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Although “Airplane!” is mainly spoofing contemporaneous hits, like “Airport” and “Superman,” almost all of the gags are still really funny. The few that are somewhat dated, like the unnecessary fey gay stereotype—Johnny in the control tower—are so outweighed by the ones that are still hilarious that they barely matter...
...than most of their peers.SOLDIER SNAPSHOT“I was tired of being at school,” says Ryan A. Delany ’08. “It was a chance to play G. I. Joe for a couple of years.” Delany, in a Superman T-shirt, aviator sunglasses, leather jacket, and heavy black boots, looks the part of soldier/badass. But this tough-guy persona is no act. Having graduated high school in 1999, Delany joined the Marines, pushing college aside. “I needed a chance to grow up,” Delany...
DIED. DANA REEVE, 44, singer, actress and widow of Superman actor Christopher Reeve who raised millions for research on treatments for paralysis after her husband became a quadriplegic after a 1995 horseback-riding accident; of lung cancer; in New York City. Reeve, a nonsmoker who lost her husband in 2004 and her mother just four months later, had her cancer diagnosed last August...
...Many people think he looks like Superman,” Reeves says. At Harvard, Johnson was a handsome football player, the “least gay man you had ever seen,” Reeves says. It wasn’t love at first sight the night they met in the Eliot dining hall (Reeves was dating someone else at the time), but Johnson’s caring nature struck Reeves...
...parent and an educator, I was surprised at the ''plus ca change . . .'' impression given by your piece on children's toys (LIVING, Dec. 22). Are you assuming that Rambo occupies the same role as Daniel Boone or Superman in children's fantasies and contributes in the same way to their moral and social development? If the historical trend toward more explicitly violent heroes is so benign, why have we seen such a dramatic increase in real violence in our society over the past several decades...