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atch out, Roger Rab-
bit. There's a new
lovable hero in
town, and his name is Baby
Man, the world's only
diapered hero, who has the
power to taste trouble in the
air and transmutate into dif-
ferent animals.
Why did Bruce Baum
create such a character?
"Originally, it was just to
make a couple of twin sisters
happy in a cheap Toledo
disco," joked Baum. "Actual-
ly, I was sitting around trying
to spoof the different
superheroes, and that's how it
came up. Baby Man is a hero,
but he is not really a
superhero. Where Superman
can lift up a car, Baby Man
can probably fix a parking
ticket."
Baum, a comedian who
lives in Los Angeles, is the
star of still-to-be-released
film, The Adventures of Baby
Man, a movie he wrote and
directed.
"Originally, I was going to
law school when I went into
comedy," noted Baum. "When
I went into comedy, law
schools across the country ap-
plauded my decision."
Baum went to UCLA for
two years and played on its
football team. With hopes of

getting more time on the foot-
ball field, he transferred to
the University of California
where he received his B.A.
degree in political science.
"Well, the first day I got up
there (University of Califor-
nia), I started doing comedy,"
Baum said. "So, I didn't go
out for the team. I would go
into the library during finals
week with a washboard and a
cymbal; everybody would
stop, and I would do about five
minutes of comedy and run
out."
When he wasn't entertain-
ing his peers in the library, it
was off to medical buildings
where he would try to talk
doctors into hiring him to
entertain crowded waiting
rooms instead of having
music. "A psychiatrist told me
that I was crazy for wanting
to do that," Baum noted. "He
said I would be spreading
disease from one office to
another."
Baum went to graduate
school at UCLA and earned a
degree in film while he was
working at The Comedy Store
in Los Angeles every night. "I
was doing comedy all through
college," Baum said. "When I
started out in 1973, there
weren't comedy clubs
everywhere like there are
now?'
His first national exposure
in comedy came when he was