Confessions of a Superhero Page #3

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They won the national champions,

didn't they?

They won the cheer-off.

It wasn't the national--

It was a cheer-off

at six flags over Georgia.

But they'd never done

that before.

No.

People thought

that I should love high school

And that I should--

I was voted miss union county

in high school

And best all-around

my senior year,

And I was homecoming Queen.

I was on homecoming court

my Junior year,

And I was voted miss freshman

And always--you would think

that I had a lot of fun,

But I hated high school.

I graduated early

to get out of there.

I just hated it so bad.

I just felt like

I was suffocating in that town.

(Karen Wenger)

she made a few "b"s,

you know, mostly "a"s,

And she made a few "b"s,

But that wasn't the important

thing for her in school.

It was socializing.

That was what she was here for:

To make everybody happy

By spreading

her own little quality,

Own little brand of sunshine

Around everybody's day

every day.

She thought that she

was put here to entertain

The people here.

This wasn't where she

was supposed to go and learn.

I always liked to perform.

Cheerleading, you know,

I loved to choreograph dances

and stuff like that.

So performing

was what I wanted to do.

I knew that.

She done many a musical or play

up there.

If people were gonna be

on a stage,

She wanted to be there too.

[mechanical whirring]

Here's what happened the day

I decided to move to L.A.

I was at college.

I was a college cheerleader,

and I came home for fall break,

And I just laid on the floor

and cried.

She always had that little bit

of unhappiness about her.

She could never be

happy here.

And she and I were sitting

in the living room.

She was kind of upset

one night,

And she's like, "I'm never gonna

get to be what I want to be,

"do what I want to do,

you know.

I'm stuck here

in this town."

And it was just

blah, blah, blah.

She was real upset,

and I said,

"Jenny,

if you want to go, go.

And she said,

"well, do you want to get

on a plane and go to L.A.?"

And I said, "yes."

It's like she totally knew.

She goes, "how soon

do you think I could go?"

I said,

"when do you want to go?"

She said,

"I want to go tomorrow."

I said, "okay,

we'll book a flight."

And she was gone,

just like that.

Mm-hmm.

Well, the reason why

I moved out here is,

You know, at a young age,

you know, I had this acting bug.

And I'm from North Carolina,

so, you know,

It can really get pretty boring,

And, you know, you want to go

see other things in life,

So I was like,

"you know what?"

I just sold my super nintendo,

Got me a greyhound bus ticket,

and headed out here.

When I first got here,

The Rodney king riots

had started.

It was, like,

the second day of it.

It was like a wakeup call.

"welcome to L.A.," you know.

Got to town,

riots were going on.

I was a scared young black man,

didn't know what to do,

Saw all these, you know,

cops, undercovers,

Busting all the looters.

My thing was to get to safety

and find refuge,

So being a country boy,

I said, "you know what?

"I'm headed for the hills,

'cause I know ain't no looters

gonna run up here, you know."

My biggest obstacle, you know,

trying to make it out here

As being an actor,

you know, my teeth.

You know--

you know, every--you know,

Every celebrity

that I know in Hollywood

Has perfect white teeth.

And but, you know,

people keep telling me,

"oh, well, look at

Steve Buscemi's teeth."

I say,

"well, that's Steve Buscemi.

"you know, he's been in the game

longer than I have,

And people just accept him."

Hey, what's up?

(man)

how are you?

How you doing?

You know, I'm still

in a, you know, a hard rock,

You know, out here,

trying to change my life.

You know, it's not easy.

What's up, guys?

Hey.

How you doing?

Are you hot?

No, I'm used to it.

[laughs]

I feel so much like a loser,

because I didn't come out here

To get in a costume

and stand on Hollywood boulevard

To make chump change.

You know, I'm out here seriously

Trying to make a name

for myself.

Howdy.

To me, it was a different way

of panhandling.

I have to say "performing,"

you know, for money.

You know, and that's basically

what I see it as.

Originally, I'm from Texas.

I was born and raised there.

Born in Austin,

raised in Houston and Dallas,

And then lived in Waco

The last few years

I was in Texas.

Youngest of, you know,

three kids,

An older brother,

an older sister.

You know the whole scenario.

So yeah,

kind of a rambunctious kid,

Let's just say,

Rebellious, and then--

So it was kind of

a rough childhood.

Batman, I just--

I kind of fit in to it.

It just kind of fell in place

more or less in '87.

I didn't really start

to get into acting

Till about '89.

And it was just extra work,

And of course, you need money

to invest into, like, headshots

And everything else.

And of course, at the time,

I didn't have it.

So it took me--

you know, it's an investment.

Acting is actually

an investment.

Then everybody

started telling me,

"you know, you look just like

George Clooney,"

And I couldn't figure out

who George Clooney was,

So of course, er.

So that made it even worse

for me as an actor,

Because, you know,

now you're a look-alike.

I've actually got a black belt

in tae kwon do,

Got one in tiger kung fu.

I studied ninjutsu for a bit,

And then of course,

I know hand-to-hand

From the special forces

training.

So of course, I started doing

look-alike things,

You know, trying to, you know,

fit in somewhere.

And that's when I met superman,

superman Chris.

And he'd been doing superman

out in the boulevard

For, God, 11 years.

And so he said, "you know,

you should come out

And work with me

as George Clooney,"

Of course, the doctor from er,

and that's how I started out.

Well, I like Batman.

I think the whole deal

is pretty good.

He gets a lot of attention

on the boulevard.

He's done birthday parties

and has done Christmas parties

At, like,

elderly high-rises as--

Actually, that he doesn't do

as Batman.

He does his Dr. Douglas Ross,

Because he looks like

George Clooney.

And, um...

But yeah, it's a living.

It helps pay the bills,

'cause I'm disabled,

So I'm not able to work

right now.

My relationship with my wife

is very good.

Well, my wife,

I guess she likes--

My wife likes what I do.

She actually wishes, of course,

I made more money

at doing it,

But she's kind of proud

of the fact

That she can tell people

that she's married to Batman,

For one thing, and the fact

that I look like George Clooney.

She likes that fact too.

(Sandra)

"describe Maxwell."

Well, he's--all in all,

he's a good man.

He's a good provider.

He's spontaneous,

very protective,

Protective of what he loves

and what he cares about.

He has a bit of a anger problem.

He doesn't necessarily

take the anger out on me,

But he usually tends

to get angry over things

That he cannot control.

Love you.

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