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'SNL' MOCKS 'SPIDER-MAN's' JULIE TAYMOR: Video Clip of the Day
"Saturday Night Live" has officially turned "Spider-Man" director Julie Taymor's ouster from the director's chair into a firing. Kristen Wiig did her cutting impression of the Tony-winning director/designer last night, just days after "Turn Off the Dark" producers announced...
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Michael Cavna
| March 13, 2011; 12:00 PM ET |
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'SPIDER-MAN' TURNS OFF THE LIGHTS: Show to shutter in April; open June 15
As expected by some entertainment observers, Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" will shut down for more than two weeks as the troubled production's new creative team rushes in like emergency mechanics, ready to install their overhaul. The lead...
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Michael Cavna
| March 11, 2011; 7:15 PM ET |
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'SPIDER-MAN' SPINS NEW COURSE: New creative team, summer opening announced [UPDATED]
Note: This article originally published at 8:40 a.m. Wednesday. For weeks, rumors have swirled that Julie Taymor was hanging on by a thread. Now, the producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" -- aka Broadway's most expensive musical ever...
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Michael Cavna
| March 9, 2011; 8:09 PM ET |
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WOMEN'S DAY GOOGLE 'DOODLE': Today's logo invites you to world's bridges to mark 100th year
Today, Google does more than spotlight the 100th year of International Women's Day with its home-page "doodle," in which brightly hued profiles mark the social, political and economic advances of women the world over. By clicking on the company's...
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Michael Cavna
| March 8, 2011; 2:00 AM ET |
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Amid revolution, Arab cartoonists draw attention to their cause
Note: A somewhat truncated version of this article appears in the print edition of today's Washington Post. Comic-book translator DALIA ZIADA (image courtesy of Dalia Ziada) It was August of 2006 when Dalia Ziada, a young Egyptian writer, discovered her...
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Michael Cavna
| March 7, 2011; 10:30 AM ET |
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WILL EISNER'S GOOGLE LOGO: Doodle marks 'The Spirit' creator's 94th birthday
For comics fans, today's image may well be Google's greatest "Doodle" yet. The latest Google logo celebrates what would have been the 94th birthday of one of the cartooning world's towering legends, Will Eisner. The home-page "doodle" -- as...
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Michael Cavna
| March 6, 2011; 7:00 AM ET |
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