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Several major casting announcements have come down the pipeline for upcoming supehero movies, including Ryan Reynolds -- who recently starred as the Marvel vigilante Deadpool in "X-Men: Origins: Wolverine" -- beating out Bradley Cooper and Justin Timberlake for the starring role in the "Green Lantern" film about the ring-wielding DC superhero...

A few months ago I was writing profiles for Time.com's online poll leading up to the magazine's annual Time 100 list--basically 100 Person of the Year issues all rolled into one to sell twice as much ad space as the Person of the Year. In any event, my job was to come up with one reason why a person is influential, and one reason why they're not, theoretically giving the online reader the chance t