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It's time to try defying gravity.
You'd think we'd get accustomed to the sight of a person taking flight but we don't. When it happens in "Wicked" you can feel pulses race all over the theater. When I took my kid, years ago, to see Cathy Rigby in "Peter Pan," I inexplicably choked up when she flew out above us. It had something to do with sitting there with my young son sharing one of the basic dreams of childhood. And last night I was sitting in a movie theater munching popcorn, grinning like an idiot at "the Avengers" where, let's face it, some of the fun is the flying. In fact, here almost wasn't enough.
It also seems a little forbidden-by-the-gods. We all know what happened to Icarus, and two of the men who played Superman suffered tragic fates. So today on the show, we'll talk about humans flying. The dream. The illusion. The reality.
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