Are you the parent of a little girl who loves Spider-Man? Are you also a limited asshole with narrow views on gender identity? If you answered yes to both questions then do I ever have the child halloween costume for you!
Is there anything cuter than a grown man in costume cuddling toddlers? I guess the answer is no?
As great as Andrew Garfield was in The Amazing Spider-Man, do you guys remember that major Twitter petition to get Community actor-cum-rapper Childish Gambino Donald Glover in as Peter Parker? Even Stan Lee was down with the idea. Even as the idea of canon superheroes widens to fit more archetypes of girls and women…
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On the set of The Amazing Spider-Man Part 2 Electric Boogaloo.
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Not cool, guy: A crazed Taylor Swift fan swam a mile in super cold ocean water to try to bust into her newly purchased Rhode Island manse.
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Julie Taymor, the director who believed the much-maligned Titus Andronicus was the Shakespeare play most deserving of a film adaptation that wasn't set on a not-too-distant asteroid colony called "Asteroid Rome," has settled a legal dispute with producers of the Broadway snafu Spider-Man: Turn Out the Dark, so now the…
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In December of 2011, when Frank Ocean, R&B singer and member of hip-hop collective Odd Future, was on a plane from New Orleans to L.A. he wrote a document in text-edit that he has now published on his tumblr which reveals him to be bisexual. The summer that Ocean was 19, he fell in love with his closest friend, a boy of …
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Katy Perry — now dating
Ghostbuster Dan
Florence + The Machine guitarist Robert Aykroyd — is taking a break from showbiz after her doc Katy Perry: Part Of Me is released, in order to let her heart and/or cupcake boobs heal after Aldous Snow poured Malibu rum all over them and devoured them en flambé. If she…
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BERLIN, GERMANY - JUNE 20: Actress Emma Stone and actor Andrew Garfield attend the Germany premiere of 'The Amazing Spider-Man' at Sony Center on June 20, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images for Sony Pictures)
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Ooh! Columbia Pictures has released a first batch of official movie stills from The Amazing Spider-Man and I happen to think they look pretty promising. The newest of the Spidey series will star Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker and Emma Stone as Peter's other, blonde-haired love, Gwen Stacy (not the red-headed Mary Jane …
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When Michelle Obama isn't carrying out her duties as First Lady, she's conspiring with the writers of the Ultimate Spider-Man comic book series to destroy America for racists like Glenn Beck who don't want to see a non-white Spider-Man.
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Bigelow declined the offer because she wanted to direct her own Triple Frontier, but as Women In Hollywood notes, it also would have been awesome to see a woman helm a massive-budget, critic-proof movie.
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Listen to ten minutes of Glenn Beck fellating Spider-Man, dropping the following references in extolling its virtues: global warming's wrongness, Michael Buble, big government, Cirque du Soleil, Disney World, "the spirit of entrepreneurship," and the 8th Wonder of the World.
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[On the set of Spider-Man, Los Angeles, December 8. Image via Pacific Coast News Online.]
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"Not every fight can get resolved by punching someone in the face…but Spider-Girl's gonna punch somebody anyway, just to make sure." A new Spider-Girl hits stores next week. Here, advance images and a Marvel writer on writing multidimensional female characters.
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