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...need to doubt the sensationalist tabloid, “World Weekly News”; elusive sensation Bat Boy can soon be found at the New College Theatre. “Bat Boy: The Musical” follows the half-human, half-bat phenomenon as he is taken from a cave in small-town West Virginia and taught to integrate himself into society. Bat Boy must fight his natural animal instincts as he discovers family, friendship, and love amongst the townspeople...

Author: By Alex C. Nunnelly, Renee G. Stern, and ALEX E. TRAUB, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Theater Previews | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...picks bar brawls with packs of space studs. Anger management was not a major issue with Shatner's Kirk, but that was a different century. Pike's Kirk has to be the hot-tempered yang to the yin of Quinto's Spock - who also gets an overhaul. Half-Vulcan, half-human, his nature is at constant war not only with Kirk's but with itself. In this Star Trek, philosophy takes a back seat to psychotherapy. (Read TIME's review of the new Star Trek movie by Mary Pols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office Weekend: Star Trek Conquers the Universe | 5/10/2009 | See Source »

...librettists Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming and songwriter Laurence O'Keefe collaborated on Bat Boy: The Musical, based a creature dreamed up by the WWN staff in 1992. Half-human, half-bat, he was discovered in a West Virginia cave, and proved so popular that the writers had him escape custody every now and then and go on a new adventure. In the excellent musical version, which starred Devin May and had a long off-Broadway run, he is a practically a Christ figure, sacrificed and venerated: "Hold me, Bat Boy, / Touch me, Bat Boy, / Help me through the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Late Great Weekly World News | 8/30/2007 | See Source »

...plan for Iraq. He understands that it is not enough to send our brave boys out to fight the spread of Terror with training in criminology, martial arts and forensics. We must strike Terror into the hearts of our enemies by adopting the disguise of a weird half-human, half-bat creature of the night. Batman intends to equip every bold American soldier with Batgear and a Batmobile, so that we can effectively win the war in Iraq. It’s only what our troops deserve in their battle to rid the world of evil...

Author: By Sarah C. Mcketta | Title: There Is No 'I' In Batman | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...scratches its victims and bounds out of sight into the darkness. Some say it's a monster with a black monkey face and human legs, possibly with coil springs on its feet. Or a robot invader with steel claws. Just possibly, the marauder is a half-human spy in an iron mask from neighboring Pakistan sent to destabilize the Indian capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monkey Man Attack! | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

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