"Less a biography than a baseball movie, "The Babe" is a muddy field of dreams fertilized with a whole lot of Bull Durham. Loosely based on George Herman Ruth's life, this shallow, soap-operatic treatment makes the man fit the myth. And bigger-than-life or not, he rattles around inside there like the prize in a Cracker Jack box."

"Apart from being a bad film in the first place, aside from being superficially written, aside from being shot with little sense of time or place, the movie portrays Babe Ruth as a man almost completely lacking in the ability to have, or to provide, happiness. Spending these 115 minutes with the Babe is a little like being jammed into the window seat on a long-distance bus, next to a big guy with beer and cigars on his breath and nothing to talk about but his next meal and his last broad."

"There Was Only One."

"Half of everything I own just went down the drain with the "Gladiators of Broadway." The other half is in the pocket of The Sultan of Swat, and he wants a raise and his own suites during road games."

"You are the best, you are the best there's ever been."

"There's so many show-offs in journalism, so many braggarts and jerks. They're always selling, always working the room, always trying to make themselves look hotter than they actually are. The good news is, reporters like that make it easy to distinguish yourself. If you're even a little humble and a little self-effacing, you stand out."

"Ted Kotcheff - Marty Peretz"

"Linda E. Smith - Gloria"

"Cas Anvar - Kambiz Foroohar"

"Luke Kirby - Rob Gruen"

"Jamie Elman - Aaron Bluth"

"Chad Donella - David Bach"

"Simone-Élise Girard - Catarina Bannier"

"Mark Blum - Lewis Estridge"

"Steve Zahn - Adam Penenberg"

"Hank Azaria - Michael Kelly"

"Melanie Lynskey - Amy Brand"

"Rosario Dawson - Andy Fox"

"Chloë Sevigny - Caitlin Avey"

"Peter Sarsgaard - Charles Lane"

"Hayden Christensen - Stephen Glass"