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STA friend John Brooks of My ReViews is a huge superhero fan, so we asked him to report back to us on how Gwyneth Paltrow did playing an assistant in Iron Man. Paltrow plays Virginia “Pepper” Potts, the redheaded Girl Friday to Robert Downey Jr.’s boss Tony Stark.

There are a lot of reasons we love Iron Man (which grossed over a jillion dollars this past weekend): Robert Downey Jr. as millionaire industrialist womanizing player-turned superhero Tony Stark; the amazing effects; the fact that it contains actual, three-dimensional human characters; that awesome superhero suit;  Robert Downey Jr. And call us self-absorbed, but what we love most is the portrayal of Tony’s personal assistant, Pepper Potts. And so let us take this opportunity to bestow mad STA props to the following:-To Gwyneth Paltrow, for not thinking she’s too good to take on an assistant job, even when she is only playing one in an enormously-budgeted Hollywood epic.

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