Career
His work has been syndicated by Knight-Ridder, Scripps Howard News Service, and the McClatchy wire services. Baltake"s film reviewing career started at Gannett"s suburban newspaper group, where his critiques appeared in several New Jersey-based newspapers, and continued at Knight-Ridder"s The Philadelphia Daily News and McClatchy"s The Sacramento Bee. He was the first-string film critic at both dailies.
In all, he estimates that he has professionally reviewed about 7,000 films throughout his career.
He has contributed articles on film to The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, Us magazine, "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives" (Volume Six, 2000-2002) and Films in Review, among others Baltake also has served on festival juries, including the Philadelphia Film Festival.
Baltake has contributed commentaries to several Digital Video Disc sets, including on-camera interviews for Sony Entertainment"s The Jack Lemmon Film Collection and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment"s The Apartment collector edition