By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Most supergroups turn out to be overhyped duds, but "The Avengers" is nothing but hits.
Everyone's buzzing about the all-star team of do-gooders in "The Avengers," from Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man to Chris Evans' Captain America to Chris Hemsworth's god of thunder, Thor.
Billionaire genius Tony Stark had to learn to play well with others in "The Avengers" after two "Iron Man" films where he was the main attraction.
Billionaire genius Tony Stark had to learn to play well with others in "The Avengers" after two "Iron Man" films where he was the main attraction.
Iron Man, Thor and Black Widow _ or at least the actors that play them _ were in London Thursday as "Marvel Avengers Assemble" held its European premiere.
As superhero summers go, this one is truly super.
Taylor Swift wants children in the Pennsylvania city of Reading to hit the books - and she has made that easier by giving 6,000 volumes to the local library.
The superhero genre dominated much of the movie scene this summer, and while some of these films seemed more like life-size comic books than movies, some stood out from the pack.
"Thor" opens on a starry night in the New Mexico desert. Two scientists - Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) and Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgard) - and their assistant, Darcy (Kat Dennings), are out hunting for evidence of a rare cosmic phenomenon they think could provide a bridge to another dimension.
The box office expectations are — as the villain Loki (Tom Hiddleston) declares himself when he first appears — "burdened with glorious purpose."
Despite his comic-book roots, Loki himself has a Shakespearean dimension akin to such villains as Iago in "Othello" and Edmund in "King Lear," Hiddleston said.
