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1. ‘Spider-Man’ way back when: ‘Jumbo’
(Entertainment/Movies)

Spidey's long-lost Broadway ancestor was a mammoth 1935 musical circus BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Even as the eternally-previewing "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" re-spins its $65 million ...

2. REVIEW: ‘Cymbeline’ gets a keen showing
(Entertainment/Movies)

... dismal doings REVIEW: ‘A Small Fire' burns briefly REVIEW: ‘Dracula' revival looks DOA ‘Spider-Man' spins widespread interest in Broadway REVIEW: ‘Three Pianos' celebrates Schubert REVIEW: ...

3. REVIEW: ‘Honey Brown Eyes’ looks at Bosnian horrors
(Entertainment/Movies)

... ‘Other Desert Cities' sizzles with great acting REVIEW: ‘Blood From A Stone' drips with dismal doings REVIEW: ‘A Small Fire' burns briefly REVIEW: ‘Dracula' revival looks DOA ‘Spider-Man' ...

4. REVIEW: ‘John Gabriel Borkman’ seems a stranger at BAM
(Entertainment/Movies)

... drips with dismal doings REVIEW: ‘A Small Fire' burns briefly REVIEW: ‘Dracula' revival looks DOA ‘Spider-Man' spins widespread interest in Broadway REVIEW: ‘Three Pianos' celebrates Schubert ...

5. REVIEW: ‘Other Desert Cities' sizzles with great acting
(Entertainment/Movies)

... A Stone' drips with dismal doings REVIEW: ‘A Small Fire' burns briefly REVIEW: ‘Dracula' revival looks DOA ‘Spider-Man' spins widespread interest in Broadway REVIEW: ‘Three Pianos' celebrates ...

6. REVIEW: ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ offers a Wilde time
(Entertainment/Movies)

... DOA ‘Spider-Man' spins widespread interest in Broadway REVIEW: ‘Three Pianos' celebrates Schubert REVIEW: ‘Donny & Marie — A Broadway Christmas' offers Osmond fans a holiday treat REVIEW: ...

7. REVIEW: ‘Blood From A Stone’ drips with dismal doings
(Entertainment/Movies)

... at Theatre Row, 410 W. 42nd St., New York. Call (212) 239-6200 or visit www.thenewgroup.org. ALSO BY MICHAEL SOMMERS REVIEW: ‘A Small Fire' burns briefly REVIEW: ‘Dracula' revival looks DOA ‘Spider-Man' ...

8. REVIEW: ‘A Small Fire’ burns briefly
(Entertainment/Movies)

... through Jan. 23 at Playwrights Horizons, 416 W. 42nd St., New York. Call (212) 279-4200 or visit www.playwrightshorizons.org. ALSO BY MICHAEL SOMMERS REVIEW: ‘Dracula' revival looks DOA ‘Spider-Man' ...

9. REVIEW: ‘Dracula’ revival looks DOA
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Paul Alexander's inept production. In place of Edward Gorey's spidery stage designs, Dana Kenn's homely settings oddly suggest a community theater effort and the generally amateurish performances confirm ...

10. ‘Spider-Man’ spins widespread interest in Broadway
(Entertainment/Movies)

... have shown the slightest interest in Broadway — or the theater in any respect — have been asking me about "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark." Whether it's the spectacular nature of the $65 million attraction ...

11. No teapots, but plenty of ‘Tempest’ (trailer and movie review)
(Entertainment/Movies)

... of the musical "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark." She has much better luck on-screen with gimmicks that range from a storm at sea (hence the title) to pyrotechnics and from the (literally) disembodied spirit ...

12. ‘The Tempest’: Movie review and trailer
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Taymor's latest Broadway musical venture is "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark," with Reeve Carney as Peter Parker. Taymor also directed the unfairly maligned (at least, I thought so) Beatles movie "Across ...

13. Kirsten Dunst making an on-screen comeback
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Robert Durst and his disappearing wife. Dunst's most famous movie role, as Mary Jane Watson in "Spider-Man" and its two blockbuster sequels, nabbed her an MTV Movie Award for best kiss in 2002. According ...

14. Martha Stewart’s gardener to host a fittingly uncommon open house at Atlock Farm in Somerset
(Life/Style)

... at nurseries as well as supermarkets and hardware stores and you name it — but rare new amaryllis plants that look "spidery" and more like botanicals, or even experimental variegated poinsettias. Although ...

15. Keith Olbermann, cable TV sports and news and a political boondoggle
(Sports/Professional)

... of the 1899 Cleveland Spiders — the worst team ever in Major League Baseball — does not make him an expert on global economy, regional conflicts, the crumbling infrastructure in the country and taxation ...

16. Check out Bob's bio...
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... From The Cheap Seats: Lifestyles of the Unskilled and Mediocre," is available at random flea markets and various undisclosed locations everywhere. Mr. Holt lives in a spider hole in Wenonah, New Jersey, ...

17. Exploring New Jersey’s nocturnal habitats for eyeshine
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... have green. Spider eyeshine looks like brilliant diamonds. Biologists aren't positive what causes these color variations. The predatory advantage of nocturnal vision transcends species lines. Creatures ...

18. Movie review: 'Never Let Me Go' starring Keira Knightley
(Entertainment/Movies)

...  Ishiguro is writing science fiction, although not of the time-traveling-babes-with-radioactive-spiders sort. It is more social science fiction, ideas that might be recognizable to fans of "Brave New ...

19. Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando’ comes strangely alive
(Entertainment/Movies)

...  The excellent ensemble work of Tom Nelis, Howard Overshown and David Greenspan is dominated by the latter actor who is touching as a spidery Queen Elizabeth and later hilarious as a grotesque Balkans ...

20. New Jersey's Neatstuff Collectibles to display prize pieces at Big Apple Comic Con
(Life/Style)

... that was about to be canceled in 1996. "We have first issues of all the major characters, Ironman, Spider-Man, Thor, [and] comic related toys and collectibles from the 30s, 40s and 50s, basically anything ...