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...knows and revealing more of his disease than he knows himself. If Apt Pupil is never so cagey as its characters, it's smart about displaying the evils of which ordinary men are capable. It surely hasn't slowed Singer's rise to big-budget status; his next film, X-Men, will cost at least $80 million...
...boite in the main Benetton outlet on Fifth Avenue. The store, full of books about fashion, food and style, is meant to be the last word in trendiness. Its name? The e Cafe. For a decade, the alphabet's most culturally significant letter has been X. First there was Malcolm X, then the X-Men, The X-Files, the X Games, the fX network, and Gen X. But X, alas, is ex, its reign exhausted. The era of E (or e) has begun. The e Cafe joins the top-rated television series ER, the popular magazine Entertainment Weekly (widely called...
DIED. PROFESSOR CHARLES XAVIER, 32, founder of the "X-men," a group of paranormally gifted, socially conscious mutants; of an accidental zapping by his son Legion during a shoot-out with archenemy Magneto; in Haifa, Israel. Adding to the tragedy is the fact that due to Legion's ability to travel through time, he killed his father 20 years in the past, thus creating an alternate reality in which the X-men don't exist...
MARRIED. Scott ("Cyclops") Summers, 30, whose eyes shoot powerful "optic beams"; and Jean Grey, 30, possessor of telepathic and telekinetic powers; both founding members of the X-Men, a private group of gifted mutants who battle social injustice; at the X-mansion in Salem Center, in New York's Westchester County. Grey wore a dress created by designer Nicole Miller. Although the ceremony and reception were held outdoors, the January weather , was not a problem, as maid of honor and fellow X-Man Storm used her superpowers to create a springlike day. The marriage is the first for both...
...most radical alteration of Superman is also the newest, the work of Writer-Artist Byrne, 37, who redesigned him for DC Comics in 1986. Circulation had slumped below 100,000 copies a month (compared, for example, with nearly 500,000 for Uncanny X-Men), and DC Comics President Jenette Kahn decided that "there was a coat of rust on the man of steel." She also knew that the audience for comics was changing. The corner candy store where kids used to buy comics has largely disappeared, and the kids have grown older. Today's buyers average about...