Stan Lee (1922-2018)
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Stan Lee (1922-2018)
Alain Resnais was reasonably well known to be a fan of American comics. In fact, of all major French auteurs, he may have had the most delightfully catholic tastes - his ardent love of the work of Alan Ayckbourn being another example.
Federico Fellini was also a huge Stan Lee fan, but given Fellini’s own background (not least as a caricaturist) that’s much less surprising. According to Lee, Fellini paid him a visit once, and the receptionist announced him as “Fred Felony”.
Federico Fellini was also a huge Stan Lee fan, but given Fellini’s own background (not least as a caricaturist) that’s much less surprising. According to Lee, Fellini paid him a visit once, and the receptionist announced him as “Fred Felony”.
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Sure, comics as a medium were taken more seriously in Europe. It's more the Henry Winkler as Spiderman part that made me think.
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Young George RR Martin was a huge fan of Lee & Kirby, and frequent contributor to Marvel letters pages.
https://www.slashfilm.com/george-rr-mar ... cs-letter/
https://www.slashfilm.com/george-rr-mar ... cs-letter/
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What’s the over/under on Marvel bringing a CGI Lee back to life at the end of Avengers 4?
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I believe he's already pre-filmed cameos for the next handful of movies, so no need. I would also bet money they anticipated needing a "final" cameo and filmed one that could serve as a send-off
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Last year Criterion produced a short piece about this for the Criterion Channel. Yesterday they shared it on their social media accounts: twitter and facebookZot! wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 5:43 amSay what you want about Stan Lee, he cared about funny books through the thick and thin...
I had not heard this storyThe legendary Alain Resnais (Hiroshima Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad) worked with Lee on a proposal for a Spider-Man movie that was to star Henry Winkler (Fonzie of Happy Days).
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They should have known it wasn't Spike Lee because he didn't say "Knicks first"
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They also collaborated on an unproduced original science fiction screenplay called The Monster Maker. Criterion interviewed Lee about it.Zot! wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 5:43 amSay what you want about Stan Lee, he cared about funny books through the thick and thin...
I had not heard this storyThe legendary Alain Resnais (Hiroshima Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad) worked with Lee on a proposal for a Spider-Man movie that was to star Henry Winkler (Fonzie of Happy Days).
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Still not as bad as WFAN’s Mike “Francesser”
Eddie from Hoboken’s reaction...god I love Mike’s callers.
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Not to defend Francesa (the sports pope, as one NY sports writer calls him derogatorily) but this is nothing new. I’ve listened to him since the late 80’s and have heard him say “who cares” about other celebrities that have passed over the years. As long as he has no interest in that persons talents he will be dismissive. That’s him. To me it’s a non-story.
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“Okay, back afta this...”
I thought it was quite touching. He really captured his essence.
No surprise, Stern made good use of this clip in his show.
I thought it was quite touching. He really captured his essence.
No surprise, Stern made good use of this clip in his show.
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I'm not saying he's not a piece of work, because he is, but this doesn't surprise me.
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This is going to get him as much heat as his 9/11 comments, I'm sure.
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It takes a lot to make me melt (and I could not care less about comics), but this is a very touching and profound impromptu "final message" from Lee
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I believe the words you’re looking for are
“‘Nuff said.”
“‘Nuff said.”
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This article linked at the bottom made me feel something at a different registermfunk9786 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 15, 2018 3:06 pmIt takes a lot to make me melt (and I could not care less about comics), but this is a very touching and profound impromptu "final message" from Lee
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Nice syntactic ambiguity
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Or in Maher's case, he "grew up" and made his career in entertainment by acting in the likes of Pizza Man and Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death, in his thirties. Tell us more about all this "stupidity" that having pictures accompany words is responsible for.But the assumption everyone had back then, both the adults and the kids, was that comics were for kids, and when you grew up you moved on to big-boy books without the pictures.
Anyway, that assumption went down the drain over 15 years ago, and the best comics justify the jettisoning of this snobbery and condescension over and over.
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I’ve said this before, but I’m not taking lectures in making people stupid from someone that almost single-handedly mainstreamed Ann Coulter.
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Without engaging in the question of whether he’s right or wrong about comic books, it’s a bad argument to say he can’t criticize them because he acted in garbage movies while trying to survive in the entertainment industry. Also, seems like a hell of an overstatement to say he “made his career” in those as if that’s what he’s known for.
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Comic books and the movies they inspire is the new way to look down on people. Look for a lot more of the putative elite to use it as the litmus test that separates them from the masses.
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There's nothing new about it, what Maher is saying is nothing different than what people have been saying about comic books since the beginning, except to apply it to a president who didn't really win over the majority.