Celluloid Heroes

You can do all these amazing things, and sometimes you think that you will burst wide open unless you can tell someone about it, don’t you?… There’s one thing I know for sure, son. And that is, you are here for a reason. I don’t know what it is, exactly, but I do know this much: it’s not to score touchdowns.

Pa Kent has passed.

Glenn Ford, best known to modern audiences as Clark Kent’s father in the 1978 Superman movie, died today at the age of 90. Ford, a native Canadian who became an American citizen in 1939. His film career dated back to 1937, interrupted when he served in the Marine Corps in World War II.

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