1.   So you want to play the hero?

2.   Analysts attribute the high numbers to his lingering celebrity as an actor who once played working-class heroes.

3.   As a kid growing up in chilly Minnesota, Sorbo says he always dreamed of playing the hero in movies.

4.   Benitez kept his cool, getting two outs to escape more harm and giving Hamilton and Payton a chance to play the heroes.

5.   But this was not a game in which Griffey, or any of the Mariners hitters, played the hero.

6.   Costner plays the hero, a creature with fins and gills who leads his flock to freedom.

7.   Denzel Washington plays heroes.

8.   Earlier reports had the production hunting for a star, but Richenthal has signed Liam Neeson to play the hero, John Proctor.

9.   He can play the hero, bow to national pressure, succumb to all the pats on the back.

10.   In the parlance of its poker- playing hero, this dumb-fun western draws a winning hand.