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...just don?t like your uterus,? her gynecologist (John Hodgman) tells her, adding that Kate has a one-in-a-million chance of ever getting pregnant. (You should be able to guess Act Three from here.) So she engages Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler), a white-trashy girl from the nearby town of Dreery, to be the child?s surrogate mother. When she breaks up with her loutish boyfriend Carl (Dax Shepard), slobby Angie moves in with neatnik Kate. In social aptitude, one woman is the baby, the other the mama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Come to Baby Mama | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...collaboration. Neither character is a caricature. Kate could be the snooty Bryn Mawr deb of old movies - the one whose class prejudices must be exposed by the working-class hero or heroine - but no, she?s decent, patient and hard-working. (And unexpectedly curvy-sexy, in the mandatory straight-girl-has-to-get-drunk-and-go-crrraaazy scene.) Most of all, Kate wants only what?s best for her baby, even if it drives the surrogate mom nuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Come to Baby Mama | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...characters in Meyer's books aren't Mormons, but her beliefs are key to understanding her singular talent. The heroine of Twilight is a girl named Bella who moves from Phoenix to a small town in Washington State (a part of the country Meyer had never visited when she wrote Twilight). Bella feels like an outsider at her new high school, but she is immediately drawn to a strange, otherworldly, ridiculously good-looking group of siblings called the Cullens, particularly to 17-year-old Edward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stephenie Meyer: A New J.K. Rowling? | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

...there. At twilightmoms.com a website for fans over 25, there are more than 200,000 posts. Last year there was an Eclipse prom in Tempe, Ariz. "It's not like Harry Potter, where you can wear a wizard's robe," Meyer says. "But they do what they can. One girl even had colored contacts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stephenie Meyer: A New J.K. Rowling? | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

...David A. Javerbaum: They were auditioning songwriters to do it and I auditioned—I wrote two songs. One was called “Girl, Can I Kiss You with Tongue,” and that was the one John Waters read and said, ‘We need to hire this...

Author: By Erin C. Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with David A. Javerbaum '93 | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

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