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STEPHEN COLBERT cameos in SPIDER-MAN comic...
...measure that sensitivity, researchers conducted two tests. In one, they showed volunteers a series of photos that included some threatening images - for example, a picture of a man with a spider on his face or an infected open wound - while measuring the electrical conductance of the volunteers' skin, a technique also used in polygraph testing. In a separate experiment, researchers subjected the volunteers to sudden bursts of loud white noise to test their startle reflexes, measured by sensors attached to the muscle below the eye that recorded how hard people blinked...
...their money. Now investors are demanding that studios lower their distribution fees, market their films with more discipline and, most importantly, stop cherry-picking the best films from their slates. In the earliest deals, studios withheld their biggest potential hits from the funds - Sony kept all earnings from its Spider-Man sequels, for example, while investors picked up the tabs for under-performers like The Other Boleyn Girl and RV. Under the new deals, investors are demanding a piece of more of the sure things and right of refusal on less promising prospects...
These are precisely the kinds of challenges that gave rise to Stand Up to Cancer, the advocacy group organized by CBS newscaster Katie Couric and eight other women, all of them connected to Hollywood, including Spider-Man producer Laura Ziskin, who has breast cancer. Says Couric, who lost her husband and sister to cancer: "It was clear to me and other people that this borders on the ridiculous. You ask yourself: What can be done?" SU2C has a scheduled Sept. 5 launch with an unprecedented three-network simulcast, hosted by Couric, Brian Williams and Charles Gibson. It features a roster...
STEPHEN COLBERT gets California spider named after him (but not one of those liberal San Francisco spiders...