Jaxson Denno was so excited when he learned that Iron Man was nearby and would be glad to meet him. Alas, he had been deceived. Only Iron Man actor Robert Downey, Jr. was available:
Only problem: Downey, in the Western Massachusetts towns of Sunderland and Shelburne Falls to shoot his latest, The Judge, was not wearing his Iron Man outfit.
That did not please Jaxson, as this photo shows.Not to worry, though – Downey, 48, soon brought a smile to the boy's face.
"He was fine as soon as he talked to him," Jaxson's mother, Heather Denno, told PEOPLE, explaining that her young son "was so confused because I kept telling him it was Iron Man and he knew it wasn't. Well, not Iron Man in the suit."
(Photo: Heather Denno)
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As for Sparta, I don't think it's viable to look back on their culture from 2010 and just condemn their militaristic culture. If a society wishes to protect itself, it needs people who know how to fight. If a society wants to wage war, it needs the same. Spartan society became rich and powerful in part because Spartans knew how to fight. Even if you might think that a bad choice from your modern viewpoint, it was a choice that worked for them and we should try to understand it, not condemn it. It's ancient history, after all. Condemnation serves no purpose. Even today, you would not condemn a German that you met in the street for the Holocaust. And that was but a few years ago.