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Spidey "got married" at Shea that day in 1987, (IIRC the same night Dwight Gooden returned from his suspenion) everyone got a free copy of the Amazing Spider-Man 1987 Annual that was the issue where Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson tied the knot. Hulk, Captain America and Spidey's "Amazing Friends" co-stars Iceman and Firestar also made apperances. (no fun and games with villians making apperances) Neat publicity tie-in though, but highly cheezy and not something that should ever occur again! Also Spidey was been spotted hanging with Mr. Met and crawling around Shea in help for the promotion of the first Spider-Man movie.

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=41291&type=0 Producers Beefed Up Spidey 3 Sam Raimi, writer/director of Spider-Man 3, told SCI FI Wire that he had a smaller sequel in mind with fewer characters, until producers Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin suggested adding a key villain and a key love interest. "I had worked on the story with my brother, Ivan, and primarily it was a story that featured the Sandman [Thomas Haden Church]," Raimi said in a news conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., last week. "It was really about Peter, Mary Jane, Harry and that new character." That's Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire), Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) and Harry Osborn (James Franco). Then Ziskin suggested adding Gwen Stacy, played by Bryce Dallas Howard, a popular character in the Marvel comics, who was Peter Parker's first love interest before she perished and before Mary Jane Watson appeared. "Well, my brother and I had written in the story about another woman that recognized Peter and knew who he was at this dinner and that Mary Jane got jealous of her," Raimi said. "But Laura Ziskin, my producer, said, 'Let's make it Gwen.' And I said, 'I don't think I should, because, ... really, Gwen was introduced before Mary Jane in the comic books, and now I'm introducing her later, and ... she's not even in high school anymore. She's in college. And I'm afraid if I introduce Gwen, the fans will have all these expectations, which we're not going to deliver in this picture.' And she said, 'Well, the fans would much rather have Gwen make an introduction now, and you can do what you need to do or someone can do what they need to do in the fourth picture with her, but at least you've introduced her, and they would appreciate that.'" Raimi said he considered the suggestion. "After much soul-searching, I thought, 'Maybe it's true. I've already screwed up the order, and I've already started the Mary Jane [storyline] first,'" Raimi said. "'Whenever [Gwen's] introduced, she'll be introduced in the wrong order. I might as well give the fans the introduction to Gwen.' So I took her advice and named her Gwen Stacy and therefore connected her to a policeman who had been on the periphery of the scenes [and became her father, Capt. Stacy, played by James Cromwell]. Made a little stronger relationship between them but, not much, just enough to be true to the fact that she was his daughter. That's about all." As he has discussed previously, Raimi added that it was Arad's idea to add the villain Venom to the mix. "Avi Arad, my partner and the former president of Marvel at the time, said to me, 'Sam, ... you're not paying attention to the fans enough,'" Raimi said. "'You need to think about them. You've made two movies now with your favorite villains, and now you're about to make another one with your favorite villains. The fans love Venom. He is the fan favorite. All Spider-Man readers love Venom, and even though you came from '70s Spider-Man, this is what the kids are thinking about. Please incorporate Venom. Listen to the fans now.' And so that's really where I realized, 'OK, maybe I don't have the whole Spider-Man universe in my head. I need to learn a little bit more about Spider-Man and maybe incorporate this villain to make some of the real die-hard fans of Spider-Man finally happy.'" Spider-Man 3 opens May 4. —Patrick Lee, News Editor

From the Kevin Smith movie Chasing Amy, one of the stars (Jason Lee as "Banky" in the film) is part of a comic book writer/drawer team, the drawer part but apparantly the writer is also the inker so he gets heckled, frequently, by a fan (played by co-producer Scott Moiser) who calls him a tracer. It basically implies that the person who draws the art for a comic book has a really small role in the gestation of the comic book. Not really true of course, but the character is an insecure twat that he lashes out at the ahole who calls him a tracer.

Edgy DC wrote: I guess that means more pencilling than inking. So he is a F'N TRACER!

Yancy Street Gang wrote: This movie wasn't made with a Spider-Man 4 in mind. There may yet be one, but this movie doesn't set us up in any way for what might come next. Which is the reason why Sony pretty much "forced" Sam Rami to use Venom in this film. Rami wanted to concentrate on the more classic villians that were created during Stan Lee's run with the character, but Sony essentially made Rami use probably the most popular villian in Spidey's Rouges Gallery.

I hope so too, but then again the same guys cheated a bit when they finally got a Sentinel in X3. Basically a Danger Room exercise and all you saw were lights and smoke and a giant head crashing down with Wolverine trimphantly on top. Then again weren't there rumors that Johnny Storm wouldn't be on fire, but be able to shoot flames from his hands or something?

Major news about Galactus' apperance in the film By comparision, here is what the Devourer of Worlds looks like in comic form, to scale with the other characters

Which probably proves your point about my half-assed attempt at a Met HOF as voted by members of the internet community. I went through some of my old (1999, 2000) vote totals of it when I did it back on the original MOFO and somehow Bruce Boisclair got a vote! Granted it probably was a cheeky vote ala the lone vote a guy with no hope of staying on a ballot past one year gets on the actual BBWAA HOF vote every year. I might take your suggestions and do something like that over this coming winter, just wipe the slate clean of that old project (and I think I may have found a "home" for it) and start anew.

Neat, very nice tribute.

Are other deceased Mets among the 500 afforded the same as well?

Read through the rankings folder. FK, YSG and company started with the rankings sometime on the old EZE Board version of this forum where the members had to rank the top 20 Mets of that particular season in order of performance. After all season totals were tabulated, the player totals were combined and VOILA! The Top 500 Mets!

TheOldMole wrote: The ones that surprise me for being in the bottom group. Milledge, obviously. Amos Otis Mike Cubbage, for all his Met organization history, coaching and managing -- you'd think someone would be interested. And most of all, Gil Hodges. I'd like to start a movement to ask everyone to check out the Hodges page several times a day. But that would be cheating, and I won't. This isn't the UMDB Popularity rankings, check the Rankings Forum, its ranking the top 500 Mets of all time based on votings per seasons.

My cousin checks in, and his team "has the dandiest nickname, The Flying Dutchmen!" That quote is from the radio ad for DHL's Hometown Heroes thing last summer with the faux Honus Wagner calling up telling the radio host why he should be voted.

Okay I got the kid interested, hopefully he'll sign up before the draft. He's good for it, probably just too busy with all the Spring Breaking he's doing right now!

I might be able to recruit a MFY cousin of mine, I'll know hopefully in the next couple of days

Think I might give this a whirl! Fairfield Stags Represent!

HA HA HA YOU ARE CORRECT SIR!

Just noticed something, it appears that a good majority of films considerd some form of comedy, or at the very least movies where there is considerable time lapse there is always a scene of two or more characters eating. Anyone know if there is a movie with the paramaters that do not show characters having a meal?

Johnny Dickshot wrote: I don't recall calling Crystal a fraud. Two, what he did is completely opposite of Nicholson in that he did what the director asked him to and Nicholson didn;t. There you have it: Billy Crystal > Jack Nicholson. Never thought I'd say it. Hmmm, sorry, guess I'm thinking of the prevailing thought again as most people (including Met fans) bash Crystal based on the hat in City Slickers, even after knowing why Crystal donned it as a "Thanks" to the Mets/Wilpons for their help with Comic Relief, and the fact that you don't like him anyway

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Is this the flick where Nicholson plays a Boston guy who wears a MFY cap? He's such a fucking frontrunning gloryhound ham he refused to wear the costume his character was offered. So Billy Crystal is a fake, phony, fraud (tm Bob Grant) for doning a Met cap in City Slickers and Nicholson is a piece of crap because he refused to wear a cap of his most hated rival? A bit hypocritical there JD. Can't take a person to task because they are giving a team props for helping them out and then blasting someone for not wearing the colors of a team because it conflicts with your rooting interests.

Yes I believe it is loosley based on the Bulgers

Saw The Departed last night. Great flick, Scorsese with another great film on the resume. Great turns by the cast. Jack was Jack and was really into it. Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio were tremendous as the main leads. Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen and Alec Baldwin were also great in their roles as well. I'd have to think about where it ranks among the greats of the genre, certaintly more weight culturally is given to New York/Chicago/Vegas stories but I can see it right in the top 20-15 "gangster" or "cop" films of all time. BTW, a friend of my dad's and a retired NYC cop did some stuff for the show Third Watch, and was brought onboard with this movie as both a small speaking role (that got cut though, hopefully restored with the DVD deleted scenes) and a consulting role behind the scenes.

The only thing I can figure is that the studio figured get it out when baseball is in everyone's mind Yeah, CLEARLY thats Memorial Day Weekend as well Probably since the story involves the World Series they wanted to tie it in, maybe Fox is planning something to tie it in if the MFY get that far. Like this time the hero has to find Jeter's lucky bat or something

Frayed Knot wrote: Wasn't it info on IMDB that "reported" that Piazza had a part as a high-school bully in some teen werewolf movie? Yup. Also somehow there are 2 Johnny Cashes on IMDB. I is The Man In Black and a II is a merger of a guy named Johnny Cash who did work on a video game and couple of tacked on TV apperances by the more famous Johnny Cash Heh, under further review it seems Cash II has been updated to reflect the fact that he is not the famous singer. Guess they do have editors checking these pages afterall! The listings on the 2nd Cash page was for a TV apperance with Kris Kristofferson and Jerry Lee Lewis and a documentary featuring two of Johnny's offspring, Rosanne and John Carter, the latter is still in production

Yeah I know I mucked up the Sandberg trade thanks to doing something off the cuff, but before Wikipedia brought to the World Wide Web the encylopedia that anyone can add information without any attribution or editing, IMDB was doing the same for the movie industry. While a good tool for whats out there and they do link up to "professional" reviews and databases, there are many so-called "facts," urban legends and speculations littered all over the site's many features. Thanks to the fact that users can post things without editing. This caught my eye today, for the movie about Vince Papale, the Eagles walkon back in the late 1970's, Invincible. Found on the Trivia page: A common misconception is that the film is missing a primary character, specifically Philadelphia Eagles veteran QB #7 Ron Jaworski. But Jaworski was still on the St. Louis Rams during this time frame. Jaworski was not traded to the Eagles until March of 1977. I'm going to suggest that A) Its not a common misconception if the movie has yet to be released (Friday 8/25) it should be, MIGHT BE a common misconception. Plus if the movie bombs, the misconception won't be so common afterall! and ESPN Football Anaylist Ron Jaworski would be explaining to everyone a) That he wants to know why he's not in the film or Why he told producers NOT to use his name and image in the film (the case with the living, you need their blessing), if the case was that Jaws was on the 1976 Eagles. Oh, and the Rams were not in St. Louis in 1976, they were in Los Angeles!