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...affairs where studios, wary of risking big money by backing an unproven property, instead greenlight sequel after sequel to their few profitable action franchises. Last year’s summer slate was the worst example yet of this trend, featuring sequels to The Matrix, Charlie’s Angels, X-Men, Terminator, Bad Boys, The Fast and the Furious and Tomb Raider—a bunch of exercises in money-burning, most of them roundly reviled by critics and many lapsing from the public consciousness even before they came out on DVD (the only impact that the second Charlie?...
...HOLLYWOOD HIT] X-MEN Now he's exposing Hugh Jackman's fingernails in the cartoon-superhero movies...
Comic-book collectors are known for their obsession with obtaining pristine originals of favorite titles. Now, if they can't get those, they can at least own perfect digital copies on CD-ROM of 100 separate issues from the Spider-Man, X-Men, Incredible Hulk, Avengers, Captain America and other titles in Topics Entertainment's Marvel Comic Book Library ($30). We loved the content but found the presentation a bit flat: each book is displayed in your Web browser, and you must click on a thumbnail version of a page to see it up close. An interface free of toolbar...
...strategy for selling them on the floor has become critical. Should Superman, manga and "Maus," sit side by side? Chip Kidd, among many others, can't stand this. "I truly believe that Spiegelman's 'Maus' should be shelved next to Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi, not next to the X-Men. Maus is a Holocaust memoir first and a comicbook second." Micha Hershman, the graphic novel buyer for the Borders bookstore chain has no such doubts. "The graphic novel is a format," he says. "We would not segment the category by splitting up the graphic novel section." According to Hershman...
...Francis made three free throws to push its lead to five with just 26 seconds remaining. Crimson junior guard Kevin Rogus drained a huge three-pointer to close the gap to two, but two more free-throws by X-Men guard Zach Russell with seven seconds remaining put the game out of reach...