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Article: TYPECASTING NO BURDEN FOR `HERCULES'.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- August 30, 1997
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Byline: Michael H. Price Fort Worth Star-Telegram The New York Times
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Clothes make the barbarian.
So Kevin Sorbo - with his long locks trimmed to his collar and wearing a T-shirt and jacket in lieu of a loincloth - didn't look much like his TV alter-ego, Hercules, as he hit town in a limo last week. Nor could he pass for the primitive warlord Kull, his character in the movie Kull the Conqueror, which opened Friday.
Typecasting has become a life sentence for so many action stars - Johnny Weissmuller will ALWAYS be Tarzan - that one might think Sorbo, 38, had purposely chosen the new look to prevent being known as the new ...