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...three TV series and a movie. Now Tim Story (Barbershop) tries to please both fans and civilians. The tricky thing about a comic-book franchise is that if you make a movie pure enough for the cultists, it may confuse Joe Multiplex. "I remember when the fans found out Spider-Man wasn't going to have web shooters," Story says. "It was like a march on Washington. But the spirit of Spider-Man was captured, and so they relinquished that fight. I'm kind of in the same boat. It's about trying to capture the spirit...
...asks, How'd he get that way? George Lucas has traced his signature hero and villain back to their boyhoods--Indy with the Young Indiana Jones TV series, Darth Vader with three Star Wars episodes. But the megamovie template for a coming-of-age fantasy saga is the 2002 Spider-Man, which earned $800 million worldwide and spawned its own robust franchise. If the strategy works, it feeds Hollywood's itch to be endlessly self-derivative. First comes the remake--or, in mogul-speak, the reimagining--then the sequels. If it doesn't work, the result is The Hulk...
Studios will try anything new--like putting an indie-minded director on a big project--as long as it has been done before. Sony Pictures hit it big pairing Spider-Man with Sam Raimi and then hit the fan when it mated The Hulk with Ang Lee. Now Christopher Nolan, best known for his twisty art thriller Memento, gets a shot with Batman Begins. He says all he borrowed from the franchise was Batman himself, and even this Batman will be a mystery to fans. "I saw a small gap in pop-culture movie history," Nolan says, "the film where...
...their customers and partners in sex play for the evening, are in faded t-shirts and jeans, their stomachs round from years of beer. The women are polished perfect, with just a few spider veins and tired, red eyes betraying their mortality...
Townspeople near the hazardous-waste site in Casmalia, Calif., allege that they are suffering from runny noses, bronchitis, sore throats, headaches and eye irritation. Santa Barbara county officials have been at work clarifying the problem. They found the area was experiencing a spider migration described by the agricultural commissioner as "common." If cobwebs can result in community hysteria and "burning skin and eyes," certainly the odors common to any waste facility have little chance of being understood. Jan Lachenmaier Director of Public Relations Casmalia Resources Santa Barbara, Calif. Soviet Charmer...