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liMA YOUR CONTACT Ed Berthiaume, senior editorcustom publishing 920-993-1000, exL 213 e-mail: eberthiaumepostcrescent.com SUDOKU B-2 COMICS B4 TV B-5 www.postcrescent.com The Post-Crescent Friday, April 25, 2008 fll MOVIENIGHT A weekly spotlight on the big screen LlVi i it 1 1 1, niii-f Tina Fey, star of 'Baby Mama' and the TV hit '30 is laughing all the way Now playing Movies opening today on local screens DECEPTION: Ewan McGregor plays a dorky accountant whose hotshot lawyer pal Wyatt (Hugh Jackman) brings him into an exclusive sex club. Too bad the poor guy has never seen a movie before if he had, he'd probably realize he was going to be framed for a crime he didnt commit Rated for sexual content, language, brief violence and some drug use. "31 ft' rr fulfillment BABY MAMA: Former "SNL" co-stars and longtime best buds Tina Fey and Amy Poehler take their comic stylings to the big screen in this Mother's Day-ready comedy about a successful, single businesswoman (Fey) who decides she has everything she wants in life except a baby. But when she's told the likelihood of her successfully conceiving a kid is slim to none, she looks around for a surrogate mother. Enter slovenly blue-collar gal Angie (Poehler) who agrees to be well, the baby mama.

Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language and a drug reference. HAROLD KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY: Harold Lee and Kumar Patel the 21st century answer to Cheech and Chong are back and higher than ever in the sequel to the 2004 cult hit Picking up where the first film left off, the boys are on their way to Amsterdam to find Harold's lady love when they are mistaken for terrorists and tossed in Gitmo by a certifiably crazy federal agent (Rob Corddry). Rated for strong crude and sexual content, graphic nudity, pervasive language and drug use. "Things are going good. My life is not terribly angst-ridden.

I have a lot of support. And I don't do anything else." TINA FEY By Karen Heller McClatchy Newspapers On "30 Rock," the NBC comedy Tina Fey created, writes and produces, she plays Liz Lemon, a competent television producer whose personal life is a catastrophe. In "Baby Mama," which opens today, Fey portrays Kate Holbrook, a competent Philadelphia organic-food store executive yearning for a baby whose personal life is a catastrophe. The central difference be "And I don't do anything else." Nothing? "I don't and this is not an exaggeration have time to put lotion on," she says. "If I get enough time in the morning to go to the bathroom and brush my teeth and put on the clothes that I wore the day before, that's it The idea of putting lotion on my legs, that's not happening." The first female head writer in "SNL's" history, Fey was chosen as one of Time's "100 See MOVIE, B-3 tween Liz and Kate is that the latter sports tighter skirts and higher heels.

Amy Poehler, Fes former "Saturday Night Live" "Weekend Update" deskmate, costars as her working-class surrogate mother from Jersey. So here sits Fey, 37, the woman who in real life has it all: the hit show, the new movie, the husband, the 2-year-old daughter, some Emmys. "Things are going good. My life is not terribly angst-ridden. I have a lot of support," Fey confesses, sitting on a hotel sofa.

Weaver plugs in to role as real-life mom for new movie SHINE A LIGHT: Martin Scorsese and the Rolling Stones unite in "Shine A Light," a look at The Rolling Stones. Scorcese filmed the Stones over a two-day period at the intimate Beacon Theater in New York City in fall 2006. Cinematographers capture the raw energy of the legendary band. Rated PG-13 for brief strong language, drug references and smoking. McClatctiy Newspapers For movie times, see B-3.

because I got started late, so I wanted to stay home and have fun with her." Being a mom enabled Weaver to relate to Chaffee Bicknell, an unusually fertile woman who runs a surrogacy agency in "Baby Mama," which opens today. Weaver's Chaffee, who keeps getting pregnant despite being long in the tooth, pairs the baby-mad but reproduc-tively challenged Tina Fey with Amy Poehler as her surrogate. "It's such an intimate portrait of both of these women in a loving way," Weaver says. On the plus side is plenty of work and a potential trip to Southeast Asia with her husband, director Jim Simpson. "When you're a working mother, the guilt is enormous.

And to not have that, to actually be able to work and not feel that tug all the time, would be great," says Weaver, who's shooting Tim Allen's directorial debut comedy "Crazy on the Outside" and recently wrapped James Cameron's "Avatar." "It's worse for me than for her. She's fine without me. You just feel like your place is at home. She was my only one By Donna Freydkln USA Today She has slain aliens, battled ghosts and sparred with a big-haired underling gunning for her job. But Sigourney Weaver, 58, the 5-foot-ll Vi star of "Alien," "Ghostbusters "and "Working Girl," is getting ready to cope with something entirely out of this world: empty-nest syndrome.

Her daughter, Charlotte Simpson, 18, leaves for college in the fall. "Oh, my God," Weaver says, shaking her head. "But it's very exciting." Sigourney Weaver "COVERAGE ON POSTCRESCENT.COM Movie listings: Look for Fox Valley movie times under calendar. Spring brings long-awaited return to the ballpark Wireless movie listings sound of a fastball pounding the catcher's mitt. I love the bellow of the overzealous beer man.

I think its pretty cool how a row of 15 people who probably wouldn't hold a door for you will gladly work in unison as a chain to complete the cash-for-beer transaction with the vendor standing in the aisle. know if I've ever been to a game where the experience didn't transcend the nine versus nine on the field below. Football is better on television. But there's just something about watching baseball in person. I love the sound of cracking peanuts and the feel of the shells beneath me as I rise from my seat.

There's the crack of the bat and the Name a place more perfect than the ballpark. Pick a ballpark. Any one. Maybe it's just my spring fever boiling ccr. Or maybe it's the.

fiesh hopes of a new season. Yet after taking in two games since the all-too-recent snowmelt, I just can't imagine a more perfect place. I apologize in advance if this comes off sounding like the Kevin Costner or James Earl Jones characters from "Field of Dreams." And if it makes this more fun, please free to read the remainder in your best Jones voice. Better yet, do it aloud. But the sentiment remains.

I took in one game at Miller Park and another at Fox Cities Stadium. Neither game was particularly interesting. But I don't For movie listings anywhere Jim Collar Post-Crescent staff writer Ql in the U.S., send a text mes-sage and the city (such as MAppleton) or ZIP code (e.g., M54912) to 44636 (4INF0). Page editor Julie Gilkay See COLLAR, B-3.