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...continues to mine two inexhaustible resources: the DC Comics library and the young male appetite for hot superheroines. The Huntress (Batman and Catwoman's daughter), wheelchair-bound Oracle and psychic Dinah fight crime while looking slick and zinging the requisite self-conscious jokes ("Is your spider-sense tingling?" one Bird needles another). But flat performances and stock comic-book story lines keep Birds grounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: BIRDS OF PREY | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

...lighting too low for her to see the adoration sparkling in his soul? Then he must voice it: "I know a palooka like me in unworthy of a groundbreaking extremist like you." As prison scenes go, this one is more noble than "Les Miz," "Parade" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman'" put together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Let Us "Spray" | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

...break from the genre. In general, studios have lost faith in mid-priced films, focusing instead on cheaper movies that turn quick profits (like last summer's Crocodile Hunter flick from MGM, which nearly tripled its $10 million cost at the box office) and mega-budget blockbusters like Spider-Man that can become repeat franchises and play overseas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES: Where Is the Love? | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...aren't alone. Besides the Twilight Zone, this season offers remakes of such cold-war fare as Family Affair, Dragnet and The Time Tunnel. Hairspray has brought a campier take on the early '60s to Broadway. And, as Littlefield notes, "Who was the big winner at the box office? Spider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Look Back In Angst | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

Divers cut away the deteriorated raft and clamped an eight-armed "spider" over the turret. The turret was then placed on a support platform, and the whole assembly was raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clash of Iron | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

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