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Baby Mama’s Success A Victory For Smart, Funny, Barren Women

7:45AM Seth | Sadly, it’s time to resign yourself to the fact that you are no longer in the “coolest place on Earth” (i.e. the desert, watching Prince cover Radiohead), and have returned to one of the lesser-cool places on Earth: your office cubicle. We won’t even sugarcoat this: Here’s the weekend grosses, straight up. 1. Baby Mama – $US18.3 million Ladies can! Some industry pundits were concerned the sudden ubiquity of Tina Fey could spell disappointment for her latest big screen effort. Audiences, however, proved them wrong, as public interest in the 30 Rock star’s useless, T-shaped uterus proved even greater than for Forgetting Sarah Marshall star Jason Segel’s lower-case-g-shaped penis. More »

‘H&K’ Vs. Poehler/Fey, Defending Bette Midler, and Other New Movie Dilemmas

7:15AM Defamer Hollywood | Deciphering your moviegoing options for the third week running, Defamer Attractions returns today with a look at the final weekend before the studios spill summer in our lap. Today we gauge Tina Fey’s chances for box office superiority, corral the highest-profile dog since 88 Minutes (that was only last week? Really?), recommend a certain Oscar-winning actress’s directing debut and scan the new arrivals shelf for DVD’s of notice. As always, our opinions are our own, but they’re also right. You can thank us later! More »