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...Bird . . . It's a Plane . . . It's SUPERMAN is an amiable mediocrity of a musical, capable only of inspiring benign indifference...
...Kent, reporter for the Daily Planet, Superman is heckled by a Winchellesque gossipist with an ego bigger than
...Superman's. Jack Cassidy plays the role with preening self-adoration, and cuts some old vaudeville song-and-dance routines right down to their knees for the supplest satire in the show. But Superman's chief foe is a mad scientist and perennial Nobel Prize dropout: "I've bought ten tickets to Stockholm." Played by Michael O'Sullivan in his best witch-minus-broomstick style, the scientist seeks revenge by attempting to destroy the symbol of goodness in Metropolis. He brain-shrinks Superman (a difficult feat) with the suggestion that being rocketed out from the exploding...
...challenging when he recalled his 40 years as "sultan, vizier, pasha and emir" of assorted public enterprises. The final frustration for Lindsay came at legislative committee hearings, when Bob Wagner questioned the desirability of a transit czar with the acerbic comment that the official "would need to be Superman and Batman rolled into...
...pace. Breaking reading down to simple steps that lead a child progressively toward more difficult words, yet do not bore him, was Sullivan's greatest problem. His first attempts failed badly. A member of his team at the time, Psychologist Allen Calvin, tried programming a Superman story, found that it held kids' interest about nine times longer than the reading program. Even a programmed version of a Sears, Roebuck catalogue did five times better. "We were terribly discouraged," recalls Sullivan...