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Claire Bennet vs Samantha LaRusso: Two Teenage Heroes, Two Completely Different Battles

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 Two teenage girls. Two hugely popular television franchises. Two very different ideas of what it means to survive. Claire Bennet from Heroes and Samantha LaRusso from Cobra Kai may come from completely different worlds, but their stories share more DNA than it first appears. Claire is the cheerleader who discovers that her body can regenerate from almost any injury. Sam is the daughter of Daniel LaRusso, raised in the shadow of one of cinema and television’s most recognizable martial-arts legacies. One possesses an extraordinary supernatural ability. The other has to survive with nothing more than training, determination, family support and her own ability to overcome fear. That difference makes their comparison fascinating. Claire Bennet: The Girl Who Was Never Allowed to Be Normal When Heroes introduced Claire Bennet, she initially looked like an ordinary American teenager. She was a cheerleader. She worried about school, relationships, popularity and her family. Then she dis...
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Russell Crowe’s Reluctant Myth

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  By titan007 The first thing to know about Russell Crowe is that the persona arrived before the man had a chance to introduce himself. “Hollywood Hard Man,” the tabloids insisted, as if a headline could double as a birth certificate. Crowe didn’t coin the phrase so much as inherit it, a hand-me-down stitched together from clenched jaws, gladiatorial roars, and a couple of very public eruptions that still trail his name like a weather system. But the second thing to know—the more interesting thing—is that behind the hard carapace is an artist of old-fashioned seriousness: an actor who treats performance like a craft, a musician who refuses to stop touring dive bars and theatres, and a New Zealand-born, Australia-shaped citizen who never quite sat still long enough to be pinned to one flag. He’s a paradox built for the widescreen: the brawler with a library card; the movie star who talks about method and mistakes with equally cool dispassion; the farm owner who once sang as Russ L...
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