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During this time period legendary creators like Jerry Siegel, Bob Kane and Stan Lee took the fledging industry in their hands and gave it a firm foundation on which everything since has been built. These people were the pioneers and visionaries responsible for creating the Supermans, Batmans and Spidermans who have graced so many pages over the years, characters who have leaped out of the panels and into our cultural heritage...
...Children," Riegel plays Bianca Montgomery, the teenage daughter of Erica Kane, played by Susan Lucci...
...count at 33 viewings back when I was around 17, and that was a very long time ago. I'm sure the count stands at over 50 now. I'm not sure it's the most significant film in my canon, but it's a big one, like "Citizen Kane" or "Vertigo" or "Taxi Driver" or "La Dolce Vita." "Kong" was the first film to which I ever gave a close reading, in the narrowest technical sense. Seeing the film as often as I did made it possible for me to examine each contribution in depth - fortunately...
...KARGER/TIMEPIX Watching what Steiner did in "Kong" expanded my appreciation of all film scores, an appreciation I've never lost, and for which I am appropriately grateful. The rich scoring of Kong set me up for Bernard Herrmann a couple years later, when I finally caught up with "Citizen Kane...
...middle age, almost all of them working in Hollywood?give themselves. If the awards go to good movies (like Shakespeare in Love), that's nice. If they go to terrific ones (like Platoon), that's a coincidence. If they go to great ones, that's a mistake. Consider Citizen Kane: Orson Welles' masterpiece lost in 1942 to How Green Was My Valley...