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...first belly laugh of the new season. CBS had the two biggest new dramas last year with CSI: Miami and Without a Trace; so it announced three more crime dramas, plus two other dramas with cops as major characters. The WB, which hit big with a young, hot Superman on Smallville, offers a young, hot King of the Apes in Tarzan and Jane (on which Jane, of course, is a cop). There are yet more star-vehicle sitcoms, for the likes of Whoopi Goldberg, Charlie Sheen and Kelly Ripa. And NBC, under pressure to replace Friends after its final season...
Comic books were just a few years old when the red-caped figure, lifting a 2-ton car as if it were lawn furniture, graced the cover of Action Comics No. 1. Superman was the creation of Cleveland teenagers Jerry Siegel (writer) and Joe Shuster (illustrator). They envisioned him in 1932 and for six fruitless years tried to get him into print. In early 1938, comics publisher Max Gaines (whose son Bill would publish Tales from the Crypt and Mad in the '50s) recommended the lads to DC Comics. Finally someone said yes. From that first issue, the character...
...Kill me a son.’” The plot follows accordingly, setting peace-loving L.T. Hallam (a mountain man reminiscent of Jack London, played by Tommy Lee Jones) on the trail of Aaron Hallam (Benicio del Toro), when the latter—a Special Forces superman scarred by his service in Kosovo—goes on a killing rampage in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon. Violently stabbing and dissecting his victims, Hallam is motivated by “war stress” tinged with a strange sort of militant vegetarianism (“Do you know that...
Brett Ratner, slated to direct the next Superman movie, is trying to coax Jude Law into taking the role. The sticking point? Law isn't sure he wants to sign on for three movies...
...Wolverine the X-Man and Yugi of Yu-Gi-Oh! got into a fight, who would win? The conundrum isn't as tricky as the Superman-vs.-Batman debate that has divided comic-book readers for generations. Wolverine, an American superhero from the venerable Marvel stable, is a hulking genetic mutant with claws like knives. Yugi, a manga character from Japan, is a stunted schoolboy with a penchant for games and puzzles, low self-esteem and eyes the size of moon pies. When classmates pick on Yugi, girls jump to his defense...