
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Source: theguardian.com