NEWARK, Del. -- An agent, a personal trainer and free stuffed animals were just a few of the perks enjoyed by the twin diaper-clad movie stars Adam and Jacob Worton, in their debut of the new John Hughes movie, Baby's Day Out. And while learning how to crawl, blow kisses and wave "bye-bye" on the Chicago set alongside famous co-stars Joe Mantegna and Lara Flynn Boyle, the Worton babies also earned their college tuitions, their mother Sue Worton said. "I'm just thrilled to death," she said in an interview at her home. "Everybody's really excited." But the apple-cheeked, blond-haired, baby-blue-eyed little tots have made one man in particular very proud. Joe Worton, the University's own Fire and Occupational Safety specialist, is the beaming grandfather of the 19-month-old twin thespians. Joe Worton -- whose office is now crowded by a gigantic poster of the new film and other memorabilia -- attended both the Chicago filming of Baby's Day Out, and the movie's premiere in California. And no one in the Fire and Occupational Safety office has been left out on the details of the Worton family's adventures in Hollywood, Fire and Occupational Safety Director Jim Miller said. "I feel like I'm part of it," he said. "Naturally Joe talks about it constantly -- I find myself talking about it too much." Miller -- along with the Wortons' family and other friends -- attended a private screening of Baby's Day Out at the Christiania Mall in Delaware before it was released several weeks ago to the public. "I recommend it for everybody, and I don't think I'm doing any favoritism," he said. "It is a really funny movie." But Sue Worton said she is not about to push her babies on "casting calls." "We'd only do something if we thought the boys were having a good time," she said. "Once they stopped having a good time, I don't think it would be worth it." Sue Worton added that all of the publicity -- including a three-and-a-half hour interview with People magazine last week -- made the Worton boys very cranky. "There were three photographers and a reporter here," she said. "[The babies] were just going crazy with so many people, and they were teething." As if to emphasize his mother's point, little Jacob Worton began hitting this Summer Pennsylvanian reporter with a notebook. Adam Worton then tossed the tape recorder across the room with a gleeful giggle, and began trying to pick apart the SP photographer's camera. After his mother chided him, though, he gave back the recorder and actually handed over one of his own toys, a music-making game that seemed to know only one tune -- the "Barney" theme song. Sue Worton said she first decided to audition her children for the movie when her Mother of Multiples Club in Delaware received a national newsletter from a casting company that was looking for twin boys with blond hair and blue eyes. She sent in photographs of Adam and Jacob, and later a video tape. A press release from Twentieth Century Fox states that the Worton boys were selected because -- along with their good looks -- they "learned at the same rate so that either one of them could be put in front of the camera and give the same kind of performance." Although Baby's Day Out tells the story of only one baby -- the millionaire "Baby Bink" who is kidnapped from his parents by three goofy villains -- twins were needed for the role because production companies prefer multiples due to labor laws which limit the time child actors can work on the set. Joe Worton said that the ending of the movie "laid the groundwork for a sequel of Baby's Day Out in China." Miller joked that "if there ever was a sequel, [Worton] would have to get a bigger office [to fit the poster]."
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