For the last 21 years Marvel Comics have written about Spiderman and his wife, Mary Jane Watson, but not any more.
In a bid to confront the dilemma of how to allow the superhero to age gracefully, and also gain the attention of younger readers, writers felt it would be easier if he wasn't married.
In a plot twist that has enraged some fans, Spiderman has had his entire memory of his marriage erased.
Peter Parker AKA Spiderman has been spinning webs and saving lives for over 40 years. The comic book character-come-superbrand was first created in the 1960s and was married in the 1980s but is now single again.
The move is not the first time writers have resorted to such a twist, and then received a backlash.
Fans of the 1980s American TV drama 'Dallas' saw Bobby Ewing return after a massacre of characters turned out to be a dream.
Monday 23 June 2008
Monday 16 June 2008
Miroslav Vitous
Artist: Miroslav Vitous
Genre(s):
New Age
Jazz
Discography:
Universal Syncopations
Year: 2003
Tracks: 9
Bireli Lagrene and Special Guests
Year: 1998
Tracks: 8
Journey's End
Year: 1983
Tracks: 6
Best known as unrivaled of the foremost young bassists in the jazz-rock movement of the late '60s and early '70s, Miroslav Vitous is one of Europe's most versatile imports, equally at home in mainstream idioms and level down music. A sometime leader, his bass dances and skitters around an supporting players as a coequal phallus of the front strain, and he makes very creative use of the bow. He is influenced non simply by bassists like Scott LaFaro, Ron Carter and Gary Peacock, merely too by Czech folk music.
Vitous began his musical studies on the fiddle at eld six-spot, switch to piano from ages nine to fourteen earlier in conclusion settling upon the bass. While studying at the Prague Conservatory, he played with a trio that included his blood brother Alan on drums and Jan Hammer -- some other future jazz-rock mover and shaker -- on piano. After winning a scholarship to Berklee in 1966, he touched to New York the next year and wound up on the job with Art Farmer, Freddie Hubbard, Bob Brookmeyer, Clark Terry, and very briefly, Miles Davis.
Today i of the most highly touted prodigies in jazz, Vitous started playing in a recurring triad with Chick Corea and Roy Haynes on Corea's 1968 album Now He Sings, Now He Sobs. He then joined one of Herbie Mann's most democratic groups from 1968 until 1970, with time out for a turn with Stan Getz; Mann produced his number 1 album, a pioneering series of prolonged jazz-rock workouts called Infinite Search on the flutist's Embryo label. As a creation member of Weather Report, Vitous helped delineate the band's freewheeling initial level, leaving the group in late 1973 as its music began to evolve into more than structured forms. A incite to Los Angeles in 1974 lED to a yearlong session of woodshedding in private with a new custom-made instrument, a double-necked guitar and bass. However, that experimentation did not pan out, and he returned to the bass, ahead sessions for Warner Bros., Arista, and from 1979, a sporadic series of dates for ECM as a leader and in reunions of Corea's bop-to-free Trio Music chemical group.
In the meanwhile, Vitous became immersed in academe, joining the module of the New England Conservatory in 1979 and becoming head of the jazz department in 1983. Although his profile isn't most as highschool as it was at the peak of the jazz-rock geological era, he continued to play at jazz festivals and record into the 1990s.
Sunday 8 June 2008
Video: The 2008 National Memorial Day Concert on PBS: A Time to Remember, to Heal and Bring our Nation Together
WASHINGTON, May 19 -- As the war in Iraq and Afghanistan
wages on, PBS unites our nation with the award-winning National Memorial
Day Concert (http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/) honoring the service
and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform, their families at home and
all of those who have given their lives for our country. The event, which
has become the memorial service for our entire nation, is co-hosted
(http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/features/cohost.html) for the third
year by Gary Sinise (CSI: New York) and Tony Award-winner Joe Mantegna
(Criminal Minds), two acclaimed actors who have dedicated themselves to
veteran's causes and supporting our troops in active service. The top-rated
show will be broadcast live on PBS from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol
on Sunday, May 25, 2008 from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. ET (check local listings)
before a concert audience of 300,000, millions more at home, as well as to
our troops serving around the world on the American Forces Radio and
Television Network.
To view the Multimedia News Release, go to:
http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/capital/33101/
"I think all Americans have a moral obligation to honor the military,
by taking a moment to pause and reflect on the bravery and sacrifice of our
men and women in uniform, so that we can truly appreciate
(http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/remembrance/) what they gave to
preserve our freedoms," said Joe Mantegna. Added co-host Gary Sinise,
"Lending a hand to our country's servicemen and women is truly one of the
most rewarding things I have ever done. Knowing that they are not forgotten
(http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/stories/) and that their sacrifice
is appreciated can make a world of difference."
Joining co-hosts Sinise and Mantegna is an all-star line-up
(http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/concert/performers.html) including:
multiple Grammy award-winning Motown legend Gladys Knight; classical
crossover soprano Sarah Brightman; General Colin L. Powell USA (Ret.); Best
Actress Tony Award-winner Idina Menzel (Wicked, Rent); actor and comedian
Denis Leary (Rescue Me); distinguished actor Charles Durning; country music
star Rodney Atkins; actor and singer John Schneider; actress Gail O'Grady
(American Dreams, Boston Legal); and film and television actress Caitlin
Wachs; in performance with the National Symphony Orchestra under the
direction of maestro Erich Kunzel.
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wages on, PBS unites our nation with the award-winning National Memorial
Day Concert (http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/) honoring the service
and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform, their families at home and
all of those who have given their lives for our country. The event, which
has become the memorial service for our entire nation, is co-hosted
(http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/features/cohost.html) for the third
year by Gary Sinise (CSI: New York) and Tony Award-winner Joe Mantegna
(Criminal Minds), two acclaimed actors who have dedicated themselves to
veteran's causes and supporting our troops in active service. The top-rated
show will be broadcast live on PBS from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol
on Sunday, May 25, 2008 from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. ET (check local listings)
before a concert audience of 300,000, millions more at home, as well as to
our troops serving around the world on the American Forces Radio and
Television Network.
To view the Multimedia News Release, go to:
http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/capital/33101/
"I think all Americans have a moral obligation to honor the military,
by taking a moment to pause and reflect on the bravery and sacrifice of our
men and women in uniform, so that we can truly appreciate
(http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/remembrance/) what they gave to
preserve our freedoms," said Joe Mantegna. Added co-host Gary Sinise,
"Lending a hand to our country's servicemen and women is truly one of the
most rewarding things I have ever done. Knowing that they are not forgotten
(http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/stories/) and that their sacrifice
is appreciated can make a world of difference."
Joining co-hosts Sinise and Mantegna is an all-star line-up
(http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/concert/performers.html) including:
multiple Grammy award-winning Motown legend Gladys Knight; classical
crossover soprano Sarah Brightman; General Colin L. Powell USA (Ret.); Best
Actress Tony Award-winner Idina Menzel (Wicked, Rent); actor and comedian
Denis Leary (Rescue Me); distinguished actor Charles Durning; country music
star Rodney Atkins; actor and singer John Schneider; actress Gail O'Grady
(American Dreams, Boston Legal); and film and television actress Caitlin
Wachs; in performance with the National Symphony Orchestra under the
direction of maestro Erich Kunzel.
See Also
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