Word: supermans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...What do you think of it?" Johnson asks Hart. "Well," says the coach, "I think the U.S.A. insignia is too subtle and the Nike swoosh is too bright. But that's the point, I guess." Just then another of Hart's runners, Marlon Ramsey, walks by. "Look, it's Superman," Ramsey says to Johnson, one of his probable partners on the U.S. 4 x 400-m relay team in Atlanta. "But, hey, what happened to your cape...
...movies, Superman would have been there to catch the falling Lois Lane. But this was not celluloid, and actress MARGOT KIDDER, left, in 1992, has crash-landed. Due in Phoenix to teach an acting class, the once fast-living co-star of the Superman movies inexplicably turned up in the backyard of a suburban L.A. home, bedraggled and hysterical. Police took her to a psychiatric hospital. For a time in the early '90s, the thrice-divorced Kidder had been wheelchair-bound after a car crash. Her career faded. Recently she's been holed up in Montana, writing her autobiography: Calamities...
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...
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...