Michele Pfeiffer and David E. Kelley

October 19, 1999
Web posted at: 4:42 p.m. EDT (2042 GMT)

From Sherri Sylvester
CNN Entertainment Correspondent

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Michelle Pfeiffer and David E. Kelley are Hollywood power players and a power couple. Between them, they've worked on six feature films this year. He has four television shows in production, including "Ally McBeal" and "The Practice" -- both Emmy winners this year. And they're raising two children.

Kelley's latest release, "Mystery, Alaska," is a sports lover's ode to ice hockey. Pfeiffer's screen work of the moment, "The Story of Us," explores a marriage on the rocks. Pfeiffer, who married Kelley in 1993, says the role was something of a stretch.

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Michelle Pfeiffer's latest is "The Story of Us," co-starring Bruce Willis Watch the trailer: Windows Media 28K 80K

"I'm in a really good marriage and really healthy relationship," she says, "and I couldn't be more content. And so I thought, 'Wow, am I going to be able to muster up some of the torture that I'm going to need for this? '"

Pfeiffer says you can have it all but you can't do it all, a philosophy her husband says he shares. Despite having a hand in "Ally McBeal," "The Practice," "Chicago Hope" and "Snoops," Kelley says "I really don't do it all. I stick to writing, but I'm a very good delegater when it comes to everything else."

In "The Story of Us," Pfeiffer plays a wife who's referred to as the family's "designated driver." In real life, she admits to being the detail-driven planner.

"Women have kind of kept the home fires burning and raised the children and run the household," she says. "Now, women have added career onto that. It's not that we have now eliminated what we were already doing, we've just added on a whole other thing."

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David E. Kelley's latest movie is "Mystery, Alaska" Watch the trailer: Windows Media 28K 80K

Pfeiffer recently decided to shut down the production company through which she produced "The Deep End of the Ocean" to spend more time with her children Claudia and John Henry. She adopted Claudia shortly before she met Kelley. He now has adopted the little girl, too. They had John Henry together.

"Having a full-blown company is just something that I don't have the time for now," Pfeiffer says. "I was just starting to feel really depleted, and the kids are getting older and the demands are different now."

The producer and actress say they prefer to be hands-on parents. But Pfeiffer acknowledges that not everything goes according to plan. "I mean it's kids, and you can have a whole plan for them and then it just goes out the window because they just don't do what you want them to do."