![]() ![]() (Charles Munitz for WBUR)īoth the memoir itself and Fey’s adaptation are at once potently comedic and deadly serious, the story of a bold journalist making her way in a war zone.īarker says very few women were assigned to cover the war at its outset by The Chicago Tribune, where she was working at the time. ![]() Kim Barker, posing next to a poster for the film based on her time covering the war in Afghanistan. In the end she thinks “they managed a balance between the humor, the sadness and the dark parts really well,” and Barker was very happy with the result. Fey got wind of the review and a couple of weeks after it appeared, according to Barker, Fey had plans well underway with Paramount Pictures and producer Lorne Michaels to do a film based upon it.Īfter seeing funny trailers, but before actually seeing the film, Barker wondered whether screenwriter Robert Carlock and directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, all well known for their accomplishments with film and television humor, were going to carry that tone through the entire film. ![]() Michiko Kakutani wrote that Barker depicted herself “as a kind of Tina Fey character” in her 2011 review of the book in The New York Times. Based on her five years as a war reporter in Afghanistan and Pakistan (2004-2009), her memoir is written, as she recounted in an interview in Boston on a recent visit, in a way that would draw in readers with its light touch but teach them something significant along the way. ![]()
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