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...such a complicated knot of racial politics and hagiographic pride been expressed with such economy. Director Spike Lee's baseball hat emblazoned with a silver X -- created to promote his forthcoming film on Malcolm X -- is grass-roots iconography of a high order. Two years ago, the ubiquitous- superhero-logo-of-choice was that of a white playboy-vigilante who dresses like a bat; now it is a real-life black pimp turned philosopher...
...Elizabeth Perkins finds the strength to give William Hurt a reason to live (though both films do get terminally sappy). It is just that Hollywood's addiction to fantasy has kept moviegoers away from matters of real life and real death, and that the industry's canonization of the superhero has persuaded viewers that less is at stake when a woman simply, courageously comforts someone else...
...often looked for inspiration to the world of comic books, usually superhero juvenilia like The Flash or The Incredible Hulk. But TALES FROM THE CRYPT is a different kettle of rotting fish. Based on the seedy old E.C. horror comics, each half-hour episode is a ghoulish black comedy that aims less for thrills or scares than for gleefully evoked squirms. The show, garnering high ratings in its third season on HBO, demonstrates another quality rare in TV: it is improving with age. Introduced by a cackling, skeletal "crypt keeper," the stories barrel along with logic-bending abandon; even when...
Spider-Man is a high-climbing superhero, but how will he perform on Wall Street? Later this month, fans of Spidey will have a chance to find out. Marvel Entertainment Group, publisher of Spider-Man, Captain America, Silver Surfer and more than 70 other titles, plans to make its first stock offering. Marvel will offer 3.5 million shares, a stake of about 30%. The shares are expected to sell at $14 to $16. Started in 1939, Marvel is the largest comic- book publisher in North America (total monthly circulation: 8.5 million). Last year the company posted net profits...
...story of the turtles' birth certainly strays from the superhero script. They started out as aquarium pets, but mutated after falling into a pool of radioactive glop in a New York sewer. They were raised by a rat, Splinter, who taught them Ninja skills to fight crime...