Tina Fey Introduces Gilda Radner Documentary at Tribeca Film Festival Last night in New York City at the kickoff event for the 17th annual Tribeca Film Festival, an audience screened the first documentary from filmmaker Lisa D’Apolito, Love, Gilda , at the Beacon Theatre. The movie chronicled the career of beloved comedian Gilda Radner, focusing mainly on her years at Saturday Night Live . Festival founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal welcomed guests to the premiere screening, but it was Tina Fey who introduced the documentary, though she was not interviewed for the film. “I can personally attest, and I feel comfortable speaking for Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, and Rachel Dratch, when I say that seeing Gilda as a kid, she was lovely and she was so authentically herself and so regular in so many ways,” commented Fey. “She was not a piece of casting. She was who she was on the TV. We all saw that and said, ‘I want to do that.’I...
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