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...Kennedy and his family; in gossip columns and tabloids; and at times in official documents belatedly released. Together, these revelations form a tawdry counterpoint to the much brighter images that continue to dominate Kennedy's popular reputation. Against the heroic, romantic vision of Kennedy as a brilliant young superman stands the picture of an irresponsible libertine who bought his way into the presidency and then shamelessly abused...
That this profane creation could have been mistaken for a calcified Superman with a biblical pedigree evokes patronizing chuckles today. But Jacobs, an undersung writer (Beautiful Soup, The Egg of the Glak and Other Stories), treats bunkum and hypocrisy as endearingly ambivalent national traits. Unsurprisingly, his all-time champion of this view is P.T. Barnum, who at one point tells General Tom Thumb that "our mission is to startle and amuse, to make our audience pay too much for too little and forget to hang us from the nearest lamppost...
...quick breakfast they're beckoned to an adjacent room by a blank TV screen. Taken in hand by the remote control, they are led through a world populated by Power Rangers, Animaniacs, the Cryptkeeper, Cap'n Crunch, Hulk Hogan, the Incredible Hulk, the Mighty Ducks, Rugrats, Spider-Man, Superman, Pinky and the Brain, Barbie, Nightmare Ned, The Undertaker...
...shaggy-gods story with the requisite Disney theme of adolescent self-discovery: a cub becomes a lion; a mermaid becomes a maid; a geek kid becomes a Greek god. Hercules (voiced by Tate Donovan) is your basic mythic hybrid--half man, half deity--recast as a clumsy teen. Superman-strong and Bambi-naive, Herc is an ideal foil for wily Meg (a subtle siren, wonderfully voiced by Susan Egan). She plays Barbara Stanwyck to his Eddie Bracken, while a gruff satyr (Danny DeVito) acts as Herc's mentor and parries the anti-Olympus scheming of Hades (James Woods...
...profits in buying the local comic-book store. And sure, he claims that moviemaking--especially with his girlfriend as leading lady and a close buddy as producer--is "an easy way to avoid manual labor." But what about the pressure of writing the script for Warner Bros.' big-budget Superman Lives? "I got $325,000 and six weeks to do it," he says. "But I procrastinated, so I had to write it in a week." He is developing a TV series. His next film, Dogma--a satire in which God is a woman, Jesus is black and drug dealers return...