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...ASTONISHING X-MEN Written by Joss Whedon; Illustrated by John Cassaday The smash series of '04 continues with the "Dangerous" story...
...ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING," BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (UPN) You could apply the title of this audacious musical episode to the whole season of Buffy, which survived an acrimonious move from the WB to return smarter, funnier and dramatically richer than ever. Who'd have thought creator Joss Whedon (who taught himself piano to write the episode's surprisingly tuneful score, as well as the nimble lyrics) studied his Sondheim along with his sarcophagi...
...Buffy" creator Joss Whedon came out to thank his new masters, saying it was "not in my nature" to be brief - and then proved himself right. It was charming, his precious locutions - "I'd like to say two words, 'thank' and 'you'" - making him seem like a kind of husky male Willow. At least for the first, oh, five hours or so (My notes end, "Joss Whedon will not shut up."). As Whedon rambled on - UPN must not have known what was coming, as the teleprompter apparently said only "Joss speaks" - the audience eventually played him off, applauding at every...
...operating at a loss for the expensive production, with the hope of making it up in syndication and richer later-season deals). Talks were at an impasse and bad feelings running high when UPN jumped in with a reported offer of about $2.3 million per episode, which creator Joss Whedon and Fox leapt at like a vampire at a Red Cross bloodmobile wreck...
...cable network (and yes, I'm counting "The West Wing"): a hilarious allegorical story of independence, relationships and mortality, told through scary stories (just as "The Twilight Zone" did), that has gotten ever more touching and audacious in its fifth season. See this year's outlandish subplot, in which Whedon introduced Buffy's younger sister Dawn - we'd never seen her before but the cast acted like she'd been there all along -who turned out to be an ancient mystical "key" disguised by a spell that made her friends and family believe they'd known her for years. What...