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Article: 'Baby Mama' delivers laughs.(Life-Screens)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- April 25, 2008
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Byline: AMY BIANCOLLI - Houston Chronicle
From start to finish, a healthy pregnancy is a comic enterprise. It starts with the sex act, proceeds to vomiting and methodically progresses into belly and birth-canal expansion before climaxing in a mondo explosion of primal screams, body fluids and writhing. Throw in a bit of gender humor and a cranky gynecologist, and boom: instant comedy. The funny, felicitous "Baby Mama" exploits every stage of pregnancy except the first. No hanky-panky to bump this plot in motion. Instead we zero in on the infertility tribulations of Kate (Tina Fey), a Type A 37-year-old Philadelphia organic foods exec who has never felt the need ...