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Aha! I thought he looked familiar (even though I haven't seen any of the Evil Dead films.)

And what about the supercilious usher that keeps Peter Parker out of the theater? Wasn't he in some B-movies? I saw it Thursday and and had a great time. On the down side it had a few slow spots that could have been tightened up a bit, but they were a long way from being a dealbreaker for me. It was more of an extension of the first movie than a sequel, which was great. Better FX didn't hurt either. And a better villain! The naysayers seem to be complaining that a movie version of a comic book is using comic book logic, comic book situations, even comic book characters and science. I'm shocked, SHOCKED...! Hey, this isn't serious drama. Does it succeed as a cinematic translation of a comic? Yes. Does it remain true to the original Spiderman material? For the most part, yes, given some necessary updating and inevitable fiddling. Is it fun to watch? I think so, if taken on its own terms. Hmmm, $180 million on the first weekend. How are those producers going to eat???

I'm one of the few people who doesn't like Miller's Dark Knight shit. But I agree on Watchmen; in fact, I'll take all the issues up to and including the jailbreak one. The ending is lame but the rest is pretty amazing. Most of Moore's endings are lame though.

I always thought it was an "OR" sound, Kenny DORE-UM, but I'm wrong on pronunciation 50% of the time.

Yes to that! B)

I wonder if any of this appears in the soundtrack to that new Cole Porter bio movie, De Lovely? Probably not.

Quite a bit, actually. Yes, the original Ditko issues have a certain innocence about them, but at bottom existed a hardened cynicism about viewing life from the outside. It's been pointed out that comicdom's obsession with dual identities stems from the fact that a great many of the creators were Jewish. Certainly very few heros conformed to the "blonde, blue-eyed, all-American" ideal. Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man were all dark haired outsiders who were feared and despised for what they were, rather than what they did (which was always good). It wouldn't be a stretch to say that Lex Luthor or J. Jonah Jamison represented a typical anti-semite in their unreasoning hatred of Superman or Spider-Man. In that sense, the alter-ego (Clark Kent, Peter Parker) represents the Jewish American experience of assimilation. How many of these writers and artists overheard anti-semitic remarks by people who didn't know that they were in the presence of Jews? After all, Stanley Leiber changed his name to Stan Lee. It's not difficult to imagine that Peter listening to one of Jonah's anti-Spider-Man diatribes (unaware that he was in the presence of Spider-Man himself) refers to this experience. Interesting take. I think Spiderman 1 did a pretty good job of translating that into a movie without slowing things down too much. That is, what's implicit in the comic is, for the most part, implicit in the movie as well. Which is kind of a miracle for Hollywood, of any era. In fact, I think it's a better "comic book movie" (pracitically a genre to itself) than the first Superman film. Just my opinion.

Yeah, pretty much all of Bird's alternates would apply here. Yes, but a particular favorite of mine is the "Embraceable You" Dial alternate. I actually prefer it to the master. Rollins Contemporary Alternates: YOUWZA!!!!!

Not that making you cry would disturb me, but you do realize that its only jazz CDs being listened to in alphabetical order, right? Ah, that explains the otherwise puzzling absence of Bachman Turner Overdrive.

Wow, a thread that will get me to spend more money on CD's!!! I'm all OVER that thing! Wooooo!!!

How much substance did the original 60's comic book have?

Yes.

I wonder what Maguire would have thought if someone had told him that at the beginning of his acting career. Could this be the Year of the GOOD Sequel? Shrek 2 was just as good (and for my money better) than the first one, people are saying that Prisoner of Azkaban is the best in the Potter series so far, and now every review I've read, including Alexander's, says that Spidey 2 is superior to #1. Did the planets line up, or something? Anyway, I'm one of those people who liked the first Spiderman quite a lot, so I'll be seeing this one for sure. BTW, it made $40.5 million in its first DAY, a WEDNESDAY for godsake!! Woah! I knew it was going to be #1 this weekend, but jeeze...

Ditto. Don't know what it's about, and don't really care.

OH yeah!!

Yeah, what's UP with that? Whoever OKed those blue covers must have been high.

They SUCK!!!! Every single packaging change is just ONE more damn stupid annoyance that makes you just not want to buy the damn things! Of course, I probably will buy some, eventually.

Just think of it as cock-fighting, with humans.

Too bad the title makes it sound like music for dying hospital patients. (But I'll probably pick it up too.)

I like to take anthology tapes, but Rollins, Mobley, Ellington, Sonny Clark, and Dexter are always welcome.

You ARE!!!! (I mean that in a good way.)

"Awesome combination of New Age and Smooth Jazz..." (Mwah Ha Ha Ha---)

Leftover chicken & leeks for me today.

Ah, but the phrase "...will lead you down a smoother path" makes it all worthwhile.

"Boss Guitar" by Wes? Some folks have a really different idea of "jazz" is all I can say.