'Rock,' hard place not so bad for this funny, pretty 'Mama'

April 25, 2008 Tina Fey sounds tired on the phone. Between playing catch-up after the writers strike on her brilliant NBC comedy "30 Rock," promoting her feature "Baby Mama" that opens wide today (it's Fey's first star vehicle on the big screen) and caring for her 21⁄2-year-old daughter, Alice, the woman's got a lot on her plate. We'll know within a few days -- indeed, a couple of hours -- if "Baby Mama" has catapulted her beyond recognition as the preeminent smarty-pants queen of comedy to something resembling mainstream appreciation.

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