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DIED. BOB KANE, 83, creator of the comic-book icon Batman; in Los Angeles. Kane brought the character to life in 1939, inspired by the masked hero Zorro, a silent movie called The Bat and a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's batlike flying machine. The strength and creativity Kane bestowed on his superhero allowed Batman to leap from comics to a 1960s TV series to the movies (see Eulogy, below...
...thirds of the moviehilarious succumbs to moments so predictable andcliched that they make Air Bud looksuspenseful. In fact, the final third of TheWaterboy resembles Air Bud in onestriking similarity: the football team isdiscouraged and defeated in the first half withoutits star player, but rejoices when the slobbering,poodle-brained hero prances onto the field. Thebest part of the final scenes is the presence ofRob Schneider as a dirty, smelly and perverteddrunk that squeezes riotous laughter out of therepeated phrase...
...went through Georgia on a fast train, and now Billy Joe Shaver is storming into Somerville. This hero of the hillbilly music circuit is headlining with his son Eddy in an all-acoustic show supporting his new album Victory. It will be a fantastic show, whether you are a displaced Southerner or a Yankee searching for a taste of low culture. 8 p.m., Johnny D's Uptown, 17 Holland St., Davis Square, Somerville. 776-2004. $12 cover...
While it may take another century to fully understand the Taino culture, it should not take as long to eradicate the myth of Columbus as a hero. HALLEY ALLEN Holden, Mass...
...ever manage to elect anybody," Bech lectures the group, "the institution will dwindle to nothing." Who would care? Not Bech's current mistress, Martina, who dismisses the Forty as "a bunch of mostly New York City has-beens electing themselves." Updike has one surprise for his beleaguered hero: the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature. Anyone who thinks this stunning recognition will at long last make Bech at age 74 happy and fulfilled underestimates his funny and finely honed habits of suffering...