A different time

The original Spiderman movie (2002) had a teaser trailer that featured the Twin Towers, but it was quickly removed once 9/11 happened a couple months later. That trailer was recently restored and released for the first time in 17 years...



It's still difficult to think about that time, but it's kind of cool to see this after all of these years and remember a simpler time when the world was still waiting to see the first Spiderman movie.

It seems like we've had about 100 of them since.

SuperBoy TV Series?

I have always watched a lot of television. Probably more than any sane person should admit to. Of course, sanity is overrated.

However, until today after looking over various articles on Man of Steel (which I really enjoyed), I had never heard of the TV series The Adventures of Superboy that ran from 1988-1992.

How did I miss this?



It was even produced by the same people who made the Christopher Reeve Superman movies and I LOVED those (well, at least the first two).

It just boggles my mind that I've never even heard of the show and I used to watch anything on TV that had Superheroes...

Batman



Wonder Woman



The Super Friends



The Flash



Smallville



The Greatest American Hero



The Man from Atlantis



Lois and Clark



Bigfoot and Wildboy



The Secrets of Isis



Shazam



The Amazing Spiderman



Birds of Prey

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The Bugaloos



UltraMan



The Hulk



Electra Woman and Dyna Girl



Even this horrible live TV Special: The Legends of the Superheroes.



So, I ask you again...how did I miss The Adventures of Superboy over the course of four years on TV?



Seriously...I need to know.

European vacation

The new trailer from Spiderman: Far From Home was released...



It looks like it will be a lot of fun. Plus, it's nice to see Jake Gyllenhaal join the Marvel universe.

We'll see whether he plays a good guy or a bad guy when the movie opens on July 2nd.

Super Friday

The Avengers opens today...exciting!

It's already made over $300 million internationally (it opened earlier overseas) and I can't wait to see it!

Marvel’s The Avengers from Disney could close in on $160M when it opens in North America this weekend and $425M when it debuts in Russia and China for a possible total near $585M through Sunday. Even very conservative estimates put the worldwide total at $500M through Sunday when Joss Whedon’s actioner will be open in every movie territory except Japan. 



Also, the new trailer for The Amazing Spiderman was released this week as well.



It's looking pretty good too.

I love me some superhero movies!

Oprah in lederhosen

It looks like The Sound of Music is also one of Oprah's favorite things...

Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer will join fellow "Music" stars Charmian Carr (Liesl), Nicholas Hammond (Friedrich), Heather Menzies-Urich (Louisa), Duane Chase (Kurt), Angela Cartwright (Brigitta), Debbie Turner (Marta) and Kym Karath (Gretl) on Winfrey's show on October 29, 2010.



Ironically, three of those child actors ended up in classic Sci-Fi TV series several years later.

Angela Cartwright (Brigitta) went on to star as Penny Robinson in Lost in Space.



Nicholas Hammond (Friedrich) went on to star in The Amazing Spiderman way before Tobey Maguire was capable of being conceived.



And Heather Menzies (Louisa) went on to marry Robert Vegas Urich and also co-star in Logan's Run.



Maria and the Captain must be very proud.