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Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has joined forces with Stan Lee's POW! Entertainment group to develop a franchise in which Starr will play an animated superhero version of himself. Starr's character will be an evil-battling, earth-saving, albeit reluctant superhero with a great sense of rhythm. This will be Starr's third major comic character persona following on from the American Broadcasting Corporation's 1965-67 cartoon series The Beatles and the animated 1968 feature Yellow Submarine. This time, however, Starr will voice his own character as he did when his cartoon self made a guest appearance on a 1991 episode of The Simpsons....

Following up on the lawsuit filed by Stan Lee in November of 2002, Marvel today announced that it had received a decision on the partial summary judgment motions made by Lee and Marvel in Lee’s litigation against Marvel. In his lawsuit, Lee claimed that Marvel owed him millions of dollars due to its “shameful scheme” in which Marvel reneged on its deal with Lee to pay him 10% of profits earned from Hollywood films based on Marvel characters. The deal is written into Lee’s employment agreement with Marvel ($1 million a year), and reads: “f) In addition, you shall be...

Ready to take your fandom to the next level? MTV has opened applications for a new reality show, the premise of which will involve a group of fans who have designed their own super hero characters. Here’s the rub though – the finalists will live together in a house as their hero, and compete against celebrity villains for the grand prize – having their character published in a comic book. According to the production company, a “Legendary Comic Book Creator” As the production company is being mum about further details, it’s unclear if this show is the previously announced teaming...

Judicial Watch first brought the lawsuit in 2001 on behalf of Mr. Paul, who spent nearly $2 million to produce in August 2000 a Hollywood tribute to honor President Clinton and to help raise funds for Hillary Clinton’s run for the Senate. Mr. Paul incurred these expenses as part of a $17 million business relationship he entered into with Bill Clinton to have the president work for Mr. Paul’s Internet companies, Stan Lee Media and Mondo English, after the president left the White House. Bill Clinton reneged on his deal with Mr. Paul, and none of Mr. Paul’s expenses was...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department wants to flip a former fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton to rat out her 2000 Senate campaign for allegedly violating election law, it was reported yesterday. FBI documents allege that dot-com entrepreneur Peter Paul - an ex-partner of "Spider-Man" creator Stan Lee - illegally pumped $366,000 of his own cash into a Hollywood bash for Clinton in 2000, but falsely claimed it was company money. Federal prosecutors hope Paul, a three-time felon facing stock fraud charges in New York, will squawk under oath about his claim that Clinton's campaign reported the party cost only $523,000, when...

<p>LEXINGTON, Ky. — U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell said yesterday that the Republican Party will go all-out to keep the 6th District congressional seat being given up by Rep. Ernie Fletcher, who was elected governor Tuesday.</p> <p>And in a related development, state Sen. Alice Forgy Kerr of Lexington has emerged as the favorite for the Republican nomination for the special election to fill the seat.</p>

While reporters usually pretend that Bill and Hillary Clinton's legal problems are behind them, Mrs. Clinton seems to know better. That is, at least judging by the way she's handling the latest lawsuit filed against her. Sen. Clinton's office spent a significant part of this week dodging media questions about Stan Lee Media co-founder Peter Paul, who claimed in court documents filed in Los Angeles last week that she and her husband accepted $2 million from him and reported only a tiny fraction to the Federal Election Commission. "Clinton's Senate staff did not respond to the Associated Press' repeated...

When Brave New Worlds Collide By Robert Wolf Progressives, Greens and other socialists may quarrel amongst themselves from time to time, but they are united in their reverence for a book by David Korten entitled, “When Corporations Rule the World”. A revised edition has recently reached the shelves. This book must be on Stan Lee’s nightstand. Its title is reminiscent of a science fiction novel; an unholy cross between “When Worlds Collide” and “Brave New World”. It depicts Libertarians and other free market advocates as quislings or ‘useful idiots’ in a capitalistic conspiracy to rule the world. It portrays them...

<p>October 3, 2003 -- The comics factory of legendary "Incredible Hulk" creator Stan Lee is getting dragged deeper into a federal probe that's worthy of any wacky comic-book plot.</p> <p>It's got bankruptcy, shady characters fleeing to Brazil, con men, check-kiting, White House influence-peddling and even G-men from different agencies jumping on their trail.</p>

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A former stripper is demanding an end to the new cable television show "Stripperella," an animated series featuring Pamela Anderson as the voice of a stripper who moonlights as a superhero. Janet Clover, 37, filed suit Monday against Anderson and comic book legend Stan Lee, who created "Stripperella" as well as "Spider-Man" and "The Hulk." Also named as defendants are Viacom TV Networks doing business as TNN. Clover claims she is Stripperella's "true creator," according to the lawsuit filed in Daytona Beach circuit court. Clover, an unemployed Palm Coast resident who identifies herself in the lawsuit...

<p>Let's talk about the upside first: The computer-generated Hulk is indeed very realistic and convincing. In fact, all the special effects are good, very subtle and artfully done. There's rarely a time when the computer side of this movie doesn't pay off.</p>

SPIDER-MAN, DOC, THE DISTRICT, and WE WERE SOLDIERS Are Also Among the Winners at 11th Annual MOVIEGUIDE(R) Faith & Values Awards Gala By Dan Wooding and Tom Snyder BEVERLY HILLS, CA (ANS) - “Good guys finish first and the cream rises to the top,” Dr. Ted Baehr, chairman of the Christian Film & Television Commission(tm) ministry, told a star-studded audience at the 11th Annual MOVIEGUIDE(R) Faith & Values Awards Gala and Report to the Entertainment Industry ceremony, held Tuesday evening March 18 at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel. This was certainly borne out when Pierce Brosnan took home two major...