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...have even drafted them into war, as when Captain America famously punched out Hitler. And as TV horned in on the comics audience, its superheroes reflected our moods in war and peace. The 1950s had its straight-arrow Superman; the 1960s, a campy Batman. After Vietnam, we saw comforting images of super-Americans (Wonder Woman, the Bionic Man and Woman); after the cold war, postmodern parodies (Space Ghost). Call it coincidence or prescience, but a new generation of prime-time superhero is arriving for a new decade and a new war. Smallville (the WB, Tuesdays...
...staying, well, uplifted,” or the realization that I haven’t been doing three reps of push-ups four times a week and therefore have not been developing the muscle that will magically transform my breasts into a veritable man-grabbing dynamic duo. Holy nipples, Batman...
Like the Joker to Batman or Lex Luthor to Superman, the Soviet Union gave America its post-war identity - by being its living antithesis. And the mortal struggle between the two defined and organized the wider world in which they lived, and their place and purpose in it. No surprise then that the optimism that greeted the Soviet Union's sudden collapse a decade ago has long-since given way to a profound identity crisis on both sides of the old divide...
...argument here. "Planet of the Apes" was indeed a fine-looking movie, from the setting to the shots of the apes loping into battle to, well, to Estella Warren and her highly evolved hairdo. That was to be expected from the director of "Scissorhands," "Batman," the even better-looking "Batman Returns," and "Sleepy Hollow." And I?m happy for Burton, whose cachet as one of Hollywood?s bankable directors has been in the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately category since "Mars Attacks," (which I actually liked, but no one else did) - the movie opened to the tune...
...even in these politically correct times, when even dark heroes must be driven by some easy-to-understand childhood trauma and Tobey Maguire gets the lead in "Spiderman," there?s an interesting way to do this - think Michael Keaton in "Batman." Wahlberg?s (or Burton?s) Capt. Leo Davidson has (apparently) a lovely girlfriend who misses him, as well as the usual complement of cookie-cutter friends who send him a joshing taped message from some idyllic backyard barbecue back on Earth. Come home soon, buddy...