Three Men and a Baby Three Men and a Baby Three Men and a Baby is a 1987 American comedy film directed by Leonard Nimoy and starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson and Nancy Travis. It follows the mishaps and adventures of three bachelors as they attempt to adapt their lives to pseudo-fatherhood with the arrival of the love child of one of them. The script was based on the 1985 French film ("Three Men and a Cradle"). The film was the biggest American box office hit of that year, surpassing "Fatal Attraction" and eventually grossing $167 million in the US. The film won
Three Men on the Bummel or Academic fencing. The mensur sword duels are described at length, with little humour, and with Jerome expressing extreme disapproval for the tradition. Jerome would have been aware of Mark Twain's humorous travelogue, "A Tramp Abroad" (1880), based on a walking tour through similar parts of Germany, with extensive comments on the language and culture. "Three Men on the Bummel" follows in this vein. At least one of Jerome's remarks, however, is remarkably prescient: Jeremy Nicholas says that the book is "unfairly chastised as being an ineffectual afterthought" to "Three Men in a Boat", and that "the set pieces (the