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Regarding Jamie Foxx getting nominated/winning the Oscar for best actor for "Ray", he's definately going to get nominated for it and will most likely win it given that: 1. "Ray" is Jamie Foxx's proverbial coming out party with regards to him being taken seriously as a dramatic actor. So the Academy will most definately take that into consideration 2. This year is a REALLY REALLY shitty year for best actor nominees. Aside from Jim Carey for Eternal Sunshine, this year's batch of best actor award possibles is extremely thin. So Foxx has the added bonus of the fact that he doesn't have that much of a competition this year to keep him from winning Best Actor award.

It wasn't explicitly stated, since at the time DC was doing gangbusters with Death/Reign of Superman so they decided to ape the situation by way of playing it up that Az-Bats was here to stay.

Contrived plot device in the form of Batman's then doctor/girlfriend being a mutant with healing powers.

Bane debuted in the "Vengence of Bane" one-shot, which came out around the time of Batman #484-487. He hung around Batman for a couple of issues stirring shit up (most notably hooking Riddler up with the Venom steroid and saving Azreal from being beaten to death by Killer Croc) before Knightfall happened.

There was also a nonsensical twist where it was stated that him gaining the Electrical Powers and being split in two was part of a convoluted prophecy regarding Earth being attacked by a group of cosmic giants that would attempt to destroy the Earth.

I keep getting the following message popping up during the last month and a half: "eTrust EZ Antivirus real-time protection has found that C:\System Volume Information\_restore{EBECF1E0-8148-4FDC-9ACCE27AA5EF}\RP346\A0209273.exe is the Win32.SillyDI.AB Trojan." Last time this happened, I lost a good chunk of my old hard drive and had to go out and buy a new Hard-Drive/copy of Windows XP for my computer. PLEASE PLEASE help me get rid of this trojan before it does harm to my computer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. Both #503/Avengers Finale are double-sized issues so it would fit in both. 2. In my version, Hawkeye dies a heroic death saving Hank Pym, hence making up for his shitty (and utterly out of character) actions during the Austen run.

Interesting idea but horrible execution, especially with the stupid ass baby storyline. If JMS had simply established that Gwen (preferably BEFORE she met Peter) had a one time consentual boink with Norman Osborn that didn't end in pregnancy I would have no problem with it so long as the storyline was used to make Norman more sympathetic (IE the good side of Norman's personality actually loved Gwen but that the evil Goblin side murdered her just to spite the good side, leading to Norman revealing that he never told Peter he boinked Gwen because he honestly loved Gwen and didn't want to sully Gwen's good name). And it would even give a tie-in towards the recent revelation in the pages of "The Pulse" which has Norman going batshit crazy and having an imaginary Gwen talk to him.... But as it is, JMS's story is just God-Awful. Just plain God-Awful.

Knightfall was in the works long before the Death of Superman story (which was actually a last minute thing the writers came up with, when they had to scrap at the last minute their original plans for Superman #75 featuring the long awaited Clark/Lois wedding).

Avengers Finale Magneto appears, to the horror of everyone. Nick Fury tries to kill him but Magneto has a force-field that keeps Fury at bay. He explains how someone impersonated him after the destruction of Genosha, which leads to some rhetoric between Cap and Magneto over how America created the Sentinels that wiped out the country and how Magneto personally thinks that the thousands that died in NYC don't even rate comparing to the millions that died in Genosha. Magneto explains that he's been working with Professor X to rebuild Genosha/find out who it was that took his form and murdered the New Yorkers and offers to take Scarlet Witch off the Avengers hands so that she can heal with her father and Xavier. Cap gives permission and Magneto flies off, causing Nick Fury to bitchslap Cap for letting Magneto waltz in and take away Wanda. Cap tells Nick that enough fighting has happened today and walks off without a word. The rest of the issue deals with the fall-out: Iron Man and Falcon get She-Hulk out of US Custody and piss SHIELD off in the process. Hank announces that he's leaving the team to help take care of Jan, who's suffered massive internal injuries that will require her to stay in her normal size for a year/year and a half tops so that she can heal properly. Hawkeye is buried. Mach-3 and Songbird show up (to plug the new T-Bolts series) and vow to continue Hawk's legacy by reforming the T-Bolts in his honor. Meanwhile Hank gives Scott Lang's ex-wife a visit and comes into a nasty mess where we see Scott's ex-wife's new husband beating Cassie up while telling her that her dad was a worthless piece of trash that deserved to die. Hank shrinks down and watches as Cassie's mom literally tosses her daughter back to her evil step-father and tells Cassie that she was glad that Scott was dead and that she deserved to be beaten like she was. Hank procedes to grow to his normal size and beats Cassie's step-father to a bloody pulp in a one-sided fight. He then grabs Cassie takes her out of the home, telling Cassie's mom that he's use all of his power to make sure she never sees her daughter again. Cap meets up with Bruce Banner for a sit-down talk. Cap apologizes for letting Bruce take the blame for She-Hulk's rampage in "Search for She-Hulk" and talks about how the Avengers are in ruin: Hawkeye's dead, Wanda's injured/betrayed the team, Jan's injuries forcing her out of the hero business for the time being, Hank quitting to take care of her, Thor leaving the team do to his commitments with Asgard, and now the revelation that Korvac infiltrated the team and serving as members of both genders. Cap tells Bruce that he doesn't know what he'll do now especially given how the Avengers are his only family. Bruce tells Cap to continue the Avengers if the team is truly that important to him. Cap then invites Bruce to come to a memorial dinner that the Avengers are having in Hawkeye and Scott Lang's memory. Bruce says no but Cap basically begs him into saying yes. Iron Man (without his armor on) and She-Hulk return to the remains of the Avengers mansion and find that Nick Fury has gone and got a court order banning the team from returning to the mansion and rebuilding it until further notice. She-Hulk threatens to sue but a completely exhausted Iron Man refuses to do so at the moment. She-Hulk drives Tony to the Wasp's place (where the team has relocated at the moment) and asks Tony if he's talked to any of the other Avengerrs about coming back onto the team so as to keep it going. Tony says no, he hasn't talked to anyone and is just so shocked over the events of the last couple of days that he can't think straight. She-Hulk then announces that she's leaving the team to devote more time to her law career which Tony approves of. The Avengers hold a big dinner to honor Hawkeye and Ant Man's memory at a loft rented out by She-Hulk's law firm. Cap announces that he is going to continue the Avengers with Iron Man's help. We see the Avengers giving both Hawkeye and Scott Lang a fairwell toast as Jan proposes marriage to Hank at the banquet. Hank accepts and the couple gets cheered on by the crowd of heroes. We cut to Iron Man and Captain America at the remains of the Avengers mansion several weeks later. They remember back to old times and comments about how thanks to She-Hulk and her law firm, Jan and Hank have successfully gotten temporary custody over Cassie thanks to She-Hulk's law firm and that Cassie's step-dad's claims of being assaulted have been thrown out on the basis that Hank did so to protect Cassie. Suddenly Wolverine sneaks up on them as they talk about how Jan and Hank have decided to elope in Las Vegas the following week. The appearance of Magneto earlier came to the attention of the X-Men, so Logan decided to go investigate and now he wants answers. However before they can say anything there is an explosion downtown that the Avengers see. Cut to several minutes earlier as Spiderman runs into Jessica Drew downtown and they talk some about how Jessica's powers got re-activated out of the blue. As they talk we see a body being flung right into the two heroes along with a pumpkin bomb. As Spidey drags himself off the ground from the blast crater, he finds that the hero in question is the Luke Cage and standing before the three is the Green Goblin, who's holding Jessice John's dead body (dead because Goblin snapped her neck, which he states) as he declares that Cage and Spidey are going to die just like Alias did for outing him. Cue Cap and Iron Man showing up alongside Wolverine (who openly comments "I'm not an Avenger, I'm just here for the show") as we get to the final page and a generic "The story never ends" blurb along with a plug for people to buy "New Avengers".

OK this is my way of how I'd resolve Avengers Dissembled without resorting to the preferred method of having She-Hulk wake up after a lengthy bad dream and finds Scott Lang in the shower and Hawkeye in her living room playing Playstation Avengers #503 In Avengers #503, the issue opens with Hank wandering the halls of the hospital when he stumbles upon Kelsey Leigh waiting outside the pediactric wing of the hospital where Wasp is at. Hank is shocked to find her there and the fact that she has been in America for over a year, as her son is terminally ill and receiving treatment via the Maria Stark Foundation. Hank freaks out when Kelsey comments that she's never met the Avengers before and that she's never been Captain Britian. Hank then rushes off to Kelsey's hospital room where he finds Scarlet Witch waiting for him. Wanda tells Hank that he's found out too much. Hank starts to argue with Wanda about what's going on but Wanda keeps butting in and finishing Hank's sentences, to his horror. Wanda zaps Hank with a hex and leaves the hospital, while muttering that things are spirally out of control once again. At the mansion, Strange appears and starts claiming that magic is at work and responsible for the Avengers trouble. Everyone starts pointing to Wanda as Iron Man and then Wanda arrives. Wanda is extremely calm and collected when she is confronted with the accusations that she's lost control over her powers. Wonder Man comes to Wanda's defense and starts giving a list of other villains that might be to blame, starting with Korvac. Wanda then breaks and yells to Simon "no..." when Strange suddenly turns around and blasts Simon into ash. A huge ass fight breaks out as Strange morphs into Michael Korvac, who slaughters the bulk of the Avengers present in one huge blast of energy. The dust clears as Korvac reveals that he's responsible thanks to Wanda and that today is the day that the Avengers die. The surviving Avengers fight as Wanda reveals to Iron Man (before killing him via causing his armor to electricute him) that Korvac has promised to give her new, non-demonic versions of her twins if she helps destroy the Avengers. We learn, as Korvac fights Captain America, that right before the first Chuck Austen arc the Avangers discovered the Zodiac Key on their doorsteps and that Wanda used her "hex" power to activate the key and used her probability altering powers to use it to create a window in time for Korvaks to reform himself and seek revenge against the Avengers for foiling his attempt to conquer the Earth and "bring about peace". He tells Captain America that he assumed Kelsey Leigh's identity and with the help of Wanda created the whole "Lionheart of Avalon" arc as a means to infiltrate the Avengers and watch the team squirm as he and Wanda destroyed them. But as he delivers the killing blow to Captain America, he tells the group that each time he fails and has Wanda "reset" time so that he can try again. It's at this point Thor shows up and Korvak and Thor fight, culminating in Wanda pulling out her magic powers and pushing the old cosmic reset button. Everything fades to red as Korvak gloats that Thor can't stop him and that time is on his side. We cut back to the very beginning of Avengers #500 as we see the Avengers at the same table, talking about the Viper but with one huge difference: Instead of Captain Britian at the table we see Sentry! Korvak is now possing as "Kid Sentry" (think Kid Miracleman), the young sidekick of Sentry. The conversation goes as normal until Hawkeye starts commenting how he feels like he's had this conversation a million times before. At the UN we see a brand new scene as Hank is acting all stressed out and restless. He tells Wanda that he's felt like he hasn't slept in days, which Wanda agrees with by saying she knows how he feels. Hank starts to complain that he remembers doing something several minutes ago when Tony walks up to the two of them and tells them that they have ten minutes until he speaks and starts showing signs of him being unable to walk. Hank accuses Tony of being drunk but Wanda tells Hank that Tony is just worn out from fighting Korvak. Tony and Hank do a double take as Wanda starts to backpeddle but it's too late. Hank suddenly remembers everything that's happened in the previous time loop and warns them that the mansion is going to blow up. We then get treated to a retred of the exact same pages of Jack of Hearts exploding and killing Ant Man. When the team finds Jack of Heart's arm bones, Hawkeye chimes in that this is all so horribly familiar as we cut back to Wanda, Hank, and Tony all being zapped by Korvak. Korvak grabs Wanda by her hair and blathers that she's failed him and will now face the consequences. He brings out Vision and Wanda watches as Korvak sticks several orbs into Vision's mouth. Vision is then sent onto his way as Korvak wakes Iron Man and Hank up and send them out there to give their speach with their memories blurred slightly so that they don't remember Wanda saying Korvak's name... We get a confrontation with Wanda and Korvak as Korvak asks Wanda if she wants him to kill her now or if she will continue with the plan. Wanda begs Korvak to kill her and recall Vision so he doesn't get destroyed again. Korvak scoffs at this and tells Wanda that he's sick and tired of Thor foiling his plans as he is the only Avenger who can stop him. Wanda is ordered to prepare to use the Zodiac Key to destroy Thor when he shows up as he leaves. We cut back to the hospital as Hank runs into Kelsey and is talked into coming to visit her dying son. We get some banter between Hank and Kelsey as Kelsey explains her backstory about her scar when he suddenly sees the Kree ships appear in the sky. Hank rushes out to join his fellow Avengers when he is greated by a shocking figure who freaks Hank out. Back to the mansion, we see the Kree fighting the Avengers and this time around Hawkeye is prevented from dying as Hank tosses him out of the way when the Kree soldier shoots at Hank. Korvak/Kid Sentry shows up and destroys the Kree which leads to him to bullshit about how Hank Pym is responsible for the death and carnage. Hawkeye calls bullshit on this when Wanda shows up wielding the Zodiac Key right behind Korvak/Kid Sentry. Hank accuses Kid Sentry to be the one behind the chaos when Iron Man shows up. We see Wanda and Korvak whispering that things aren't going according to plan when Korvak/Kid Sentry yells to Iron Man that Hank's to blame and that the motive comes from when he caught Hawkeye in bed with Wasp. Iron Man meanwhile starts to remember being zapped and fires a blast at Kid Sentry, pissing him off and making him show himself to be Korvak. Big fight ensues and this time around, Hawkeye ends up dying by way of jumping in front of an energy blast meant for Hank. Dying Hawkeye tells Hank that he's sorry for being a jerk and Hank response by going giant-sized and attacking Wanda, crushing her body and forcing her to drop the Zodiac Key. Korvac grabs the key and threatens to kill the Avengers when Thor shows up. Thor is uber-pissed and kills Korvac by bashing his head with the hammer until his head is a bloody smear on the pavement. Everyone freaks out as the Zodiac Key starts to glow and implodes into a tear in the space-time as the Avengers freak out over how to close it. Suddenly though the tear closes onto itself as we see Wanda, badly injured but still alive, using her powers to destroy the key. Wanda is badly injured and near death as she explains how she sold the Avengers out for the chance of being reunited with her children and begs for forgiveness. As the Avengers debate what they should do as they stand over the dying Scarlet Witch, Hank offers a suggest that they hand her over to the person who helped him get to the mansion in time: MAGNETO.

Liscencing problems: IE Eddie Vedder refusing to let people use his music in compilations/video games and the fact that Nirvana's music rights are shared by a trio of people who can't agree on anything...

One problem with Zaun and John Flaherty: Why keep/sign BOTH of them when they'll never get any playing time? I mean, what's the fucking point of having a back-up catcher when that over-rated piece of shit Jorge Posada is the only catcher that the idiots in the Yankees organization will ever let play?

Guy's surviving Rebirth, since Geoff Johns has gone on record as saying that he won't be killing any GLs off in the mini-series. At worse, Guy is going to get depowered so he can be given a new GL ring once the new GL series gets started up.

Out or curiousity Slayer, where is the Milhouse quote in your sig picture from?

stopped reading. Gutting a team assures nothing but losing for several years/ What do you call the last couple of years? Let's face it. The Yankees are FUBARed with the current roster of mega-millionaires. Best gut the fish NOW and restock with the fact that it's better to gut now and get it over with than to piss away additional years with a belief that things will magically get better on their own by way of tossing around money before you have no choice whatsoever to rebuild when all of your "stars" are worthless and/or crippled....

Can someone please post a detailed list of which Sportcenter commercials are on the bonus DVD packaged with the ESPN 25 DVD?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...d__fields_close Glenn Close is joining the cast of "The Shield" in season four, playing the role of "Monica Rawling" the new police captain at the Barn when the show starts it's fourth season in the spring of 2005. According to the article, she'll be in all 13 episodes of the season and that her character will have a controversial agenda that will result in her giving Vic even more authority than he already has to carry out her unspecified plans for the Farmington district.

Anyone watching ABC's "Desperate Housewives"? Great show and one which stars one of my favorite Melrose Place Alumni Marcia Cross as well as Teri Hatcher and Felicity Huffman as a group of suburban housewives dealing with a neighbor's suicide and other family crisises.

Same thing can be said about Parker and Stone AND WORSE, given how they do the EXACT FUCKING THING and worse... And if conservatives do stupid things, then it's not funny and is off-limits in terms of mocking.... Again that's ok but you can't fucking pick and chose WHAT bad things you want to highlight in order to make the overall mesage that America still rules if you want the audience to take said message home with them. Except when THEY (Parker and Stone) are the ones being mocked and cursed and stuff. Though I'll gladly eat my words if Stone and Parker are man enough not to retaliate against Sean Penn through South Park by way of not mocking Penn in any way on the show for daring to call them on their shit....

The fact that the Rock got all of his fame and success BEFORE HHH did and got it handed to him by Vince on a silver platter while HHH had to whore his ass off to get the stuff Rock was given? HHH is a very petty figure who's bloody climb to the top was based solely on the fact that Austin and Rock both leapfrogged over him on several occassions to get to the top cf the company. Rock in particular becasue they worked a rather extensive program in 98 designed to make both figures upper card level wrestlers and "made it" before HHH did.

The main problem is that Parker and Stone utterly and completely pussied out on TMB the moment that Bush got elected. The show originally was supposed to air a month after the election and they said it was going to be just like South Park in terms of no-holds barred mocking of the institute of the presidency. But once Bush got elected they immeadiately delayed the project for over five months and in that time totally castrated it to be nothing more than a bunch of pussy sitcom parodies with Bush and his family plugged into them with ZERO bite.

I don't know, Parker may be the brains but he's also got a bad habit of coming off like an utter prick in interviews. Stone meanwhile comes off in interviews as a decent fellow who seems to not have become as drunk off of his newfound fame and clout as his partner even if he is a "hanger-on".... As for EricMM: Basketball was crap, Orgasmo was merely so-so, and Canibals the Musical was an utter disappointment IMHO. And don't get me started on That's My Bush. They've only hit gold with South Park. And while the show has definately improved in terms of writing over the last couple of seasons there still are crap in it that makes me wonder what fucking planet Parker and Stone live on.

It all has to do with the cult of personality that Parker and Stone have created for themselves and the notion that they are never to blame for their problems. Has it been stated that P&S were required by Paramount to get an "R-Rating" for them to even greenlight the release of the film? If they new they had to get an R-Rating then I have ZERO FUCKING SYMPATHY for Parker and Stone. They've been in the game long enough to know what they can and can't do and should have planned accordingly. Perhaps people are aware that this whole thing could end with P&S throwing a temper tantrum and not releasing the film at all if they can't escape the NC-17 rating out of a sense of pure spite? Remember, Parker and Stone are ultra-cynical capitalists at heart (and have even stated as such in interviews) and that they know full-well that they can manipulate their fanboy legions to create a shitstorm for them if they can't get their way. And perhaps they are uber jealous that someone like Michael Moore could get his film a huge box-office haul after his film almost didn't get released and are now waving the flag of "Look at me! I'm being put down by the MPAA!!!!" in hopes of emulating the box-office successs of Moore's film? Especially given how their film is one of those films that are only going to appeal toward their die-hard fanboys and not sell to the casual audience and die a horribly nasty death at the box office, further showing that P&S are nothing more than a one-trick pony who can only be crude and put down other people who they just don't like? So as far as I'm concerned, Parker and Stone can go jump in the lake and drown. Cause I'm sick and tired of them acting like their shit don't stink and acting like they are the only ones in the world to ever be repressed by someone else.

Another problem is of course his obsession with sucking up to HHH (out of him wanting to get in good with the WWE office during 2002, when he was applying for a writing job every 2 months), which culminated in SK literally going out of hsi way to avoiding criticizing HHH during his 2002-2004 reign of terror, which culminated in his unhealthy obsession and unfunny running jokes about him gushing over HHH's hairstyles in every match review that he did....