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Emmy Host Death Match: Let's Go to the Videotape
· Now you have no choice but to check in for our Emmy liveblog on Sunday: We'll be first with the results of the Ryan Seacrest/Jeff Probst bareknuckle rematch. [Jimmy Kimmel Live] More » -
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High On 'Dark Knight,' Warners Contemplates Next Steps For McBoringface Superman
With The Dark Knight now the second-highest domestically grossing film of all time, some of Batman's friends and co-workers are having trouble convincingly faking their delight over his success. First and foremost among that group would be Superman, with one source claiming the Kryptonian native had gotten "catty" with the cowled vigilante recently, demanding to know if he'd "remembered to celebrate Mother's Day this year," before adding, "Come on, Flash. Let's go play Wii Fit," and storming out of the Justice League cafeteria. It's no secret what the source of that animosity is— Bryan Singer's uninspiring take on the Superman mythos fizzled at the box office, failing to capture the public's imagination—and according to Variety, the very fate of the failed franchise reboot now hangs in the balance: More » -
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Superman To Become Less Terrible (Maybe)
Picture it: you get a fancy-schmancy director to make a film about one of America's most beloved characters; it has a huge budget, impressive effects, big name talent, and... it totally sucks. Ang Lee's The Hulk immediately comes to mind, as does Bryan Singer's Superman. They were both critical and commercial failures, plus they were boring as all hell. But this summer, the Hulk franchise got a less sucky, more successful reboot. And that got Hollywood's wheels a'spinnin'. Could the same thing be done for The Man of Steel? It's complicated. Watch as we untangle the twisted tale after the jump. More » -
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Ben Silverman To Whisk You Away From Society's Ills
· NBC is close to unveiling their very fantasy- and action-heavy 2008-09 lineup, including a pickup of Knight Rider, and Robinson Crusoe, an "'adrenaline-charged' update of the classic tale." Said Ben Silverman, "We just wanted to give audiences a viable alternative to all the really, really gay stuff Steve McPherson seems to love so much over at ABC." [Variety] More » -
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If You Have The Means, Michael Keaton's Sweaty 'Batman' Codpiece Can Be Yours
Got an extra six grand lying around with nothing to consume? Well, the folks at Guernsey's Auction House will be happy to solve your fiscal problem. What could possibly be more fulfilling than spending those benjamins on a previously worn wife-beater with holes in it, coupled with silk purple and maroon pants? Not buying it? Well, what if we told you said ensemble was worn by Jim Carrey in the legendary bird-calling scene from Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. And if you roll higher than that, say with 100 grand taking up space in your wife's shoe closet, get your ass to Vegas on March 15th because Michael Keaton's likely-sweat-drenched Batman Returns costume awaits. What else will the Pugliese Pop Culture Collection feature? More offerings, prices and images follow after the jump. More »
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Comment by TomCruiseDiedforYourSins: I'm waiting on Clooney's Batman nipples. I need some time alone. more » | Other threads
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Details Of Brandon Routh's Ultra-Secret Superwedding Revealed!
It's been a long while since the name Brandon Routh—the dashing young man plucked from obscurity to fill Superman's tights in the all-Kryptonian hero's long-awaited and quickly forgotten return to the big screen—has come up. So it was with a measure of genuine delight that we received an e-mail blast entitled, "ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT IS EXCLUSIVELY INSIDE THE SECRET WEDDING OF 'SUPERMAN' BRANDON ROUTH," a subject line that effectively teased the many details of the one-movie-long resuméd actor's mystery-enshrouded nuptials therein: More »
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By SethComment by Hit Bull Win Steak: moments after the wedding, disappointed fans demanded that Tom Welling be the one to marry Courtney Ford in a reboot... more » | Other threads
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Suck-Up Ads Letting Jon Peters Know Who His Real Hollywood Friends Are
If the number of full-page Variety and Hollywood Reporter suck-up ads purchased in one's honor on the day he receives Walk of Fame immortality is a reliable metric of an individual's popularity in the industry, then we could quickly conclude from a quick survey of recent star-on-a-dirty-sidewalk honorees that everyone in Hollywood is trying to get into Halle Berry's pants (in fairness, she did pretty much invite the whole town to get all up inside her), while no one but Warner Bros. would much mind if erstwhile hairstylist and Superman Returns producer Jon Peters decided to give up the moviemaking business and open a salon in Beverly Hills. Today's Page Six reports: More »
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By MarkComment by NotReadyForPrimeTime: @peterfrnd: I think he was definitely emotionally scarred by Streisand, but it wasn't her eyelashes. more » | Other threads
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Hollywood Memorabilia Collectors Willing To Pay Top Dollar For An Elusive Winkie
Above are some of the highlights from a massive Hollywood memorabilia auction that brought in over $2 million yesterday, including $115,000 for a rare Wizard of Oz "Winkie" witch's guard costume, and the same for a Superman costume worn by Christopher Reeve in Superman: The Movie. (The entire catalog is available here.) Val Kilmer's Batman Forever batsuit brought in $63,250, a respectable sum considering it had not yet been retrofitted with accoutrements like the latex batnipples and a titanium-reinforced codpiece that would characterize the schizophrenic hero's "Kinky Clooney" era. And while we don't have the final figures on Wolverine's adamantium claws, we'll assume that any iconic prop that once belonged to Hugh Jackman would have brought in a bid of at least five figures, just as the dance-thong from his legendary run as a high-kicking Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz did at a Broadway Cares charity auction event in December 2004. More »
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By SethComment by PeterGreenawayCulinaryInstitute: I'm saving my money to buy the belt from "Pootie Tang." more » | Other threads
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Trade Round-Up: Bryan Singer Returns To Superman Franchise, Asked To 'Butch Him Up A Little This Time, OK?'
There's still no script for the Superman Returns sequel planned for summer of 2009, but Warner Bros. has decided to give director Bryan Singer another crack at trying to break the $300 million budget mark he fell a little short of in his first attempt. [Variety] More »
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By MarkComment by Hit Bull Win Steak: why are they giving Singer yet another chance to rape the corpse of Superman? more » | Other threads
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Some Guy Who Played Superman Engaged To Girl You've Never Heard Of
For every breaking People story reporting the sad news of the best boy who got away comes a joyous new celebrity wedding exclusive to take its place. We'll leave it to you, however, to decide how revved up you should get about the recently unknown star of a disappointing summer blockbuster asking his mostly anonymous girlfriend to marry him:
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By SethComment by raincoaster: Yeah, come on. Don't be so proud. We'd all eat anything Jack Sparrow asked us to. more » | Other threads
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When Others Dreamed Of Girls, Brandon Routh Only Dreamed Of Blue Tights
Audiences of Superman Returns marveled at its unknown star, Brandon Routh, and the ease and confidence with which he delivered a substandard Christopher Reeve impression in his first big screen foray. A memory shared by his mother reveals how the actor's early, girl-shunning discipline and good-times abstention helped guide him to greatness: More »
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By SethComment by The Gen X Eurotrash Jetsetter Club: That's funny, I think Kenny Chesney's mother said the same thing. I guess some people become 'workaholics' younger than others. more » | Other threads
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Pasty Superman Demands To Be Made Prettier Than Lois Lane
Having already destroyed homegrown hero James Bond with intimations that the new actor portraying him might not be man enough to fill the iconic tuxedo, the bloodthirsty British tabloids have turned their attention to humiliating the guy currently donning the cape of America's most recognizable imaginary champion. Brandon Routh and the Superman Returns team alighted in London this week for the movie's UK premiere, finally getting in range of the manhood-savaging ambush the press had been planning for the Man of Steel. Let the probably fictional, emasculating fun begin, courtesy of the Daily Mail: More » -
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Superman: The Infomercial
We'd never begrudge our newest, highest-profile cinematic superhero any endorsement opportunities that might arise from his gig as the Man of Steel, but there's something unintentionally hilarious about Brandon Routh's infomercial for Rope Yoga. We trust Routh's claims that this form of exercise was invaluable to his preparation for the physical rigors he would face on the Superman Returns set, but each time we see him demonstrating the machines upon which he trained for his strenuous flying harness work, it's hard not to imagine that archnemesis Lex Luthor has entangled him in Kryptonite ropes, bonds from which he's struggling to break free before Lois Lane takes her final step towards oblivion on a nearby booby-trapped StairMaster. More » -
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When Life (And Death) Imitates Superhero Art
Angela Borlaza, Marlon Brando's longtime nurse and companion, is suing his will's co-executors, claiming she was kept outside the room as a signature was coerced from his deathbed—perhaps even forged. That document gave full control of his estate to producer Mike Medavoy, who has plans to develop Brando's Tahitian island into a profitable resort. To help make sense of the complex legal wranglings, we thought we'd illustrate using the obvious parallels to a certain blockbuster currently in theaters and starring a digitally disinterred Brando, Superman Returns: Borlaza's story paints Brando as the frail, wealthy window Gertrude Vanderworth, while the alliteratively named Mike Medavoy comes off like a conniving Lex Luthor, guiding the actor's limp, pen-clutching hand across the signature line, only to rush off moments later to enact his maniacal offshore real estate development schemes. More » -
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Trade Round-Up: 'Superman' Solidly Unspectacular
· Superman Returns pulls in just™ $106 million over its seven-day opening weekend, as well as a Fantastic Four/Hulk-trailing, somewhat disappointing™ $52 million over the traditional three-day frame. [Variety] More »
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By MarkComment by The Gen X Eurotrash Jetsetter Club: Too bad Christine is officially too old for another Brady Bunch movie and has to get her husband to find... more » | Other threads
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Jon Peters Returns
You were to be forgiven if, during Superman Returns' opening credits, you had assumed you had stepped into some kind of wormhole to the 1970s: The whooshing blue letters, John Williams' familiar score, and, most of all, the name Jon Peters listed as producer, were enough to instantly throw you back to a simpler time, when the men were ex-hairdressing superproducers, and the Barbra Streisands were afro'd. The LAT takes a look at one-time King of Hollywood Peters, a larger-than-life and reviled figure who, thanks to his 13-year attachment to the Superman project, finds himself in the unlikely position of having another shot at the game. While he refused to be interviewed for the piece, his ex-wife, Mindy Peters (who's now romantically back in the picture), was more than willing to share some insights into what she feels makes this loathsome, lovable man tick: More » -
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Trade Round-Up: Meryl Streep Helps Save The Summer
A news-light trade round-up for the holiday weekend: More » -
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Monday Morning Box Office: 'Superman' Saves Warner Bros. From Nosediving Into Ground
When life—and doesn't it just seem to always?—gives you lemons, do what we do: roll up your sleeves, paint on a smile, and make "this having to work on Monday thing is really putting a damper on my long weekend plans"-ade! To help you sweeten that sour nectar, some high fructose box office numbers:
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Hollywood PrivacyWatch Special Edition: Darren Star Eats Guys Like Matthew Perry For Breakfast
Because Hollywood is much too small a town for a particularly anticipated movie screening to play host to just one VIP-monkey's whims, we received two more accounts regarding the infamous Matthew Perry Roped-Off Superman Seating Incident, both implicating yet another sorta-famous showbiz name suffering from a bloated sense of entitlement. None other than Sex and the City creator Darren Star was on hand, and, try as he did, he seemed incapable of convincing the AMC staff that his behind-the-scenes tinkering somehow trumped Perry's magnetic, on-camera persona. The first account begins immediately below, but make sure to read both, or you'll miss the money-shot quote involving Star's cannibalistic brunching taste for former Friends stars. More » -
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Dean Cain Clings To The Crimson Cape
As we find ourselves nearing the humpday of Superman Returns' paradigm-shifting, seven-day opening weekend, we thought it only fitting to continue to pour on the Superman coverage ad nauseum until your faces runs green as Kryptonite and you start fantasizing about taking a five-year break from the planet yourselves. Having already covered the topic of Superman's hair through the years, we move onto the less vital but no less fascinating topic of what Dean "Oh, yeah! He played Superman, too!" Cain thinks of his updated, big budget counterpart. More »
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By SethComment by pseudopsych: But his turn at playing Scott Peterson was positively spellbinding! more » | Other threads
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Who Does A Guy Have To Sleep With To Get His Name Spelled Correctly In This Town?
Sorry, Bryan. Variety will only spell-check your name if your movie breaks $25 million on its opening day. More »
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By MarkComment by Jacques Bauer: An understandable mistake--from what I hear, Singer and the "Y" are not exactly on a first-name basis Christ, that sounds vaguely... more » | Other threads
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Hollywood PrivacyWatch Special Edition: Matthew Perry Expects VIP Movie Theater Treatment
Following a long, steady build-up, the wide release of Superman Returns yesterday came as welcome relief to fanboys (and girls) suffering from serious cases of Superblueballs. Most of them got in the old-fashioned, opening night way: buy tickets in advance, show up early, take place in line, make girlfriend buy popcorn. But as a Defamer reader who caught a Century City screening last night can attest, the famous can always find a way to skirt inconvenience: More » -
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Gay Superman Returns
With Superman Returns reaching wide release today, it won't be long before the public finally learns that the Gay Superman Question was just a ruse perpetuated by the cryptohomosexual-agenda-obsessed media, and discovers for themselves that this latest incarnation of the hero is, in fact, a pretty obvious Jesus stand-in. But as the final blows are landed to the immobile flank of this particular dead horse, we're happy to share with you the Daily Ramblings IMDb mock-up for the still-unrealized Gay Superman Returns film, complete with nice details like a dream cast of Erick McCormack, Kathy Griffin, and Nathan Lane. Enjoy. -
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Short Ends: Wax Superman Thirty Percent More Charismatic Than Brandon Routh
Nice guy Brandon Routh did his best to hide his disappointment when the folks at Madame Toussaud's decided to recast the role of Wax Superman with Scott Baio, who may also get the nod over Routh for the next feature film. More » -
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Superman's Hair: A Retrospective
On the eve of Superman Returns' premiere, the LAT takes a moment to revisit the icon's various hairstyles over the years. Why, we're not exactly sure, though a comparative timeline highlighting changes in the size and style of the Package of Steel™ would have been inappropriate for a family paper. The piece even goes so far as to consult a "Hollywood stylist" on tips for achieving the looks at home. (Though it egregiously omits perhaps the greatest single coiffured Superman of all time, Indian Superman.) More »
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By SethComment by metroville: I like that Indian Superman is on the phone. more » | Other threads
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Is It Too Soon To Start Wondering If Spider-Man Is Gay?
We're not in the habit of handing out free advertising space to studios, but we kind of like Sony's balls in releasing their Spider-Man 3 teaser on the day Superman Returns begins its marathon seven-day opening weekend. Nicely played, faceless multimedia corporation with a competing superhero-based product! We've already forgotten all about the silly man in the tights and cape. More » -
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Bryan Singer To Sling Futuristic, Vodka-Based Cocktails
We'd long felt that there was something familiarly blank, shiny, and ovoid about Bryan Singer's face, but we'd never been quite able to place the resemblance. Luckily, the Smrtmnky blog connected the dots for us. Svedka vodka's friendly bartender of the future seems to split the difference between the menacing automaton army of I, Robot and the Superman Returns director nicely. Or at least freak us out a little less. More »
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By MarkComment by Bon Jour, Pee Wee: Bryan used to be vaguely cute, but now he does look robot-esque. more » | Other threads
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The De-Gaying Of Superman, Part III: Hey, Kevin, Can You Hold This For A Second?
Given the whole Gay Superman Situation, we can imagine that there was no way that the folks at Warner Bros. were going to let their new, embattled Man of Steel handle any footlongs to promote their internal employee screening menu (huge version with directions to the hot dog cart here) and risk overheated exegesis of the Da Vinci Code-level symbolism buried deep within an image of the superhero holding a problematically phallic snack food. Instead, they wisely handed off the perilous assignment to their unquestionably hetero villain, who, in our opinion, could have at least pretended to be impressed with the link's size. More » -
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Short Ends: Even Superman Has A Past
· We're not exactly sure why we find an old modeling photo of the new Superman reading a back issue of Vanity Fair so funny, but the humor value of Brandon Routh calling upon God to smite those who would shitcan him from a soap opera is self-evident. More » -
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Defamer Party Report: Superflush
A Defamer operative stumbled home late last night and stayed conscious long enough to share this stunning photo and brief report about a little get-together following the Superman Returns premiere: More »
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By MarkComment by Big Daddy Drew: So Brandon Routh likes long, fat chocolate eclairs that are positively bursting with custard? Nothing gay about that. more » | Other threads
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Warner Bros. Orders Graphic Crucifixion Scene Added To 'Superman Returns' Climax
Perhaps we've allowed ourselves to become too blinded by our obsession with the Gay Superman Question (or by the retina-searing, fabulous rainbows emitted from the hero's fingertips) to see this on our own, but maybe the latest incarnation of the Man of Steel is not actually a closeted homosexual sent out into the world to destroy Warner Bros.' box office grosses in the red states, but rather the Son of Man Himself, dispatched by the Creator to save humanity from its sins: More »
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By MarkComment by Sir Winston Thriller: So Superman is uncut and has issues with his parents? more » | Other threads
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The De-Gaying Of Superman II: The French Campaign
We really hadn't expected to get the chance to revisit our continuing coverage of Warner Bros.' Gay Superman Problem this quickly after yesterday's installment, but a generous reader who just returned from a trip to France has supplied us with fresh promotional material for analysis. It appears that the studio is so afraid of any further untoward discussion of the Man of Steel's publicly questioned sexuality that they're willing to exploit the French in an attempt to cement the hero's hetero image. Here, Superman is depicted as so disgusted by Europe's most potent phallic symbol (sorry, Peyronie's-afflicted Leaning Tower of Pisa!) that he's willing to fly straight into the ground to avoid its Gallic charm, perhaps seeking the more vaginal form of a chasm beneath the Earth's crust or the safety of its womblike, if perilously molten, core. Indeed, this seems like a pretty convoluted way of asserting that Superman is into chicks, but ad departments get paid a lot of money to subtly manipulate the public in this fashion. -
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The De-Gaying Of Superman
Perhaps sensing that Superman Returns director Bryan Singer's suspiciously qualified declaration that the Man of Steel "is probably the most heterosexual character in any movie I've ever made" will be seen as nothing more than evidence that the tension between Cyclops and Wolverine is rooted in an awkward, identity-scrambling sexual experience at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters that both confused mutants would like to forget, Warner Bros. is taking further steps aimed at the public de-gaying of their $260 million box office hero. The results of their latest attempt to dispel the chatter are mixed at best, however. While we we're told that this cardboard standee spotted by an operative at the CineVegas film festival this weekend is meant to depict a hard-partying Superman using his freeze-breath to chill some very hetero brewskis for his frat brothers, removing the cases of beer gives the sense that the balletically lunging hero is selflessly trying to use the icy blast to cool off the overheated, possibly man-seeking loins that have made his studio so nervous. More »
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By MarkComment by Alfonso X. Alfonse: Wouldn't superman's blowjobs crush the members of regular, earth-folk? more » | Other threads
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Short Ends: Superman Is Not. Gay. Got That?
· Everyone who has hundreds of millions of dollars and entire careers riding on the fact that Superman is not gay would like you to know that Superman is not gay. (PS Happy Pride, Supey!) More » -
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Batman Vs. Superman Catfight Narrowly Avoided At MTV Movie Awards
Last night's MTV Movie Awards, which were shot Saturday on the Sony lot, were a series of hits (the streamlined set and projections, Jessica Alba as host) and misses (Andy Samberg's painfully unfunny Ron Google opening sketch, anything involving AFI), though not even Jim Carrey surrounded by 1000 angels in sunglasses could have outshone Christian Bale's acceptance speech for Best Hero. As the cast of Superman Returns stood behind him (video above), the swaggering, macho Bale proudly returned some bat-balls to his superhero's legacy. He failed, however, to resist the impulse to deliver yet another blow to Superman's ever faltering potency problem (it's around the 3:30 mark): More » -
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Short Ends: Superman: The Fruit Punch
· Yeah, we know what you're thinking, but fruit punch was the official drink of Krypton before it exploded, so just let it go, OK? More »
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By MarkComment by TheStarterWife: Last night I saw Kryptonite Doritos... because you know... Superman will avoid those to stay lean. more » | Other threads
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Superbulge V: Diddle Me Superman
With all of the speculation about whether the latest big-screen incarnation of Superman prefers the company of Lex Luthor to Lois Lane, we've lost sight of a crucial issue that once gripped all of Superfandom, namely, the controversy over the painstaking construction and calibration of Brandon Routh's possibly oversized Package of Steel™. Back in September, the costume designer on Superman Returns promised Newsweek that the famous codpiece would be kid-safe. If this officially licensed action figure is any indication (photographed at Wal-Mart by a reader who has earned our undying devotion), the folks at Warner Bros. must have felt confident that they achieved that goal so completely that children age five and up are invited to poke the hero in the superjunk without fear of injury, either to their delicate fingers, the toy's molded plastic genitalia, or to their own normal psychological development. More »
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By MarkComment by RobotsonCasiotones: Please tell me this is photoshopped. Far more traumatizing than the codpiece is Superman's eerie resemblance to Tom Cruise. *shudder* more » | Other threads
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Wolverine Named Most Powerful Make-Believe Person In Hollywood
Having exhausted nearly every permutation of that perennial entertainment publication chesnut, the Hollywood Power List, Entertainment Weekly has now turned to the realm of fictional players, rendering pop culture's most recognizable make-believe characters hopelessly insecure by assigning them meaningless, numbered potency rankings. And while Wolverine and his people can sleep tight knowing his mutant talents are very much appreciated, the Spongebob Squarepants and Deuce Bigalows of this world could find themselves frantically flipping pages, wondering how and when they let it all slip through their non-existent fingers: More »
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By SethComment by SecureLocation: How great, considering the guy who plays Wolverine is make-believe, too! more » | Other threads
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