Just thinking about Adam West who died at the weekend aged 88. He of course played Batman in the original 60s TV series. This made him something of a kitsch cult figure but he was much more than that. He was hugely influential. He and the series may have been as light and silly as a cartoon but without him there would have been no Christopher Reeve as Superman and certainly no Michael Keaton, George Clooney or Christian Bale as Batman in the later, multi-million dollar Hollywood blockbusters. No Spiderman, Wonder Woman or Guardians of the Galaxy either. So perhaps Adam West should be remembered with another piece of onomatopoeia – “Ker-ching!!”
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