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...pauses as a new thought occurs to him: "You know, it's the way I used to feel when I would go to see sick people or handicapped people in the Superman years. I was called on to go everywhere as a kind of symbol--to Sloan-Kettering to see terminally ill children, to the Make a Wish Foundation, where the kid's last request is to meet me, you know, even though I'm not Superman. Indulge in the fantasy of meeting the person who plays Superman. Sometimes they didn't even make a distinction. I could show...
...bothers me when people say, 'You played Superman; now you are Superman.' They mean well, but they don't know what I go through in the middle of the night. I don't know. I guess that if part of the definition of Superman is that you keep on going even if you feel like shit, then I suppose I do reasonably well...
...only does it but takes deep pleasure in it. "You run until you almost throw up three or four times a week, but you're outside, you're competing," he explains. "And you get into this feeling that you could just run forever. You feel like a superman sometimes...
...plane over New York City. He needs to reach his main witness (Williams) before some malevolent brutes erase her identity by wiping her out. Figuring that the shortest distance between two points is straight down, Arnold throws a parachute out the plane door, jumps after it, flies like Superman to catch up with it, then dodges the plane as it circles back to kill...
Johnson may seem like Superman on the track, but he is decidedly Clark Kent off it. "He hasn't changed a bit since he came to me as a freshman," says Hart, who has been coaching at Baylor for 33 years. "Good head on his shoulders, great work ethic even then. His parents did an excellent job of raising...