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In the earliest Superman comics, Clark Kent's primary purpose was to fulfill the perceived dramatic requirement that a costumed superhero cannot remain on full duty all the time.
Clark Kent's favorite movie is To Kill a Mockingbird ( in which Gregory Peck wears glasses not unlike Kent's ).
* In the 1970s, one suggestion was that the lenses of Clark Kent's glasses ( made of Kryptonian materials ) constantly amplified a low-level super-hypnosis power, thereby creating the illusion of others viewing Clark Kent as a weak and frailer being.
Since the shorts were produced during the rise of film noir in cinema, the change was usually represented as a stylized sequence: Clark Kent's silhouette is clearly seen behind a closed door's pebble glass window ( or a shadow thrown across a wall ) as he strips to his Superman costume.
The first film is in three sections: Kal-El's infancy on Krypton ( shot in London on the 007 stage ), Clark Kent's teen years in Smallville, and Kent / Superman's adult life in Metropolis ( shot in New York City ).
Ironically, it is also in the Reeve films that Clark Kent's persona has the greatest resemblance to Woody Allen, though his conscious model was Cary Grant's character in Bringing up Baby.
Clark Kent's character is given one of its heaviest emphases in the 1990s series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
The story has similarities to the 2001 television series Smallville, which follows Clark Kent's life as a teenager and into early adulthood.
Thanks to Clark Kent's appearance as Superman and Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen being given exclusive interviews and photographs, the paper's circulation increases 700 %.
On Clark Kent's eighteenth birthday, a glowing crystal reveals itself in the ship and compels Clark to take it north.
* Shelby ( dog ), Clark Kent's dog on the TV series Smallville
Gough and Millar called Kreuk to WB's studios in Burbank, California to audition for the role of Clark Kent's first love, Lana Lang.
In the earliest Golden Age Superboy comics, the name of Clark Kent's hometown is uncertain.
In the storyline " The Secret Rocket " ( 9 / 29 / 47-10 / 30 / 47 ), mention was made several times that young Clark Kent grew up on Eben Kent's farm in Iowa.
McKean played Perry White, who-in the Superman universe-ultimately becomes Clark Kent's boss.
Shuster named Clark Kent's paper The Daily Star in honour of The Toronto Daily Star.
Later Whitman performed the role of Clark Kent's father Jonathan Kent on the popular TV series Superboy.
Following the precedent set by Star Trek, these story arcs show alternative universes that have turned out " worse " than the " original " universe: in Stargate SG-1 the first two encountered parallel realities featured Earth being overwhelmed by an unstoppable Goa ' uld onslaught ; in Buffy, two episodes concern a timeline in which Buffy came to Sunnydale too late to stop the vampires from taking control ; Lois & Clark repeatedly visits an alternative universe where Clark Kent's adoptive parents, Jonathan and Martha Kent, died when he was ten years of age, and Lois Lane is also apparently dead.

Clark and hair
Unlike the Superboy story, Lex does not lose his hair in a disfiguring lab accident that he blames on Clark.
** On the Smallville TV series, a young Lex Luthor clone called Alexander Luthor turns out to have 50 % Kryptonian DNA ( from Clark ); his hair changes from red to Clark's hair color and he ends up being given the name " Conner Kent ".
Her red hair makes her very noticeable in the House of Lords and Alan Clark mentions her " vast arse " in his diaries.
Following this theme, an innovation unique to the series was the depiction of Clark Kent and Superman's traditional hairstyles being reversed – here it is Superman whose hair is slicked-back, and Clark whose fringe falls more naturally.
According to the New York Times, she " fit nicely with MSNBC's positioning as the news network of choice for younger viewers ", and executives at the network " also liked her frosted blond hair and trademark Clark Kent-style glasses.
In November 2006 James, long known for experimenting with his hairstyle, was mildly ridiculed on the BBC's Match Of The Day for wearing his hair in a style similar to that of fictional character Clark Kent.
One fascist magazine commented on the male Zazou, “ Here is the specimen of Ultra Swing 1941: hair hanging down to the neck, teased up into an untidy quiff, little moustache à la Clark Gable ... shoes with too-thick soles, syncopated walk .”
When taken to a hospital emergency room on January 3, 1981, Clark writes, Cash " could not walk, and had lost large patches of skin and clumps of hair.
This is very similar to the character of Superman, and his alter ego Clark Kent, even his outfit, straightening of hair, and use of glasses to conceal himself.

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To demonstrate the soil of his vegetable gardens as it is today, Mr. Clark stooped to scoop up a handful of rich dark earth.
Writing in a large volume on the nude in painting and sculptures, titled The Nude: A Study In Ideal Form, Kenneth Clark declares: `` The human body, as a nucleus, is rich in associations.
The 1961 theme is the Dakota Territorial Centennial, with the pictures including the Lewis and Clark expedition, the first river steamboat, the 1876 gold rush, a little red schoolhouse on the prairie, and today's construction of large Missouri River reservoirs.
* Bill Evans's overdubbed piano elegy for fellow jazz pianist Sonny Clark is titled " N. Y. C.
* 1953 – Operation Moolah is initiated by General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots.
The province is currently governed by the BC Liberal Party, led by Premier Christy Clark, who became leader as a result of the party election on February 26, 2011.
Citing research by John Green, who found that several contemporary British Columbia newspapers regarded the alleged capture as very dubious, Clark notes that the Mainland Guardian of New Westminster, British Columbia, wrote, " Absurdity is written on the face of it.
He is one of ten San Francisco Giants to appear on the cover, along with Kelly Downs, Rick Reuschel, Willie Mays ( nine times ), Alvin Dark, Juan Marichal, Will Clark, Tim Lincecum ( twice ), Brian Wilson, and Buster Posey.
The Pend Oreille river system ( including its main tributaries, the Clark Fork and Flathead rivers ) is also similar in size to the Columbia at their confluence.
With studied playfulness, Smith and Lovecraft borrowed each other's coinages of place names and the names of strange gods for their stories, though so different is Smith's treatment of the Lovecraft theme that it has been dubbed the ' Clark Ashton Smythos '.
In a letter to P. Schuyler Miller and John D. Clark in 1936 only three months before Howard's death, Conan is described as standing and weighing when he takes part in an attack on Venarium at only 15 years old, though being far from fully grown.
* Joe Marek chronology — Joe Marek's chronology is limited to stories written ( or devised ) by Howard, though within that context it is essentially a revision of the Miller / Clark tradition to better reflect the internal evidence of the stories and avoid forcing Conan into what he perceives as a " mad dash " around the Hyborian world within timeframes too rapid to be credible.
Clark Kent is a fictional character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
To deflect suspicion that he is Superman, Clark Kent adopted a largely passive and introverted personality with conservative mannerisms, a higher-pitched voice, and a slight slouch.
In the Pre-Crisis comic book title Superman Family, Clark is featured in a series of stories called " The Private Life of Clark Kent ," where he solves problems subtly without changing into Superman.
Adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent from the Kansas town of Smallville, Clark ( and thus Superman ) was raised with the values of a typical rural American town, including attending the local Methodist Church ( though it is debated by comic fans if Superman is a Methodist ).
Feeling that Clark is the real person and that Clark is not afraid to be himself in his civilian identity, John Byrne has stated in interviews that he took inspiration for this portrayal from the George Reeves version of Superman.
As of One Year Later, Clark is in his mid-thirties, stands at, and weighs about.

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