Word: krypton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country. This fantasy of an all-righteous America fills movie theaters even as it fuels presidential elections. Who is Indiana Jones if not the movie-serial avatar of White House Reagan, leaping up from near fatal assaults with a wave and a joke? Who is Superman if not the Krypton Gipper, fighting for truth, justice and voluntary school prayer? At the end of a campaign year that played like one long half-time pageant, two entertaining movies arrive with a complementary pair of star figures for the next generation. Supergirl: the girl next door as feminist champion. The Terminator...
Supergirl is Kara (Helen Slater), Superman's younger cousin and a fellow émigré from Krypton, who grows up in Midvale, U.S.A., as Linda Lee. In her preppie uniform she is an ordinary schoolgirl, but put her in red cape and tights and she is revealed as California Girl, apotheosis of the workout ethic. Kara must save the world from the malefic Selena (Faye Dunaway), high priestess of Endor and part-time palmist. In this task, Supergirl is aided by her Krypton father Zaltar (Peter OToole), who, as in every other Freudian fable from Oedipus Rex to Star...
...Carl, of course. It is a fragment of Carl, deputized with a brief memory. It is a crystal of Carl, like one in the ice palace of Superman's heritage from Krypton. Carl, at that moment in any case, is elsewhere. Carl has proliferated a little. His flagship self is steaming across town on some business, plowing along through conventional time. His ancillary self, his butler self, the ghost in the machine, is waiting in its little timelessness...
Sure, she's got connections--she's Superman's cousin and the product of his producers. Yes, she's experienced from her inaugural battle with the over the evil witch Selena (Faye Dunaway) and her corny cohorts. But, by Krypton, is she boring...
That's right, earthlings. In Supergirl, which is due out this summer, we learn that the Man of Steel has a cousin, Kara, who fled the doomed city of Argo, a floating chip off their old home planet, Krypton, and landed in Midvale, Ill., where she assumed the identity of a Midwestern teenager. Got that? Anyway, with her muscle-bound relative away on an intergalactic mission, Kara, played by Newcomer Helen Slater, 20, is kept busy battling megabaddies like the evil witch Selena, portrayed by Faye Dunaway, 43. To prepare for her flying scenes, Slater talked with Christopher Reeve...