Month: April 2003

A good episode, albeit playing a bit to the convenience factor…

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Family took a couple days off and we went into the city to stay over, see friends, and take in some shows. I took Ariel to see “42nd Street” at a Wednesday matinee. “What’s this show about?” she asked. “It’s about putting on a show,” I told her, and there’s really not much more to it than that. Lots of tap dancing, plus several songs that she knew. A fun time. That evening, while I tended to Caroline, Kathleen took Ariel out to a very different type of musical: “Hairspray.” Ariel said she liked it better than “42nd Street.”

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I’m doing a column on what was the best superhero movie ever made (not counting the serials from the 40s and 50s.)

Any thoughts?

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I’d been complaining a while back that Marvel wasn’t doing anything to advertise the fact that Spider-Man guest-starred in “Captain Marvel #10.” I felt it was a missed opportunity to prompt Spidey fans to sample my title. Well, CM editor Andy Schmidt felt my pain, and commissioned a new cover for #10 conspicuously featuring the wall-crawler, and pencilled by–get this–Alan Davis. Also, the cover for #15 is scheduled to be drawn by comics legend Neal Adams. As soon as I have visuals on either or both of these covers, I’ll post them here.

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Been up to Boston the past few days where eldest daughter Shana did her senior recital, part of the graduation requirements for Berklee College of Music where she attends. Audience included family, friends, and even her boss from Comicopia where she works on Tuesdays. She sang mostly original tunes; she’s developed into quite a sharp song writer. The triumphant set was followed by a pizza party at her apartment.

We then stopped off in Connecticut on the way back to visit with my sister, Beth, her husband Rande, and their kids Sara and newborn Emma, whom we were meeting for the first time. She bore a striking resemblance to Caroline. We hung out, chatted, and were tormented with curious television choices, such as Rande and Kathleen watching a DVD of the Rankin-Bass “Here Comes Peter Cottontail” while Beth and I begged for it to stop. We also watched some rodeo on TV with cowboys riding on bulls. Whereupon I was informed that the reason the bulls buck so much is that there’s a tight rope yanking on their privates that they’re trying to throw off. Is that true? If it is, am I the only person in the world who didn’t know this?

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This is what happens when you air a series one episode after the other and let it build a head of steam. As opposed to UPN’s treatment of BTVS in which any dramatic headway bangs into reruns, reruns and more reruns. “Countdown to Buffy’s final episode! Rerun! New episode! Another rerun!” Geeez…

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Somewhere, Joss Whedon is giggling insanely right about now.

NEW YORK (AP) — Spike is no longer just the name of a famous film

> director or a volleyball move. Now it’s the name of a cable network, too.

> Struggling TNN — which just two years ago changed from The Nashville

> Network to The National Network — announced Tuesday that, effective June

> 16, it will call itself Spike TV.