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...enough problems. He can pretty much do anything-dude has superbreath-and apart from the kryptonite thing, he's pretty much invulnerable. And oh, my stars, what a do-gooder. Where's the inner conflict? Or the outer conflict, for that matter? He's not dark and troubled like Batman or Wolverine, or cute and clueless like Spider...
...both TVs to a Sony DVD player, using a special (and expensive) box. The DVD player upconverts the video signal from DVDs to high def. That doesn't mean that the videos themselves are HD, but they do look pretty good. I was able to view movies such as Batman Begins, House of Flying Daggers and The Incredibles on both screens at once. Later, I connected the TVs to my cable box to watch true high-definition signal - the ESPN HD broadcast of last Monday night's Phillies-Braves game. This might not be termed a scientific review, but rest...
...sleeping problems started? He went to a soccer game in the morning then a birthday party that afternoon. Anything exciting happen at the birthday party? Not that I know of. It was a superhero party. They had jumped in a "superhero " bounce house, played " super games " wearing capes, had batman cake and then watched a video. He said no one hurt his feelings and no one was mean to him. He seemed perfectly fine when I picked him up. What video did they watch? Spiderman. (AHA!) Spiderman? The one with Toby McGuire -The one that ' s rated...
...most seven year olds, being a superhero was an important and consuming undertaking. My sons wore their bath towels as capes, referred to the basement as the Bat Cave, and had even gone so far as to rename the ice cream parlor with 32 flavors " Batman and Robins' ." So I knew that skipping Spiderman would be a challenge, but the voice of the developmental pediatrician who lectured during my residency kept me strong, "Rules give children boundaries and when they have boundaries they feel safe...
...closest to their hearts were films that dealt with morality and conscience and intolerance. None of [the best picture nominees] had special effects and this was an exceptional year in that sense. But it was also a year that brought us the last Star Wars,, one of the best Batman ever made; it brought us Narnia, the great King Kong, and I got a chance to squeeze War of the Worlds in there, where I worked very hard not to allow the special effects to upstage the characters in the movie...