While Democrats retake the Senate, Senator Chuck Schumer takes the reins as the Senate majority leader. Second in command is Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, who serves as the Senate’s pro tempore president, making him the third in the presidential succession line. Leahy, who has been in the Senate since 1975, is not only the senior senator from Vermont, but is also a big Batman fan.
Leahy’s passion for comics began as a child when he read comics at the Kellogg-Hubbard library in Vermont. He wrote the preface to Dark Knight Archives, Volume 1, the preface essay for Batman: death of innocents (a story that details the horrors of landmines), and the introduction to the Green Arrow: The Archer’s Quest. Leahy also wrote the forward for Detective Comics: 80 years of Batman, where he wrote that “Entering the world of Batman through my imagination opened an early door to an eternal love for reading.”
In addition, Leahy appeared in special roles in five Batman films: Batman forever, Batman and Robin, The dark Knight, The Dark Knight Risesand Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. He also gave a politician a voice in an episode of Batman: the animated series.
In front of 80 years of Batman, he wrote “Batman prevailed through superior intellect and detective skills, through the freedoms provided by great wealth and pure will, … not superpowers, but skill, science and rationality.” Leahy donated all of his earnings and royalties as an actor to charities, with most funds going to the same library where he fell in love with comics as a child.
Well, that is some daily heroism that we can leave behind.
(via CNN, image: Warner Bros.)
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“It has always been a pleasure to sit at the table. And listen to your stories,” wrote Oprah. “Thank you, Larry King.”
How celebrities and journalists are remembering the longtime broadcaster: https://t.co/2ELjccjaJr
– The New York Times (@nytimes) January 23, 2021
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