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...Manitoba, has more than two dozen films to his credit, including the critically acclaimed Smoke Signals and the John Woo-directed Windtalkers, where he starred opposite Nicolas Cage. He chatted with TIME's Carolina A. Miranda about war, the state of Native actors in Hollywood and the comic book superhero he would one day like to portray...
...even the chemical makeup of the products with which they cook. Then, he showed off a few new tricks of his own. Using a "spherification" process of wrapping it in an algae-based membrane, he turned olive oil into tiny, transparent pearls mimicking caviar. Afterwards, though, he displayed a superhero's circumspection about his work: "We're caught in a madness for the new," he said, "and it's my fault...
DIED. Martin Nodell, 91, creator of crime-fighting superhero Green Lantern and one of the last surviving artists from comics' golden age; in Muskego, Wis. Nodell got the idea for Green Lantern on a New York City subway when he noticed an engineer holding out a lantern. "It was green, which meant things were safe," he said. Infusing elements of Greek myth and Wagner's Ring operas, he created a flying good guy who draws his powers from a magic ring made from the remains of an ancient green lamp...
...radio personality, they’re necessary for the Southern Avenger; they move him beyond radio and into the realm of mascot. In hiding his identity, the mask creates a new one. The spandex not only makes the Southern Avenger look like Spider-Man: it gives him some superhero invincibility...
...Since launching its colossally successful Spider-Man franchise in 2002, the movie studio has racked up at least $1 billion in North American box office revenues annually, even in years when the web-spinning superhero was on a hiatus. That streak was in jeopardy last year after a string of pricey flops (Remember Lords of Dogtown, Stealth and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo?). Although Sony wound up hitting the $1 billion mark, it sank to third in the year-end rankings, putting it out of the top two places for the first time in the Spider-Man era. "Last year...