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...What do you think it is about gadgets, these "shiny new" toys, that have captured people's attention? There's a Batman utility belt or "Data" from Goonies concept to it. You can reach out to people and you can do things - not like being a superhero, but it can make you move through your day in a more powerful way. You've got an easier way to organize things and a lot of information at your fingertips. For people who feel naked without having gadgets around, like their cellphone, it becomes a fetish. So, when you upgrade your piece...
...better than she was at the beginning. But she's never going to be the superhero. She's never going to be the tough bounty hunter with all kinds of skills. That's just not what she's about. I've heard her described as ditzy, but she's absolutely not ditzy. She's not entirely prepared for the job she does, but she's smart, she's resilient, she's tenacious. She does the best that she can with what she has to work with. She has other ways of making her captures. Where a man might want...
...danced across the field, to the cheers of Ecuadorian fans. He did so in the memory of teammate Otilino (Spider-Man) Tenorio, killed in a 2005 car crash. But Marvel Entertainment executives took Kaviedes' tribute as their own. For a comic-book publisher, it marked a feat of superhero proportions: in less than a decade, the company had pulled itself out of bankruptcy to re-establish its global brand. "We've made Spider-Man beloved in even the farthest corners of rural Ecuador," says David Maisal, a vice chairman of Marvel Studios...
...released in May 2008. Marvel's new studio can spend up to $165 million a flick--still relatively low for the production of an action film with sophisticated special effects, warns media analyst Harold Vogel. "And they've got to create excellent stories to stick out in the oversaturated superhero genre," Vogel says. If the studio goes over budget on a film, Marvel could be forced to use some of its own cash or seek out a partner...
Pity poor Uma Thurman. In My Super Ex-Girlfriend, her new movie, she plays a superhero who falls for Luke Wilson, a not very successful architect. He does not reciprocate, a less than shrewd response to a woman who, with one glance, can set you alight--and I don't mean with desire. In her last romantic comedy, Prime, she played a high-powered fashion consultant who's dating a man who worked as a kitchen hand and moved into her apartment and played a lot of video games. Those are the men Uma Thurman gets. Or doesn...