Word: supermans
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DIED. JERRY SIEGEL, 81, co-creator of Superman; in Los Angeles. In a single fateful bound in 1938, Siegel and his artist partner Joe Shuster leaped to sell their Superman rights to Detective Comics for a mere $130. In 1975, long after the Man of Steel had become a man of gold (and his two creators had drifted into near poverty), Warner Communications, which by then owned the rights, agreed to restore the two men's bylines and give them annual stipends for life...
Joking aside, the Reeve interview and feature, which ran the length of 20/20 on Sept. 29 (the newsmagazine's highest-rated program in more than two years), were one of Walters' finer hours. Once past the hokey intro ("I think he's more Superman now than ever before"), she was host of a compelling session in which Reeve, speaking on the exhale through his ventilator, let the viewer feel the despair he felt when he first realized what had happened to him, the panic that hit him the first few times his ventilator stopped functioning, the love of his family...
...mean that you can't take off," he retorted. "I mean, look at the shuttle program. Every now and then one blows up. But they keep on going, Bubba. We might have a bad year or two. But overall it's going to be up and away, like Superman...
That attack further smudged the Serb superman image. The main punch in the offensive was provided by units of the Croatian army, a highly motivated and well-equipped force that, as Michael Williams of London's International Institute for Strategic Studies describes it, "is as underrated now as the Bosnian Serb army was overrated then." Warning that the Croats will soon dominate the Muslims, a source close to Milosevic calls the Zagreb-Sarajevo coalition "a marriage made in hell." That's the kind of language that could get a new myth started...
...high school heroes were thought to be. There was music in that name; even he said it sounded "made up." He was a country boy in the big city. He came along at a time when the TV set became the centerpiece of the living room. He was Superman in pinstripes. The eternal debate as to who was the best centerfielder in New York City, Mantle, Willie Mays of the Giants or Duke Snider of the Dodgers, was really no contest, even though Mantle personally deferred to Mays. According to Roger Angell, the peerless baseball writer for The New Yorker...