Word: spacemen
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...Meltdown did in its first three. It didn't help that Dawn of the Dinosaurs was the summer's fifth movie whose cast of characters included at least one prehistoric beast. (Can you name the other four?*) It may be time for Hollywood to go back to spacemen...
When kids play games, they pretend to be adults: soldiers, spacemen, cops and robbers or, for the more precocious, doctors and nurses. The theme is, Be what you want to be. Then when they grow up, go to Hollywood and make movies, they often create characters that are emotional adolescents, infants, kids. The credo of so many action films and comedies is, Be what you used to be or what you still, secretly, are. This tendency could be the film industry's wise acknowledgment that inside every adult is a backward child ruled by fears and cravings. Or it could...
...Soon after Siegel and Shuster's Superman appeared, and a year later, Bob Kane's Batman - and, perhaps not coincidentally, right after the first science-fiction convention where Forrest J. Ackerman came dressed as a spacemen, thus inaugurating the pulp tribute costume - a group of citizens donned masks and gaudy couture and called themselves the Minutemen. Not so much groupies as avatars of the fictional superheroes, they spent World War II getting off on doing their truth-justice-and-the-American-way thing. Disbanded in 1944, they reconvened with some new personnel, and by the '60s were important factors...
...between mission control and the ship and began writing about the "snappishness" of the astronauts. The Russian press weighed in too, pointing out the crew's "increased irritation due to the monotony of the spaceflight and the imperfect design of the systems for controlling the vital functions of the spacemen...
...sends out a different frequency when it shows up on a banged-up city block. Although it sometimes appears in the suburbs, street art is mostly a city format, borrowing its images from the primordial ooze of video games, advertising, science fiction, skateboard decals, porn and politics. Masked gunmen, spacemen and George W. Bush are all major motifs...