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...sizes of choppers, bobbing and weaving like bumblebees in a barely controlled chaos amidst the smoke of fires burning along the Mississippi River below. They searched for Hurricane Katrina survivors in large venues like the Convention Center-where a lone military air traffic controller with the call sign "Superman 00" somehow directed the evacuation of the 5,000 people still stranded there-to less visible pockets of the city like apartment buildings and half-submerged highway overpasses. It was a surreal, almost apocalyptic scene that made the name the crew had given this particular CH-53-Voodoo Child-seem...
Christopher Reeve is flaunting a sleeker look thanks to Isaacson. The actor had pumped iron to beef up for his role as Superman, but a new movie role he wanted to play required a leaner line. Last June, Isaacson trekked to Williamstown, Mass., where Reeve was playing in summer stock, to set up a rigorous six-day-a-week trimming program. It began before breakfast with ten to 15 miles of bicycling, went on to lunchtime weight-lifting, some racquetball, running or tennis and finally, a half-mile swim before most of the evening performances. Reports the proud teacher...
...night before Christmas, when all through the Balkans/Not a brain cell was stirring--not even the Salkinds'. Alexander and Ilya Salkind are clever producers who love to make movies about sweet, heavily padded people who can fly: Superman and Supergirl. A big-budget fantasy about Santa Claus (the myth) might seem as natural as raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, but it's more like coal in Christmas stockings. As presented in this "nondenominational" version, Claus was a 13th century woodcutter who died and went to the North Pole, where he was greeted as the Chosen One and given...
...reached, but some fresh thoughts came to mind on the subject thanks to a new series by Paul Chadwick, Concrete: The Human Dilemma, and a recent panel I attended on the future of the graphic novel. Among the questions I found myself thinking about was this: Where does Superman stand on abortion? It seemed central to the debate...
Rants from the director and talk-show regular: "[Ben] Affleck is right for almost every role. Trying to fly a new Superman flick? Cast Affleck ... They're making another Jaws? Affleck can play the shark...