Word: superheroic
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...living room, dressed in the professional funny person's uniform of jeans, sneakers, T shirt (and optional Oxford shirt, unbuttoned), surrounded by exactly the kind of stuff a Long Island high school kid from the '60s might buy if he grew up to be a multimillionaire--car models, superhero models, Mets memorabilia, a mint-condition Schwinn Sting-Ray--Seinfeld comes across as a relatively contented man, perhaps the first self-actualized comic in history...
...with most productions in the A.R.T., all of the actors are superb. Dionysos himself, played with superhero-like gusto by Michael Edo Keane, entrances the audience from the moment he explodes onto the stage, confidently informing us, "I am the son of God!" Unlike the smirking and leering Winsome Brown '95 (the female Dionysos in the earlier production), Keane demonstrates a rich range of emotions. The audience laughs when he drops self-adoring one-liners, sighs when the Maenad chorus drapes themselves over him, shudders when he hollers in anger. This Dionysos is a creature with genuine power, which makes...
...cable guy finally showed up. No, this is not about getting my house wired for 500 channels. It's about a heroic investor who plugs into the cable industry and single-handedly rescues one of the decade's most imperiled collections of stocks. Who is this new-age superhero? None other than Supergeek, a.k.a. the mild-mannered computer kingpin, Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft. Last week, after Gates agreed to pump $1 billion into Comcast Corp., Wall Street revalued the entire industry upward by tens of billions of dollars. A buyers' panic rippled through the cable world, and the Standard...
...playing author Leslie Charteris' mysterious superhero, Kilmer got $8 million, a share of gross profits and the possibility of not only starring in but also helping produce a sequel. "I've tripled my price tag in the past two years," he says, "by being very fortunate in getting Batman, and then by just putting my head down and working a lot. I've moved into a league of the more proven...
Other cultural norms are turned on their heads under the category of "Superheroes," where visitors discover that, although the spandex-wearing ubermensches (and uberfraus) may be all the rage in the United States, in Europe they are used mostly for satirical purposes. Only in England does the serious superhero thrive, in incarnations like "Judge Dredd," found in the pages of adult comic weeklies like 2000 A.D. or Warriors. French and Belgian takes on the superhero yield either goofy results, like "Superdupont" by Gotlib and Jacques Lob, or satiric ones, as in the Italian "Ranxerox," a buffed-up, tank-top wearing...