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No.206 SIM音読用英文

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Super-Hero Creator Stan Lee Still Purveying Wonder
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Stan Lee has dreamed up

some of the most memorable characters

who ever made the move

from the pages of comic books to the movie screen.

Working with several artists at Marvel Comics,

he created or co-created

the Mighty Thor, the X-Men, Dr. Strange, Daredevil,

and many other characters.

The most popular is Spider-Man.

A bite from an irradiated spider transformed teenaged Peter Parker

into a super-hero,

but he still faced adolescent problems,

from acne to nervousness around girls.

Lee says all his super-heroes had human failings.

"I tried to show

that even though they had super power,

everything wasn't perfect

in their lives.

They still had to worry about earning a living,

about their relationship with other people,

about their families and their health and so forth.

And I tried to make them real people

who happened to have super powers.

And apparently that little shade of a difference was the main thing
 
that made the characters as popular as they became."

Lee is active in many aspects of the entertainment business

through his company POW! Entertainment.

"And that stands for 'purveyors of wonder.'

And we're doing movies and television shows and DVDs,

and I'm creating new characters,

and probably having more fun

than I've ever had."

He is creating a cartoon series

with former Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr,

and another with celebrity-socialite Paris Hilton.

He is working on film projects with Disney Pictures,

producing video games

and content for the Internet and for mobile phones.

"There is so much going on today,

and entertainment has become so important

where it used to be just movies and comic books.

Then television came along.

And now it's movies, television, comics, the Internet, and the DVDs,
the cell phones.

I mean, wherever you look, there are new types and new methods

of the media and of entertainment,

and it's really a very exciting world

we live in."

He says the challenge

of thinking up new characters and stories

keeps his work exciting.
    
Mike O'Sullivan, VOA News, Los Angels. (16 August 2007)
(Material is provided courtesy of voanews.com.)
by danueno | 2007-08-22 10:37 | SIM音読用英文


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