European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Actress Diane Keaton at a marketing Wulz turned mom in the new comedy Sim baby babies for the Power lunch crowd by James Hirsch new York times somewhere on i hair Way to the lop Many Young professionals in the United Stales have discovered that hey cannot live on silk ties and Power lunches alone sure they gradual Summa cum laude Bough cuisinart food processors look saunas at the health club and spent Summers abroad. Some even married. But after years of putting in 70 hours a week inching their Way toward the executive dining suite and having enough Money Lor All the fight things Many men and women in i hair 30s decided that was t enough. A position As company vice president or partner would wait they decided. It was Lime 1o become parents. People becoming parents for the first Lime in their 30s were largely responsible for the 37 million births recorded in 1985, the highest number in 20 years nol surprisingly movie studios and television networks Are producing a spate of shows about the fuss Over formula and the Joy of a toothless smile As Well As the end of a Carefree Way of Lile and the dawning of new responsibilities it s bringing up baby 1987 style. This month marked the opening of baby Boom in which Diane Kealon plays a single minded business executive who inherits a baby girl from a relative. The baby derails Kealon s career but ultimately brings her Persona happiness men will discover parenthood in three men and a baby to be released in november. This film based on the 1934 French Hil three men and a Cradle features Tom Selleck. Steve Gutenberg and Ted Hanson As roommates who become the collective father of a baby girl who is a product of one Roommate s Liaison. Another film this year about parenthood although in a less conventional framework was raising Arizona a comedy in which an sex convict and his wife Slart a family by kidnapping a baby. The film was moderately successful with Domestic Box office Salos of $26 million. Meanwhile a Lew go los May be heard from television programs this season. On Abc s thirty something the plot centers on the lives of a Hall dozen Young professionals including a married couple with a 9-Monlh-old daughter. The male As Parent will also be popular. Full House on Abc offers three men raising three children Tell behind by a woman who has recently died. The death of a woman also allows two men to raise a 12-year-old girl on Abc s my two dads Hollywood and the networks did not have to lock Lar Lor those ideas. They reflect the real life experiences of screenwriters movie and television Dirc Clors and actors even Woody alien do though nol in the Young professionals ago bracket is about to become a father for the first Lime Mia Farrow is expecting i ctr baby Hollywood 15 n very myopic Community and ends to Mako movies about things affecting them said a marketing director at a movie studio who asked nol to be icle Lilied this generation in discovering the Miracle of by Fly. And i foots As if in is the first Genc Rahon to discover said of course past generations have put babies on television or in the movies Lucille Ball Lor example had Little Ricky on i love l Lucy. Bui unlike Lucy no was Lul Lillig the role expected of a wife current mov is and television programs Ollen depict parenthood Al least initially As involving Trade oils Hal Are resented by baby Boomers who though they could do everything and miss nothing our generation made self Graif Calion a Credo said marshals Hersk Wili a 35-year-old Krilor who is director of thirty something and has two Young children of his own. Bui now Many producers and directors who Are in their 30s Are having families arid they find the changes in their lives Are amazing sacrifice and responsibility become a watchword of everyday me. You lament the end of the freedoms and privacy you once had. But the boy is abounding " indeed the Moss ago of these movies and television programs is that babies till a void Pilic ulary Lor workaholics my wife says to me she s never Hoard of anyone on his deals bed who wished he d spent More Limo Al the office said Tony Thomopoulos. Chairman and Chic executive of United artists pictures which released baby Boom. This film is about the need to have balance in your baby Boom also serves As social criticism of compel Ilive parents who arc Bent on pushing their children to intellectual and physical peaks before the age of 3. In several humorous Yel poignant scenes the character played by Kealon worried Hal her Young girl. Elizabeth will not be admitted to a Good Nursery school. Iries to polish e Hab old s resume by enrolling he in . There she learns to recognize the faces of John f. Kennedy whoops Goldberg and other americans whom the under .5 crowd should presumably know the writers of the film Nancy Meyers and Cha Les Shyr did nol have to look beyond their own experiences As parents of two Young children to bring to the screen the needless pressures placed upon new parents. One of the preschools asked us what our daughter s hobbies were and she was 4 years old Shyer said. It s the experts say babies alone will nol lure people to Heaters or their television sets these shows will hop or flourish based on their men still their popularity will be watched carefully if baby Boom and Throe men and a baby do Well you can bet others will follow said Martin Grove business editor of the Hollywood reporter a Trade publication Steve Gutta bar left. Tom mattock and Tea Denton Taka on Coll avg Fott Matood in thro Man Ana saturday november 7, 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 17
