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Audiences in search of funny girls have learned to forsake the theater for Valerie and Mary on the smaller screen. Mary opts for the soft approach. Every week, as Mary Richards, the effervescent assistant TV producer, she manages to discover fresh comic possibilities in herself and her supporting cast... On Mary's shows, nothing is sacred and few things are profane: sex, inflation, urban miseries and small-time office politics are alive and laughing on prime time... Between them, the two very different, identical comediennes are the season's brightest clowns. On every show they prove that women need...
...they would pay to see it again. (You usually have to bomb Baghdad to get that kind of approval ratings.) People have always liked Spider-Man: compared with the ultrasquare alien Superman and the brooding millionaire Batman, Spidey's an accidental superhero, a geeky and self-doubting teen, a comic-book character who seems a lot like a comic-book reader. Forty years after Spider-Man's birth, Marvel is still selling four different monthly Spider-Man titles that together add up to about 500,000 copies. "Everybody identifies with him," says Amy Pascal, chairwoman of Sony's Columbia Pictures...
...Toyota Camrys were driven off the lot that first week. But movies, as our proudest and most exciting cultural export, are monitored by Americans the way they used to watch the NASDAQ. There's a kind of pride that we can blow $115 million in one weekend on a comic-book movie; Spider-Man was our May Day. And if $115 million of fun was going on in one weekend, people want to be at the party...
...interpretive biography" of Dr. Martin Luther King. Now, ten years after volume one we have the penultimate chapter. (Anderson intends to release part three next year.) Historical biography with African-American characters, created by an African-Canadian artist who has kept us waiting a decade for its continuation: if comic prices are truly based on scarcity each copy of this book will be worth thousands...
Person of the Week THE FORCE IS STRONG The comic book epic Spider-Man kicked off the blockbuster season with an amazing $144.2 million take through May 8. But with Star Wars: Episode II?Attack of the Clones generating a storm of buzz and set to open May 16, will Spidey get squashed like a, well...