![]() ![]() Parker ( Tobey Maguire) is in college now, studying physics at Columbia, more helplessly in love than ever with Mary Jane Watson ( Kirsten Dunst). It wasn't that Spider-Man could swing from skyscrapers that won over his readers it was that he fretted about personal problems in the thought balloons above his Spidey face mask. ![]() Peter Parker was an insecure high school student, in grade trouble, inarticulate in love, unready to assume the responsibilities that came with his unexpected superpowers. It succeeds by being true to the insight that allowed Marvel Comics to upturn decades of comic-book tradition: Readers could identify more completely with heroes like themselves than with remote godlike paragons. "Spider-Man 2" is the best superhero movie since the modern genre was launched with " Superman" (1978). ![]() The clock tower featured in Back to the Future was among the landmark set. ![]() The tragedy is believed to be one of the longest-running commercial fires in Los Angeles County history, partly due to low water-pressure which slowed down the dousing effort.Nine firefighters and one sheriff's deputy suffered minor injuries, some in an explosion in the building housing the studio's (replaceable, thankfully) videotape and film reel library. The blaze began just before dawn on a sound stage and ultimately claimed at least one building and three blocks' worth of movie facades, while more than 100 firefighters and water-dropping helicopters battled the flames. Universal Studios Fire Ravages 'New York City,' Ghost Whisperer SetsĪ faux version of New York City that Spider-Man and the Transformers once called home and a New England-y lot that was featured in Back to the Future as well as episodes of TV's Ghost Whisperer, Monk and House went up in flames Sunday morning when a massive, 12-hour fire tore through the Universal Studios back lot in Universal City, Calif. ![]()
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