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...other superheroes at other companies didn't seem to have too much vulnerability," says Stan Lee, who created Spider-Man at Marvel with artist Steve Ditko. "Peter had money troubles. He wasn't that popular with girls. Getting a date was a big deal with him." If Superman is a hero who dresses up as one of us, Spider-Man is one of us, dressed up as a hero. Says Jeff Ayers, manager of New York City's Forbidden Planet comics store: "Batman's a millionaire, Superman's an alien, and Wonder Woman's an Amazon goddess. Most superheroes...
...discovers the powers that will someday make him the Man of Steel. He moons over an unrequited crush and battles villains who are really externalizations of teen emotions and self-discovery, as on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Part of the charm of Welling's Clark and Tobey Maguire's Peter, in fact, is that they have a little bit of the feminine in them: they've learned from Buffy and pop culture's other fatal femmes, who make fighting evil just another aspect of the really tough job of growing...
...dictatorships, but, as you wrote, it is closer to the truth that "the movie extends the franchise's target audience from 12-year-old boys (the action stuff) to 15-year-old girls (the smoochy scenes)." What these movies are about is filling seats and selling Star Wars merchandise. PETER DALEY Purcellville...
Pity the CEO who thinks he can be a know-it-all micromanager and still succeed. In Unnatural Leadership (Jossy-Bass), executive coaches David L. Dotlich and Peter Cairo list 10 guidelines that today's best executives are adopting. Among them: inviting change, being approachable and considering the views of the mail-room kid with the green hair. "We tell our clients, 'You have to win your followers every day,'" says Dotlich. Some of the unnatural acts the authors recommend are: "Coach and Teach Rather Than Lead and Inspire," "Expose Your Vulnerabilities" and "Trust Others Before They Earn It." Cairo...
...Winners STEVEN SPIELBERG Director fulfills dream, earns bachelor's degree?33 years late. Inspired, Mr. T vows to complete remedial woodwork class he flunked RINGO STARR Decidedly fourth Beatle signs new record deal, causing Jan Wenner to hurriedly crash Rolling Stone's new "RINGO RULES!" cover JAN PETER BALKENENDE Harry Potter lookalike voted likely next Dutch PM. He's the lovable, squeezable, bespectacled new face of hard-right European politics Losers GEORGE W. BUSH President criticized for use of 9/11 photos in campaign fund raising. Hey, the "Bush Cowering in Air Force One Toilet" shot should be popular PRINCESS METTE...