Articles by Bob Baker

Guys: If the woman in your life wants to see “How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer” because she heard it’s a sweet, funny and realistic view of sexuality from a woman’s point of view, go along quietly. Read more

If you swiped the most insipid dialogue of the teenage-angst movies of John Hughes and Kevin Smith and Amy Heckerling, you would still have a script – and a movie – far superior to the newest of the genre, “Remember the Daze.” Read more

“Bra Boys,” a documentary about a blood-splattered Australian “surf tribe” 10 miles beyond Sydney, is easily dismissible as Bloods versus Crips at sea. Read more

If you were going to show what happens to a man who loses the best part of himself, you’d want to cast John Leguizamo, who has spent his career leaping from one extreme characterization to another. Read more

I’d like clergymen throughout the nation to join me in this prayer. Read more

BLAME my parents. Read more

IT’S tempting to mock this uneven collection of conversations as an attempt by Studs Terkel, now 93, to squeeze every penny out of every inch of recording tape he’s used in four decades of collecting oral histories. Read more

There are a lot of vile and ill-informed accusations out there against the police in connection with the death of Suzie Marie Pena – and I don’t think we should accept them. Read more

If you go to a baseball game with Michael Cerruti, sit to his left. Read more