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Though I'll hang my head and admit that it wasn't until recently that I realized their powers were thematically based on the four elements. How could this have been made more obvious, y'know?
The Human Torch is Fire, and the Thing is Earth. I guess Invisible Woman has to be Wind/Air, right? Then Mr. Fantastic is Water because he's...kind of fluid?
Her hair was probably too long.
Spiderwoman did have a huge head of hair.
There was a superhero cartoon, with a female superhero no less, and David had never even heard of it?
I cannot find the words to convey my disappointment.
My comic geekery cert expired long ago. Now if Victor had never heard of it...
Plei, I had the Spiderwoman underoos, too. (we may not share a brain, but apparently knickers..)
Spider Woman had her own show?
nodnodnod
I used to watch it. It was good.
There's an interesting article on which of today's stars will be the classic stars of tomorrow over at Newsweek. The leading contenders seem to Russell Crowe, Daniel Day-Lewis, Reese Witherspoon, and Nicholas Cage.
Someone he didn't mention, but who I think is almost a definite, is Kate Winslett. Not only is she a fantasic actess, but she rarely makes a bad movie.
Winslet is a great choice.
Gael Garcia Bernal--although he isn't American.
Is Denzel in the "previous generation" category?
Kate Winslet is definitely going to have a legacy in Hollywood! It's hard to believe that she's not even 30 yet. She's someone that we don't hear too much of offscreen, even though she's married to a relatively big-name director, but her impact onscreen is huge. She fits in with the group of actors that the writer of that article points out started out acting in their mid to late teens (Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio), but unlike them, has grown into a full-fledged adult, and who looks like one, too.
I just read over at the NY Times a review of various big-name actors who are appearing on West End stages this summer (David Schwimmer, Ewan McGregor, Gael Garcia Bernal, Kevin Spacey, Val Kilmer) and the only one who they seem to think can really make on impact on stage is Neal Patrick Harris ("To find a male screen star in full command of a stage you would have had to venture into the small, airless Menier Theater at the Chocolate Factory in southeast London where Neil Patrick Harris - a popular television star in the 1990's as the boy doctor of "Doogie Howser, M.D.," who appeared on Broadway last year in Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins" - is showing how nicely he has grown up. Mr. Harris delivers a charming, emotionally focused central performance in the British premiere of "Tick, Tick ... Boom!," the autobiographical chamber musical by Jonathan Larson (of "Rent" fame), that achieves what his peers in celebrity in London do not: the illusion of absolute intimacy, of electrically stylized self-exposure.")
