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More Trouble for 'Spider-Man' as a Leading Actress Leaves
By Mara Gay - AOL News"Spider-Man" can't seem to catch a break. Natalie Mendoza, one of the lead actresses in "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," is reportedly leaving the $65 million show, in yet another major blow to the most expensive Broadway production ever staged. The much-hyped production has suffered a series of setbacks while still in previews -- including serious injuries to four cast members. And now, The New York Times reports that Mendoza, who sustained a concussion during a performance last month, has quit. Bruce Glikas, FilmMagic Natalie Mendoza poses backstage after the opening-night ...
Theatergoers Don't Seem to Care About the 'Spider-Man' Musical's Problems
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsThe show must go on. Though coverage of Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" musical has focused on the injuries, technical mishaps and bad reviews, theatergoers are still lining up for tickets. The 2010 performances have been sold out for a long time, but the new publicity seems to have prompted people to pick up tickets to 2011 shows -- assuming, of course, that "Spider-Man" makes it to next year. Watch some ticket-buyers explain why they decided to shell out for the seemingly cursed production. One woman explains that the ticket-seller "promised me nobody would fall on my head or in ...
Stuntman Seriously Injured in Latest 'Spider-Man' Mishap
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsA stuntman doubling for the lead actor in the problem-plagued Broadway production of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" is hospitalized in serious condition today after falling during the final minutes of a performance. Bellevue Hospital spokesman Stephen Bohlen told AOL News that Christopher Tierney was admitted with undisclosed injuries. Bohlen had no details on the nature of the accident, but the New York Daily News reported that the actor's harness snapped near the end of Monday's performance of the $65 million show at the Foxwoods Theater. Kathy Willens, AP A giant banner covers ...
Fall at 'Spider-Man' Musical: Stuntman's Spidey Sense Wasn't Tingling Enough
By Torie Bosch - AOL News"Break a leg" is still just an expression, right? During a preview performance on Broadway last night, a stuntman playing Spider-Man fell an estimated 20 to 30 feet. Despite the dramatic tumble, he is believed to have suffered only minor injuries. Audience members initially thought the fall was part of the stunt-filled show, only to realize that something was wrong after a woman began screaming. Watch the fall, as seen from the audience: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy So is the expensive, much-hyped show cursed? Some of the "Spider-Man: ...
Spider-Man Left Dangling in Broadway Debacle
By Lisa Flam - AOL News
(Nov. 29) -- The Spider-Man musical has been the talk of Broadway, and not all of it good. Costing $65 million, it's the most expensive show ever created, and the high-flying production has been beset by delays and injuries. "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" took off Sunday night with its first preview performance, and there were several glitches along the way. With nearly 2,000 in the audience at New York's Foxwoods Theater, the show was stopped five times because of technical problems, and the first act ended early, with Spidey hanging 10 feet above the audience, The New York Times ...
Aussie Gets Cozy With Poisonous Spiders
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 15) -- Is there a limit to what you'd do to raise money for charity? An Australian man who fancies himself a real-life "spiderman" is spending three weeks trapped in a storefront window with hundreds of poisonous spiders, hoping to break a record for habitation with creepy-crawlies and raise money for a local children's charity. Nick Le Souef, a 67-year-old opal miner from Melbourne, stepped into the 12-by-4-foot window of his downtown shop today, where he plans to spend the next three weeks sleeping, eating and working alongside some of Australia's most deadly arachnids -- redbacks, ...
2 Nabbed in Halloween Shooting of Costumed LA Boy
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LOS ANGELES (Nov. 5) - Two reputed gang members were arrested in the Halloween killing of a 5-year-old boy who was shot in the head as he showed off his Spider-Man costume in his backyard, police said Friday. LAPD / AP Aaron Shannon Jr., 5, was shot while showing off his Halloween costume in his backyard on Sunday in Los Angeles. Police have arrested two suspects in the shooting. The arrests were bittersweet for the family, who authorities speculate were wrongly targeted by the gunmen as rival gang members. "I'm happy for the community but it does nothing for me, personally," the boy's ...
Super Shrinks Psychoanalyze Superheroes
By David Moye - AOL NewsSAN DIEGO (July 22) -- Being a superhero has its perks, but caped crusaders like Spider-Man and Batman also can suffer from some super-sized mental problems. However, as anyone who reads comic books knows, it's difficult for Spidey or the Caped Crusader to carve out time from their busy crime-fighting schedule to talk with a mental health expert. But three L.A.-based psychiatrists have come to the rescue, figuring that if they can't get the superheroes on the couch, they can at least give their fans some food for thought about mental health issues. Christopher John Pozios Psychiatric ...
13-Year-Old's Wall Climbing Machine Really Sucks
By David Moye - AOL News(July 2) -- The coming of summer has many school children climbing the walls, but one 13-year-old inventor is doing it literally. Hibiki Kono of Cambridge, England, is sucking up lots of media attention because of a wall-climbing device he invented that uses two 15-pound vacuum cleaners Kono came up with the sucky machine as part of a technology class. He spent five months designing and making the gadget, which includes two giant suckerpads that are attached to the 1,400-watt vacuum cleaners via air hoses and two harnesses for the feet. Not surprisingly, Kono is a big fan of ...
Spiderman Sells Out (Even Investigative Reporters Gotta Eat)
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyFor about six years in the 1990s, I was a segment producer at ABC news magazine PrimeTime Live. With a huge budget and tons of talented camera persons, tape editors and steel-minded senior producers, I collaborated on correspondent-centered mini-documentaries about Medicare fraud, cell phone dead zones and 5th grade boys who set off their elementary school fire alarm and then ambush their classmates filing obediently onto the play yard (exclusive home video of 11-year-old killer!). It was insanely hard work. There were a relatively small number of people in the world who did my job at ABC, ...
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