![]() Shyer and Meyers, who did the mischievous “Irreconcilable Differences” and are just about the wittiest film makers in Hollywood today, are endlessly inventive. (He directs, she produces, and they co-write.) Where the fun comes in is in all that happens to Keaton when she tries to balance career and motherhood. You know very well that Keaton is not going to give up Elizabeth, and Shyer and Meyers know you know. For openers, they’re going to call her Fern. No way is she going to keep the child, but then she gets a load of the American Gothic couple lined up to adopt her and take her back to Duluth. Just as her boss (Sam Wanamaker) advises her that a partnership is in the offing she finds that she’s been named guardian of the baby daughter, Elizabeth (played by adorable, gurgly twins Kristina and Michelle Kennedy), of a distant cousin and his wife killed in a car crash. Wiatt, known in her Manhattan office as the “Tiger Lady” for her wizardry as a management consultant with a six-figure salary. This is just what that clever husband-and-wife film-making team of Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers have done to Diane Keaton, cast as J. ![]() The worst that could happen to us is for someone to stick us with an infant, right? Who knows from diapers? Who wants to know? ![]() “Baby Boom” (opening today at selected theaters) should strike fear in the heart of every avowedly single workaholic, those of us who put in 12-hour days, with everything else in life second. ![]()
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