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Article: Boring and juvenile 'Baby Mama' a whole lot of blah

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May 1, 2008
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Tina Fey has to be one of the hottest comedic properties in entertainment. She cut her teeth quite well on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" and wrote a rather successful screenplay for "Mean Girls" a few years ago. And now she has the popular NBC show "30 Rock." But for all her star power, neither she nor her former SNL colleague, Amy Poehler, can save "Baby Mama." This surrogate mothercomedy comes across like the tepid milk-a-mother tests on her wrists to be sure it's not too hot for an infant. Blah characters. Blah story. Blah everything. Fey plays Kate Holbrook, a career businesswoman who admits, during her prime fertile years,, that she chose her career instead of settling down and ...

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