Faster than a speeding bullet; more powerful than political correctness (Superman vulnerable to attacks by the politically correct movement).

He may be the Man of Steel, but even Canadian-made superhero icon Superman is vulnerable to attacks from the dark forces of political correctness. Actually, it was Superman's young chum since the 1930s, Jimmy Olsen, the amiable, hyperkinetic and skirt-chasing cub news photographer from the Daily Planet, who fell under the shadow of the PC forces. According to the January issue of Focus on the Family's Citizen magazine, a draft script for Superman 5, a movie slated for release in 2004, featured little Jimmy Olsen as an ambiguous homosexual. The "re-imagined" image was the work of Hollywood spin man J.J. Abrams. When it hit the Internet, however, fans of the comic superhero were not impressed, calling the changes "horrible," "ridiculous" and an "abomination" that "sucks more than red kryptonite." A petition against the new script started to circulate online faster than a speeding bullet, but the word is that Warner Brothers had enough tomatoes thrown its way to decide to restore Jimmy's heterosexual status. Till next time ...