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Behold, I teach you the superman. The superman is the meaning of the earth...
...invested much of the rest in the adventures of Tarzan, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. Imitating and burlesquing such heroes, he began concocting science-fiction tales that he mimeographed and sold to other students. One of Siegel's lesser creations was a story called The Reign of the Superman, which featured an evil scientist with a bald head. Superman as villain? The thought is enough to make posterity shudder. But this was not the stuff of greatness. It was only during a sleepless summer night in 1934, after Siegel had graduated, that the grand inspiration came: Superman as hero...
...Brooks' beguilingly skeptical romance, Jane is the Lois Lane of the '80s, a newswoman whose affections are torn between a Clark Kent reporter (Albert Brooks) and a flawed Superman-anchorman (William Hurt). The male leads had long been cast, but until just before rehearsals, Jim Brooks was still looking for his "little steamroller." Debra Winger, who had shone in his Terms of Endearment, was pregnant and unavailable. Sigourney Weaver, Mary Beth Hurt, Christine Lahti, Judy Davis -- all were fine, but nobody was right...
...Yale Bowl turf, and a large steel object resembling a central heating unit was being lowered into the resulting hole and the field was being sodded by a single unknown figure wearing a Yale hockey jersey and blue sunglasses. Cozza said, "Wow, he's great. He must be a superman. Where is he? I need him for the defensive line...
...that's true," said police captain Rizzo O'Grady, "then he's a superman...