Where I'm from: Town of steel
Friday, June 23, 2006
METROPOLIS, Ill. -- At one end of the street, a 6-foot-6 guy named Lars is waving a hammer and pretending to be the Norse god of thunder. Nearby, a reporter for the French equivalent of Time magazine is interviewing a paunchy engineer wearing a cape. And somewhere amid all the chaos, the son of an Oscar-winning actress is preparing to get married in a Superman costume.
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