Imagine you're a television producer in 1976. You've secured the biggest star on the planet to appear on your new athletic special. You assume that just having Lynda Carter on Battle of the Network Stars is enough to guarantee a win because, in the minds of the public, she is Wonder Woman. You don't bother with a training regimen, you don't check her swimming splits, and you certainly don't account for the fact that she's competing against seasoned athletes like Gabe Kaplan who treat a tug-of-war like a blood sport. I've seen this happen in retrospectives and modern reboots alike — the fatal error of confusing a star's "on-screen persona" with their "off-screen engine." When
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