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Times weren't always so flush in Toontown. In 1997, "George Clooney killed comic-book movies," says Millar. Joel Schumacher's joyless Batman & Robin, in which Clooney legendarily donned a bat suit complete with rubber nipples, left fans feeling abused. Studios turned their attention to fantasy literature like Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings. But when Spider-Man bested two wizard movies and a Star Wars prequel in 2002 and X-2: X-Men United broke $200 million at the box office in 2003, hand-drawn heroes swung back into favor. The joke in Hollywood now is that...
...contrast, it took only a few hours to catch the killer in Kathryn Harrison's While They Slept (Random House; 290 pages). Early on the morning of April 27, 1984, Billy Frank Gilley Jr., then 18, beat his parents and his sister Becky to death with a baseball bat in their home in Oregon. He said afterward that he did it to save himself and his other sister Jody from an abusive domestic situation. He imagined that they would run away together. Jody called...
...It’s sometimes really hard to instill in the freshmen that it’s all about the team,” co-captain Lindsay Hart said. “But every freshman this year really embraced the idea of the team. Right off the bat, it was one of the easiest and most fun groups to lead.” In that spirit, freshmen made up the majority of each of the Crimson’s three record-setting freestyle relay teams. Freshman Katy Hinkle turned in some impressive performances of her own, setting two school records...
...ever bat around the idea of a This International Life? Dominic Girard, TORONTO...
...Harvard got off to a good start as Henderson got on base and scored on a Lauren Murphy single to left. Henderson was the only Crimson player to score until the seventh inning, when Harvard trailed 8-1. In the bottom of the seventh, Macadam came to bat with one out and two runners in scoring position. The rookie connected for a two-RBI shot to left field, but two fly outs ended the game before the rally could gain momentum. —Staff writer Julia R. Senior can be reached at jrsenior@fas.harvard.edu...