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Style Me Pretty is featuring Diana+Chris' vintage-inspired wedding, which took place in one of my favorite venues in New York – the Metropolitan Building.
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Weather Journal: 'Landicane' Leaves One Last Warm Day
Another warm and humid day is in store for Greater New York on Thursday, courtesy of the "landicane" currently churning its way through Canada. High temperatures will hover a handful of degrees shy of record highs for the third day in a row.
The first of two major cold fronts originating from the record-setting storm system discussed here brought scattered showers on Wednesday. Even though the massive storm system has already peaked at an atmospheric pressure reading equivalent to a major hurricane at landfall, the effects of this week's storm were not nearly as severe because its much larger circulation covered nearly all of North America.
Perhaps "continentcane" would be a more fitting name than "landicane." Not sure which neologism is catchier.
At any rate, Thursday night's parting-gift from this storm will be a cold front that packs an even stronger punch for the region, knocking this week's delightfully warm temperatures back down to normal. Highs will drop to the 50s and lows will fall into the lower 40s over the weekend. Areas farther outside the concrete jungle could experience another frost/freeze event Friday night, if the cold fronts don't push away all the humid air first.
These two frontal passages will only bring temperatures back down to about where they should be this time of year. In fact, Wednesday was so warm in Central Park (high: 75, low: 65) that the temperature accomplished the rare feat of staying above the average high for a full 24 hours. Over that stretch the high clocked in at nearly 20 degrees above normal.
So even though this weekend will feel much colder and likely send you scrambling in the bottom of your closet for a sweater, in the end it's all relative.
Looking Back at the 'Landicane': By most accounts, the damage from this week's storm in Greater New York has been limited. Wind damage forced school closings in Buffalo, N.Y., and tornado watches made it as far east as southern New Jersey Wednesday night.
The middle of the country didn't get off so easy. On Tuesday alone, 32 tornado reports originated from nine states at last count. Over 220,000 customers in the Chicago area lost power. One tornado in Indiana was caught on tape by a security camera. The Washington Post has a good recap of the "landicane" by the numbers.
Your AccuWeather Thursday forecast roundup:
- WSJ Headquarters in Manhattan:
RealFeel High: 73
RealFeel Low: 47
Weather: one last warm day
- Astoria, Queens: 72/49
- Parkchester, Bronx: 72/57
- Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn: 73/47
- Clifton, Staten Island: 73/46
- Woodbury, N.Y.: 65/41
- Morristown, N.J.: 72/40
- Bethpage, LI: 69/48
- Southport, Conn.: 70/48
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Sarah Palin and Joe Biden Tussle (Briefly) Over Health Policy
There wasn't a lot said about health care in last night's vice presidential debate. But there was just enough to give each candidate the opportunity to slam the other ticket's health plan. The attacks were pretty misleading.
Joe Biden cited an estimate that 20 million people would lose their employer-sponsored health insurance under the McCain plan. But, as the Washington Post points out, an estimated 21 million people would be able to afford health insurance for the first time because the McCain plan, which shifts insurance tax credits from employer-sponsored insurance to individuals.
Several analyses of the McCain plan found that it's likely to lead to a decrease in the number of uninsured in the short term, but an increase in the number over the long term, the Post says. This Health Affairs study found that the number of uninsured would increase by five million over five years under McCain's plan.
Sarah Palin referred to Obama's "plan to mandate health care coverage and have [a] universal government-run program." As the AP points out,
Obama would only mandate health insurance for children; he wouldn't require adults to buy coverage. Nor has he proposed a "universal, government-run program." He would allow people to choose between buying private health insurance and buying insurance from a government-backed plan like the one that covers Congress.
The Obama plan would significantly increase the number of Americans with health insurance, but it could cost more than $100 billion a year.


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Chicago's Professor Ted Fujita Plays Tag with Tornadoes and Reaps a Whirlwind of Knowledge
The tornado chaser is T. (for Tetsuya) Theodore Fujita, 56, professor of meteorology at the University of Chicago. Later, aerial and ground surveys verified that the thunderstorm Fujita photographed on Feb. 23 spawned three twisters, including one that cut a 10-mile swath of devastation beneath his flight path. "It was the first time we have ever seen the top of a tornado cloud," says Fujita, still perking with excitement.
Ted Fujita ranks among a handful of experts on nature's most violent and least understood storm. He has advanced a theory that tornadoes are produced when a thundercloud "overbuilds." If the top collapses, it creates fearsome downward air currents that set off tornadoes. To test his ideas, Fujita has built a machine that can produce tiny laboratory twisters.
The knowledge he is gaining may save lives, Fujita says. "Many survivors report they had only a minute's warning to get to shelter. We want to increase the warning time." The professor acknowledges that his research dominates his life. "I love tornadoes," he says. "They have become a passion." While his flights are financed by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (at a cost of as much as $5,000 a day), Fujita claims that, if necessary, he would clean out his own bank account to continue his studies.
"It's like looking for the Loch Ness monster," says Fujita, who is fond of animal analogies and mixes them at random. "You may be touching a tiger. It's a calculated risk." His close friend Allen Pearson, chief tornado forecaster for the National Weather Service, worries that Fujita may one day wander too close to a killer storm. "Ted will be the last of the kamikaze if he does," Pearson jokes.
Born in Japan, the son of a teacher, Fujita chose meteorology as his specialty. On the basis of a paper he wrote on thunderstorms, he was invited to Chicago in 1953 as a researcher. He now shares a greenery-filled, two-story home near the university with his second wife, Sumiko (Susie).
"He could be a meteorological millionaire if he wished, acting as a consultant at $1,000 a day," says Pearson. Fujita shows little concern for getting rich. His science class of 200 undergraduates is one of the largest at the university. "When students are involved in excitement," says the professor, who keeps his class up-to-date on his tornado hunts, "they learn more." He is also helping redesign nuclear reactors to withstand tornado damage.
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Governor Beshear will sign Romeo's Law which increases the penalties for people found guilty of abusing animals.
The bill was named after a Pulaski County dog whose owner was caught on tape choking, beating, and slamming Romeo to the ground.
Governor Beshear will also sign a bill that will make leaving the scene of an accident a felony instead of a misdemeanor. It would also toughen punishments against those convicted of hit and runs.


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|Thursday 5.26.16
After Betterment's $100 million VC raise makes 25 newspapers, Wealthfront unveils 3.0 on blog and Twitter
|Tuesday 4.19.16
Betterment raises $100 million a year after a $60-million round, enabling it to step up efforts to win the HNW wallet
|Tuesday 3.29.16
The ironic reason robo-advisors aren't gorging on assets -- a determination to dictate bloodlessly to millennials
|Tuesday 3.15.16
Wealthfront takes on another Facebook vet -- a clue that going dark in Palo Alto doesn't mean going away
|Thursday 12.3.15
Two ways of reading Wealthfront's inscrutable hire of a power CFO -- one it may not really need anytime soon
|Wednesday 8.19.15
Wealthfront CEO flames Betterment's 'outrageous' fees and 'abhorrent' ways; Betterment strikes back labeling the screed a Trumped-up PR play
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Why Wall Street's DOL killer threat -- that 'millions' of IRA investors will go unadvised under new rules -- is hogwash
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After Schwab and Betterment catch up to Wealthfront's AUM, the Palo Alto robo pioneer makes a stunning hire
|Friday 6.5.15
FutureAdvisor responds to Schwab's market entry with a truly free offer and big backing from Fidelity and TD Ameritrade
|Tuesday 5.5.15
Schwab's robo launch stimulates sign-ups at Betterment and Wealthfront -- and itself
|Wednesday 4.8.15
Adam Nash makes direct 'CEO-to-CEO' plea to Schwab to rethink its robo
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Wealthfront throws engineering at its large-account 'problem'
|Monday 2.23.15
Schwab tells the SEC its robo-advisor has a 30 basis-point fee and big-time cash allocations held by Schwab Bank
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Has indexing become too popular?
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What exactly are robo-advisors, why did they steal the 2014 show and what will a 2015 repeat take?
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Wealthfront's high-net-worth cat leaps out of the bag -- keeping it one robo 'pivot' ahead of Schwab
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Wealthfront responds with force to Schwab CEO's robo announcement
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After bagging Google, Wealthfront hires a Facebook web-traffic pied piper to manage mega-prospects knocking at the door
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Wealthfront's advice is now an employee benefit for Google employees' non-401(k) savings
|Tuesday 9.23.14
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What's up with Schwab getting into the robo-style online advice business and is Windhaven the linchpin?
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How Vanguard Group's robo-countering effort got to $1.3 billion of AUM so easily and why its future seems bright
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Why I find the term 'robo-advisor' objectionable and unhelpful
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The 10 biggest threats to the RIA business heading into 2014
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Davis Janowski gets scooped up by Wealthfront
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Ric Edelman is looking to add a $1-billion RIA elephant even as he unveils an online consumer strategy aimed at the chipmunks
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BrightScope debate has familiar feel of an industry being dragged kicking and screaming into the new world
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Investing In the Digital Age: How RIAs could start a free-data revolution and why it won't bankrupt the vendors
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Investing in the Digital Age: Why real-time data is a must-have for RIAs and long-term investors
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Ideas born in the advisory world that flew far in 2010
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Darling is the Telugu movie and its audio songs has been released on 8th April 2010 at Shilpakala Vedika in Hyderabad. The movie is produced by BVNS Prasad on Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra India Pvt Ltd banner. The movie director is A. Karunakaran (Tholiprema fame) and the music composer of the movie is G V Prakash Kumar, a new young music director of Telugu film industry. The movie is planned to release in April 2010.
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Maranthen Mannithen Review
Maranthen Mannithen is based on a novel named 'Godavari Kathalu', written by BVS Rama Rao. It is the Tamil version of Telugu hit film Gundello Godari. The film stars Aadhi, Lakshmi Manchu, Tapasee Pannu and Sundeep Kishan in the lead roles.
Last month, we had seen Kadal, where the story is set in the backdrop of the sea. Now with Maranthen Mannithen, we are getting into a hamlet on the coast of a river. The common element in these movies is - Lakshmi Manchu. The actress, who had done a miniature role, will be showcasing her talent in full-fledged role in this film.
The crux of the story is the two angles of love shown in the form of Lakshmi Manchu and Tapasee Pannu. While the former's love is idealistic and true in sense, the latter's feeling is entirely different as she tries to have fun and be lustrous. Precisely, there is no room for commitment.
Aadhi and Lakshmi Manchu ties the knot without knowing about each other. Their initial moments of uncertainty and uncomfortable feelings were driven away by flash floods. They float and fight for survival during which they tell each other about their past love on a floating house.
Aadhi plays the role of a hard working fisherman, who dreams of owning a fishing boat someday. Whereas Lakshmi Manchu, the only daughter of a widow, wants to marry her cousin played by Sundeep Kishan, who is crazy about betting on fighter cocks. There is also Sarala (Tapasee), the daughter of a rich landlord and Aadhi's boat owner. The characters played by Lakshmi Manchu and Sundeep Kishan are grown up together and the former loves the latter selflessly. The remaining story is all about how the married couple battle the fury of nature and how their relationship grows up by leaps and bounds in a matter of a few hours. Continue reading the story on the slideshow...


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In this fourth title in the Ellie Foreman mystery series, the Chicago documentary filmmaker finds herself in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Returning from a video shoot at the Lodge, a newly renovated, upscale resort, Ellie befriends a woman who claims her ride abandoned her at a highway rest stop. But Ellie's kindness is brutally cut short when a pickup truck pulls up, the rear window opens, and the woman is shot dead.
Even with her history of sleuthing, Ellie is not eager to get involved. Then the victims' family arrives and begs for information. When the second shooting occurs, Ellie decides to poke around on her own. She is soon drawn into the history of a wealthy and prominent family, deeply rooted in a magnificent mansion on the shores of the lake, and surrounded by an elaborate web of lies, murder, and family secrets that have plagued both them and the town for years - secrets that now place Ellie in the crosshairs of a killer.
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Italy Cites Human Rights in Row Over Bail-Ins
ROME—The Bank of Italy has upped the rhetoric in the Europe-wide debate concerning "bail ins" of bank bondholders.
It said this week that any effort by the European Union to force subordinated bondholders to take losses or convert their holdings to prop up distressed banks may trigger a landmark human-rights case.
"A forced conversion or writedown of debt instruments would have to respect the rights of the creditors and shareholders in accordance with the Charter of Fundamental Rights so the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights," the Bank said.
The claim, made in the Bank of Italy's Financial Stability Report, is one of the strongest objections yet to the new rules on state aid to banks agreed by the European Commission over the summer.
Under the rules, if a bank determined to have a capital shortfall has to raise capital, and if it can't do so on its own, burden sharing ensures, meaning that subordinated debt may be converted to equity as a condition for the bank to tap state aid.
While the conditions of such bonds generally make clear that they can be converted into equity if a bank actually does fail, they generally don't take account of regulatory actions such as stress tests, which calculate the strength of a bank in the event of a hypothetical scenario. At present, European authorities envisage forcibly applying the bail-in laws to banks which fail the stress test at the end of the European Central Bank's ongoing "Comprehensive Assessment" of banks before it assumes responsibility for supervising them.
Conversion of bonds into equity, not to mention outright cancellation, would have to comply with the Charter, and that means "there must be a real and immediate threat to financial stability, and not a merely hypothetical scenario, such as that produced by a stress test," the central bank said.
Italy's central bank, where European Central Bank President Mario Draghi was once governor, is not at all enthusiastic. It says burden sharing "may be commendable in principle," but that capital shortfalls arising from a stress test or an asset quality review are just notional and don't reflect actual balance sheets.
Italy's interests are clear: it wants to avoid stifling the recovery and growth of the subordinated-debt market at a delicate time for wholesale financial markets.
That's doubly the case given that, uniquely in Europe, Italian households are major owners of banks' subordinated bonds, which can be counted as regulatory capital. Households own €35 billion ($46.9 billion) of such securities, more than half of the amount issued by banks that will be subject to the ECB's forthcoming asset quality review, according to the Bank of Italy. That means any bail-in would go well beyond institutional investors and ricochet through the euro-zone's third-largest economy, potentially crushing public confidence in its banks, which provide 90% of the financing to companies.
The heavy presence of Italian retail investors in subordinated bank bonds makes the EU's rules "perplexing" and in need of modification, according to ABI, the Italian Banking Association. "Prevention is better than such medicine," said ABI President Antonio Patuelli.
Perhaps the fact that this issue is now being discussed in terms of human rights underscores how complex the completion of Europe's banking union could be.
Just to be clear on how strongly it feels on the matter, the Bank of Italy cited Article 17 of the EU's rights charter: "Everyone has the right to own, use, dispose of and bequeath his or her lawfully acquired possessions."
At any rate, the Bank of Italy expects minimal capital shortfalls to be found at the lenders on its turf, so the world may be spared an interesting examination of the nature of private property.
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The story was inspired by actual events Ford experienced while growing up in Morehouse in the 1950s, including an auto accident that killed his best friend.
"I had always wanted to write about it, but never really had the time," said Ford who has lived in the Dexter area for the last 35 years.
Finding the time in 1990, Ford began writing the novel and seven years later he had over 1,200 hand-written pages, which he later edited down to 450 pages. "It became my 'Gone With the Wind'," the author laughed.
While actual events did lead to the book, Ford is quick to point out that it is not an autobiography of his life and he is not the main character.
"I can't write just straight fiction, it has to have some truth to it for me," said Ford. "But I feel only a fool or a person with a large ego writes about himself, unless he is a war hero or president."
The result was a novel set in a small southeast Missouri town in the 1950s named Frenchman's Spring. While the story has plenty of car races it is not just a guy story.
"Anyone who is into cars wants to have this book but it is the romance that brings the wives in," Ford said. "They think it is a rip your heart out and put it back in love story. It's actually two books in one."
While writing the book was a challenge, getting the book into people's hands was an even bigger challenge. Ford decided to go with self-publishing, feeling he could make more per book and have total control of his novel.
The author made many trips to Cape Girardeau as the book was being edited and also spent many miles in his car making trips to Memphis and Texas for paper and book binding. Finally the book was printed and was into reader's hands.
"The books are a hot seller," Ford said. "People say that it is a modern day 'Romeo and Juliet' and in a way they are right."
Now, Ford is ready for his next challenge; getting the novel made into a movie.
"I'm interested in screenplays, not books," Ford said. "You can get $1.5 to 2 million for a screenplay if they are good."
In 1997 he spoke with vice presidents from 20th Century Fox and New Line Cinema who told Ford to publish the book and get back to them. By the time he got the book published and tried to contact them in the summer of 2002 they had already moved on. He has since had his book looked at by several big studios including Dreamworks and Imagine and was on the verge of selling the movie script when he was struck by ill health earlier this year.
Only being able to afford to print a few thousand copies originally, Ford is now trying to find financing to promote and produce more copies of his book. After his first printing he had to refuse sales in order to keep copies for movie studios and others who could help his idea make it to Hollywood. However, getting the money to make more copies hasn't been easy.
"What I have found is I am a conservative in the world of liberal arts," Ford said. "In liberal arts it is harder to borrow money to finance books or music than it is for cars or real estate.
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In the meantime, Ford will continue to write. He is planning at least one sequel to "Street Heart," as well as another novel all the while trying to get his first work made into a movie.
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A.J. Wright: chip off MarMaxx block
September 16, 2002-- Home Textiles Today,
BLOOMFIELD, NJ A.J. Wright, the smaller, downscale strip mall entry of the TJX Cos., is positioning itself as the "Mini-Me" of the MarMaxx chains, portending a larger rollout of the format.
Less than a month after debuting here as an unknown name to consumers in an untested market, consumer traffic appeared comfortably brisk to moderately heavy during several visits to the store. TJX does not release operating financials for its divisions; however, the company has stated that same-store sales grew 18 percent to 19 percent last year, with total sales increasing 89 percent.
A.J. Wright draws heavily on the merchandising and marketing styles of TJMaxx and Marshalls.
The 59-store chain, which covers scattered areas across the northeast quadrant of the United States — as far west as Chicago, as far South as Richmond, VA — expects to be operating about 75 stores by fiscal yearend. The company anticipates opening 40 to 45 stores annually beginning next year and foresees the potential for a 1,000-unit chain. At least seven additional stores — in Connecticut, New York, Michigan and Virginia — are scheduled to open during the remainder of September and early October.
This unit, at about 24,000 square feet, is slightly smaller than the chain's typical 26,000-square-feet prototype. It's all alone in this SMSA; the nearest stores are in Westchester County, NY, and Mercer County, NJ.
Domestics receives about half of the home section's 2,400 square feet located along the back wall — in substantially the same position found in MarMaxx stores.
Located in a new neighborhood strip center anchored by a Super Stop & Shop, it appears to fall precisely within the company's demographic target: moderate-income urban customers in underserved markets — in this case, a suburb bordering Newark, NJ. Its location suggested a primary trading area of about two miles or less. Pre-opening advertising consisted of local direct mail combined with targeted newsprint.
The stores promote savings at 20 percent to 70 percent off discount store and budget department store prices, contrasting with Marshalls or TJMaxx, which offer 20 percent to 60 percent savings from department and specialty store buys.
A.J. Wright uses MarMaxx's opportunistically driven buying strategies: a mix of overstocks, irregulars and closeouts, some of which can easily be traced to their original retail roots because of price or packaging labels:
A full/queen fleece blanket from Stevens' Chatham division bearing an Ames sku label with a $34.99 price point was being offered at $9.99.
A Home Trends queen bed-in-a-bag from Wal-Mart. It offered an eight-piece set with 200-count sheeting in a 50/50 cotton/poly blend. It showed a $39.99 price with a "compare at" $70.00 challenge.
A New Traditions twin bed-in-a-bag from Sears. Also priced at $39.99, it featured a 220-count sheet set with a corded reversible comforter.
A WestPoint Stevens full-size bed-in-a-bag from Kmart with the same $39.99 price point.
A Martex Platinum washcloth from Kohl's at a $1.49 price point.
Varying assortments in varying depths — mostly irregulars — could also be found under such well-known labels as Royal Velvet, Dan River, Ralph Lauren and Alexander Julian, which joined such staples as Springmaid and Wamsutta.
Yet, for as much as A.J. Wright has borrowed from the MarMaxx stores, it's apparently offered at least one merchandising tack to its big sisters. "Special buy" bins — often containing goods completely unrelated to the format — have begun appearing on at least some front ends of Marshalls stores.
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The bun, the twist and the knot all became popular go-to hair styles last season and although there have been a few tweaks made throughout the season, these looks have stuck around. The biggest trend for buns, twists and knots is now a more perfected look. We saw buns get bigger and messier throughout the season but now the look is very neat. A strong center part or dramatic side part are very popular with this refined look.
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Global Deal: Diageo Extends Foothold in Brazil
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London – Diageo PLC said Monday it has bought one of Brazil's biggest producers of cachaca, the country's best-selling spirit, as part of the U.K. drink maker's continued expansion into the lucrative Latin American market.
Diageo will pay GBP300 million to buy Agroindustrial Limitada's Ypioca brand, giving it a firmer foothold in Brazil even as it continues to eye a much bigger target in nearby Mexico — tequila maker Jose Cuervo.
"The acquisition of Ypioca gives us the leading premium brand in the largest local spirits category," said Chief Executive Paul Walsh.
Cachaca, a liquor derived from sugar cane, is a key ingredient in Brazil's popular Caipirinha cocktail and is the best-selling spirit in the GBP2.9 billion-a-year Brazilian alcoholic drinks market.
Diageo, maker of Johnnie Walker whisky, Guinness beer and Smirnoff vodka, is enjoying booming sales in Latin America as well as other rapidly-growing markets in Africa, Asia-Pacific and Eastern Europe as rising incomes in those countries create an aspirational middle class with cash to spare.
European markets, in contrast, have stagnated amid an ongoing debt crisis as hard-pressed consumers spend less or downgrade to cheaper, low-margin alcohol brands.
Diageo still derives most of its revenue from mature markets in Europe and North America, but emerging economies account for around 40% of total business, a figure the firm wants to raise to 50% by 2015.
The Latin America and Caribbean region was Diageo's fastest growing in the nine months to March 31, with sales surging 18%. Diageo's Randy Millian, president of the region, said the Ypioca acquisition will help tap into the growing demand for premium brands across Brazil.
"We are seeing the middle class grow in Brazil in both number and income," Mr. Millian said. "The acquisition of Ypioca is a step change for us as it more than doubles our size in Brazil and gives us a platform to further penetrate the middle class by reaching a larger and wider outlet universe."
Trevor Stirling, an analyst at Bernstein Research, is less convinced a cachaca deal is the best stepping stone for Diageo to gain a significant market share in Brazil . "For most Brazilians, beer is the trade-up from mainstream cachaca, not premium cachaca," he said.
"It's very important for Diageo to ensure that the challenges of defending a substantial base in mainstream cachaca doesn't act as a distraction from the big long-term prize in Brazil, which we view as driving the growth of premium international spirits, especially Scotch," Mr. Stirling said.
Recent research by Goldman Sachs predicts Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Russia, Mexico and Turkey will represent 46% of global gross domestic product by 2050, another reason why Diageo has set its sights on building a presence in these countries. That strategy is also behind its pursuit of a controlling stake in Mexico's Jose Cuervo, a deal worth around GBP2 billion.
The U.K. firm has long coveted Cuervo, the world's biggest tequila maker by volume. With its distribution agreement with family-owned tequila firm due to expire next year, Diageo is hoping to seal a controlling stake as a condition of renewal. Analysts expect a resolution in the next few months.
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The Human Rights Commission has dropped allegations of unfair labour practices and poor working conditions against the Eastern Cape's DA leader.
The Human Rights Commission has dropped allegations of unfair labour practices and poor working conditions against the Eastern Cape's DA leader.
Jacob Zuma's call for a national cleansing ceremony should include cleansing the "roads of death", says the South African National Civic Organisation.
The Mpumalanga government has awarded an R11-million abattoir contract to a company accused of having links to organised crime.
A joint petition against the planned Gauteng highway tolling system will be sent to Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele within 14 days.
Neither intimidation tactics nor the influence of party heavyweights have swayed a fiery independent seen as a threat to an ANC stronghold in Knysna.
Changes to ward councillor lists are a growing headache for the ANC in the Western Cape.
Cosatu president Sidumo Dlamini re-affirms the organisations commitment to the alliance. Cosatu, ANC, SACP and SANCO.
The ANC must remain the political centre of the ruling alliance, party secretary general and SACP chairperson Gwede Mantashe said on Thursday.
Alliance partners and the media must remember the importance of Sanco, the organisation's deputy president, Lemias Mashile, said on Wednesday.
Sanco threatened on Monday to mobilise Vodacom subscribers in protest against the listing of the cellphone giant at the JSE.
The Western Cape branch of Sanco and the South African Cape Corps military union on Wednesday pledged support for Cope in the April elections.
ANC MP Rose Sonto, also the head of the South African National Civic Organisation in the Western Cape, this week repeated unsubstantiated allegations that foreigners are buying government-subsidised houses and forcing South Africans to live in shacks.
African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma has received support from alliance partners to run for presidential elections, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said on Sunday. "We will not only be accompanying him to court but to the Union Buildings as the next president of South Africa," he said, announcing the outcome of an alliance.
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa cannot ignore Eskom's request for a 53% tariff increase, a business research and consulting firm said on Thursday. "If the country expects the electricity utility to resolve the current capacity crisis, it must be given the resources to do so," said Frost & Sullivan.
Matatiele residents were set to march through Pietermaritzburg on Thursday to the KwaZulu-Natal legislature in protest over their incorporation into the Eastern Cape. Matatiele-Maluti Mass Action Organising Committee chairperson Mandla Galo said that at least 45 minibus taxis had transported residents to Pietermaritzburg.
African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma on Friday called for a closure of the "chapter of tension and mistrust" between the ruling party and its alliance partners. The relationship between the ANC and its alliance partners had become somewhat strained under the previous leadership of national President Thabo Mbeki.
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Jacob Zuma is the new president of the African National Congress. The announcement was greeted by an outpouring of joy and ecstatic cheering by ANC delegates at the party's conference in Polokwane shortly before 9pm on Tuesday. Thabo Mbeki received 1 505 votes and Zuma received 2 329.
The African National Congress (ANC) on Thursday called on its members to "ignore the insulting decision" taken by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) to make recommendations for the election of the ruling party's national leadership.
The growing number of violent incidents in schools stems from problems within society and parents being too lenient, the Gauteng African National Congress's education sub-committee said on Wednesday. "We need good role models in society to be able to influence children," said sub-committee chairperson Amon Msane.


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Spider-Man 2
|Spider-Man 2
Theatrical release poster
|Directed by
|Sam Raimi
|Produced by
|Screenplay by
|Alvin Sargent
|Story by
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|The Amazing Spider-Man
by Stan Lee
Steve Ditko
|Music by
|Danny Elfman
|Bill Pope
|Edited by
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|United States
|$200 million[2]
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Spider-Man 2 is a 2004 American superhero film directed by Sam Raimi and written by Alvin Sargent from a story by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, and Michael Chabon. The sequel to the 2002 film Spider-Man, it is the second film in Raimi's Spider-Man film franchise based on the fictional Marvel Comics character of the same name. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and James Franco reprise their respective roles as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Mary Jane Watson, and Harry Osborn.
Set two years after the events of Spider-Man, the film finds Peter Parker struggling to manage both his personal life and his duties as Spider-Man, while Dr. Otto Octavius (Doctor Octopus) becomes a diabolical villain after a failed experiment kills his wife and leaves him neurologically fused to mechanical tentacles. Spider-Man must stop him from successfully recreating the experiment, which threatens to annihilate the city.
Spider-Man 2 was released in both conventional and IMAX theaters on June 30, 2004. It grossed $783.8 million worldwide and won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. It also received five awards at the Saturn Awards ceremony including Best Fantasy Film and Best Director for Raimi. The film's success led to the release of Spider-Man 3 in 2007.
Peter Parker struggles to balance his crime-fighting duties as Spider-Man with the demands of his normal life. Estranged from both love interest Mary Jane Watson and best friend Harry Osborn, Peter additionally discovers his Aunt May is facing foreclosure.
Harry, now head of Oscorp's research division, sponsors the brilliant nuclear scientist Otto Octavius' fusion power project. While handling the equipment, Octavius wears a harness of powerful robotic tentacle arms with artificial intelligence. In a demonstration, a power spike causes the fusion reactor to destabilize. Octavius refuses to shut down the reactor, which goes critical, killing his wife, and damaging his robotic arms; in the process, the inhibitor chip controlling the arms is rendered useless. Spider-Man arrives, and shuts down the experiment, destroying it in a massive explosion before it can do any further damage.
At a hospital, doctors prepare to surgically remove Octavius's harness. However, after the inhibitor chip is destroyed, the arms have developed sentience. They spring to life, and attack the medical crew, killing most of them. Upon regaining consciousness and seeing the carnage, Octavius escapes and hides at a harbor. Becoming increasingly influenced by the arms' AI, Octavius robs a bank to fund another experiment. When Spider-Man is attempting to save Aunt May, Octavius is upset because he stuck his webs in his business once again. The Daily Bugle subsequently dubs him Doctor Octopus.
Mary Jane becomes engaged to astronaut John Jameson, son of Bugle chief J. Jonah Jameson. Peter suffers an emotional breakdown, and temporarily loses his powers. He abandons his Spider-Man identity, returns to his normal life, and tries to reconcile with Mary Jane. A garbageman brings Spider-Man's costume to J. Jonah Jameson, who takes credit for Spider-Man's disappearance. Peter tells Aunt May that his Uncle Ben's death some time ago was his fault. May forgives him, but the rise in New York City crime rate worries Peter.
Octavius needs tritium to fuel his reactor, and goes to Harry to demand it. Harry agrees in exchange for Spider-Man's life. He tells Octavius to seek Peter, who is supposedly good friends with Spider-Man. Octavius locates Peter, tells him to find Spider-Man, and captures Mary Jane. Peter's powers are restored, and he steals back his costume from the Bugle, and goes after Octavius.
As Spider-Man battles Octavius, they fall onto a rapid transit R train. Octavius sabotages the controls and jumps off, and Spider-Man struggles to stop the train before the track ends. When he faints from exhaustion, the passengers carry him into one of the cars. He comes to and realizes his mask is off, but the passengers promise not to reveal his identity. Octavius returns, easily subdues Spider-Man, and delivers him to Harry.
After giving Octavius the Tritium, Harry prepares to kill Spider-Man, only to be shocked to see Peter under the mask. Saying greater things are at stake, he convinces Harry to reveal Octavius's location. Spider-Man arrives at the doctor's waterfront laboratory, and tries to rescue Mary Jane discreetly. One of Octavius's tentacles senses him, and they fight. Spider-Man ultimately subdues Octavius, reveals his identity, and persuades Octavius to let go of his dream for the greater good. Octavius finally commands the tentacles to obey him, and drowns the fusion reactor, along with himself, in the Hudson River. Mary Jane discovers Spider-Man's true identity and feelings, as well as why they cannot be together. Spider-Man returns Mary Jane to John, and leaves.
Harry is visited by a vision of his father, pleading for Harry to avenge his death. Refusing to hurt Peter, Harry shatters the mirror, unintentionally revealing a secret room containing the Green Goblin's equipment. On her wedding day, Mary Jane abandons John at the altar, and runs to Peter's apartment. After they kiss, they hear police sirens, and Mary Jane encourages him to respond as Spider-Man.
- A superhero, a brilliant Columbia University physics student and photographer for the Daily Bugle. Juggling these separate lives means he briefly gives up his responsibilities as a superhero in a moment of adversity. When Maguire signed on to portray Spider-Man in 2000, he was given a three-film contract.[3] While filming Seabiscuit in late 2002, Maguire suffered injuries to his back and Sony was faced with the possibility of recasting their lead.[4] Negotiations arose to replace Maguire with Jake Gyllenhaal, who at the time was dating Kirsten Dunst, who portrayed Mary Jane Watson. However, Maguire recovered and was able to reprise his role, with a salary of $17 million.[5] Maguire and Gyllenhaal would later play brothers in the 2009 film Brothers.
- A friend Peter Parker has loved since he was a child, yet he gave up the chance of being with her due to his obligations as a superhero.
- Oscorp's leader and Norman Osborn's son who resents Spider-Man for his father's death.
- A scientist and Peter's role model who goes insane after his failure to create a self-sustaining fusion reaction. Octavius is bonded with his handling equipment, four artificially intelligent mechanical tentacles. Molina was cast as Octavius in February 2003 and immediately began physical training for the role.[6] Raimi had been impressed by his performance in Frida and also felt he had the physicality.[7] Molina only briefly discussed the role and was not aware that he was a strong contender,[8] and was excited, being a big fan of Marvel Comics.[9] Although he wasn't familiar with Doc Ock, Molina found one element of the comics that he wanted to maintain, and that was the character's cruel, sardonic sense of humor.[10]
- Ben Parker's widow and Peter's aunt.
- The miserly manager and editor-in-chief of the Daily Bugle who carries a personal vendetta against Spider-Man, whom he considers a criminal and does not want to accept him as the city's hero.
- Donna Murphy as Rosalie Octavius
- Otto Octavius's wife and assistant who died following the failed attempt to introduce her husband's experiment.
- J. Jonah Jameson's son, Mary Jane's fiancé, astronaut and a national hero.
- One of Peter's college physics professors. He is a colleague of Octavius.
- Harry Osborn's deceased father who appears as a hallucination. Dafoe came up with the idea during promotion for Spider-Man, which he compared to King Hamlet haunting his son to avenge him.[11]
- Mageina Tovah as Ursula Ditkovich
- The daughter of the landlord of Peter's apartment.
As with the previous film, Bruce Campbell has a cameo appearance, this time as an usher in the doors of MJ's show. Years later, Jeffrey Henderson who worked on the storyboards for the cancelled Spider-Man 4 movie, released information regarding which villains would appear within the movie. One of those included Bruce Campbell's character's progression into Quentin Beck / Mysterio.[12][13] Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee portrays a man on the street who saves a woman from falling debris during a battle between Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus. Scott Spiegel portrays a man who attempts to eat some pizza Spider-Man is delivering, only to have it webbed from his hands. Joel McHale portrays a bank teller. Hal Sparks portrays an elevator passenger who has a conversation with Spider-Man. Donnell Rawlings portrays the New Yorker who exclaims that Spider-Man "stole that guy's pizzas" and Emily Deschanel portrays a receptionist. Elizabeth Banks portrays once again Betty Brant, one of the Bugle staff and J. Jonah Jameson's secretary. Daniel Dae Kim plays an assistant of Doctor Octavius working in his laboratory. Aasif Mandvi portrays Mr. Aziz, the owner of a local pizza store. Joey Diaz portrays a similar passenger. Vanessa Ferlito portrays one of Mary Jane's co-stars. Joy Bryant appears as a spectator that witnesses Spider-Man in action. John Landis plays one of the doctors who operates on Doctor Octopus. Phil LaMarr portrays a train passenger who is most easily seen to the left of Spider-Man (the viewer's right) while the hero uses webbing to slow the train down. Greg Edelman portrays Dr. Davis, the doctor at the University, that Peter Parker sees to talk about the loss of his superpowers.
Immediately after finishing Spider-Man, director Sam Raimi with help from James Keltie segued into directing a sequel.[8] In April 2002, Sony hired Alfred Gough and Miles Millar to write a script with Doctor Octopus, the Lizard and Black Cat as villains.[4] On May 8, 2002, following Spider-Man's record breaking $115 million opening weekend, Sony Pictures announced a sequel for 2004.[14] Entitled The Amazing Spider-Man, after the character's main comic book title,[15] the film was given a budget of $200 million[16] and aimed for a release date of May 7, 2004. The following month, David Koepp was added to co-write with Gough and Millar.[4]
In September 2002, Michael Chabon was hired to rewrite.[4] His draft had a younger Doc Ock, who becomes infatuated with Mary Jane. His mechanical limbs use endorphins to counteract the pain of being attached to his body, which he enjoys. When he injures two muggers on a date, this horrifies Mary Jane and in the resulting battle with Spider-Man his tentacles are fused together, and the fusion begins to kill him. In the script, Octavius is the creator of the genetically-altered spider from the first film, and gives Peter an antidote to remove his powers: this means when Octavius is dying with his tentacles, he wants to extract Spider-Man's spine to save himself. This leads to the alliance with Harry in the final film. Beforehand, Harry and the Daily Bugle put a $10 million price on Spider-Man's head, causing the city's citizens to turn against him.[17] Producer Avi Arad rejected the love triangle angle on Ock, and found Harry putting a price on Spider-Man's head unsubtle.[8]
Raimi sifted through the previous drafts by Gough, Millar, Koepp and Chabon, picking what he liked with screenwriter Alvin Sargent.[18] He felt that thematically the film had to explore Peter's conflict with his personal wants against his responsibility, exploring the positive and negatives of his chosen path, and how he ultimately decides that he can be happy as a heroic figure.[8] Raimi stated the story was partly influenced by Superman II, which also explored the titular hero giving up his responsibilities.[19] The story is mainly taken from The Amazing Spider-Man No. 50, "Spider-Man No More!" It was decided that Doc Ock would be kept as the villain, as he was both a visually interesting villain who was a physical match for Spider-Man, and a sympathetic figure with humanity.[8] Raimi changed much of the character's backstory, however, adding the idea of Otto Octavius being a hero of Peter, and how their conflict was about trying to rescue him from his demons rather than kill him.[15]
Spider-Man 2 was shot on over one hundred sets and locations, beginning with a pre-shoot on the Loop in Chicago during two days in November 2002. The crew bought a carriage, placing sixteen cameras for background shots of Spider-Man and Doc Ock's train fight.[8] Principal photography began on April 12, 2003 in New York City. The crew moved on May 13 to Los Angeles,[4] shooting on ten major sets created by production designer Neil Spisak. After the scare surrounding his back pains, Tobey Maguire relished performing many of his stunts, even creating a joke of it with Raimi, creating the line "My back, my back" as Spider-Man tries to regain his powers.[18] Even Rosemary Harris took a turn, putting her stunt double out of work. In contrast, Alfred Molina joked that the stunt team would "trick" him into performing a stunt time and again.[8]
Filming was put on hiatus for eight weeks, in order to build Doc Ock's pier lair. It had been Spisak's idea to use a collapsed pier as Ock's lair, reflecting an exploded version of the previous lab and representing how Octavius' life had collapsed and grown more monstrous,[8] evoking the cinema of Fritz Lang and the film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.[20] Filming then resumed on that set, having taken fifteen weeks to build, occupying Sony's Stage 30. It was 60 feet (18 m) by 120 feet (37 m) long, and 40 feet (12 m) high, and a quarter-scale miniature was also built for the finale as it collapses.[8] Filming was still going after Christmas 2003.[21]
A camera system called the Spydercam was used to allow filmmakers to express more of Spider-Man's world view, at times dropping fifty stories and with shot lengths of just over 2,400 feet (730 m) in New York or 3,200 feet (980 m) in Los Angeles. For some shots the camera would shoot at six frames per second for a faster playback increasing the sense of speed. Shots using the Spydercam were pre-planned in digital versions of cities, and the camera's movement was controlled with motion control, making it highly cost-effective. The camera system was only used in the previous film for the final shot.[8]
Although roughly the same, costume designer James Acheson made numerous subtle changes to Spider-Man's costume. The colors were made richer and bolder, the spider emblem was given more elegant lines and enlarged, the eye-lenses were somewhat smaller, and the muscle suit underneath was made into pieces, to give a better sense of movement. The helmet Maguire wore under his mask was also improved, with better movement for the false jaw and magnetic eye pieces, which were easier to remove.[8]
To create Doctor Octopus' mechanical tentacles, Edge FX was hired to create a corset, a metal and rubber girdle, a rubber spine and four foam rubber tentacles which were 8 feet (2.4 m) long, which altogether weighed 100 pounds (45 kg). The claws of each tentacle, which were dubbed "death flowers", were controlled by a single puppeteer in a chair, to control every available form on the claw. Each tentacle was controlled by four people, who rehearsed every scene with Molina to give a natural sense of movement as if the tentacles were moving due to Octavius' muscle movement.[22] On-set, Molina christened his co-stars "Larry", "Harry", "Moe" and "Flo", with "Flo" being the top-right tentacle.[23]
Edge FX was only hired to do scenes where Octavius carries his tentacles. CGI was used for when the tentacles carry Octavius: a 20 ft (6.1 m) high rig held Molina to glide through his surroundings, with CG tentacles added later.[22] The CG versions were scanned straight from the practical ones.[8] However, using the practical versions was always preferred to save money,[22] and each scene was always filmed first with Edge FX's creations to see if CGI was truly necessary. Completing the illusion, the sound designers chose not to use servo sound effects, feeling it would rob the tentacles of the sense that they were part of Octavius' body, and instead used motorcycle chains and piano wires.[8]
Home media[edit]
The film was initially released on DVD as a two-disc special edition on November 30, 2004. It was available in both anamorphic widescreen and Pan-and-Scan "fullscreen", as well as a Superbit edition and in a box-set with the first film. There was also a collector's edition including a reprint of The Amazing Spider-Man #50.[24]
An extended cut of the film, with eight minutes of new footage, was released as Spider-Man 2.1 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on April 17, 2007 and on October 30, 2007. In addition to the new cut, the DVD also included new special features not on the original release, as well as a sneak preview of Spider-Man 3.[25]
The film was released on Blu-ray in October 2007 as a part of the Spider-Man: The High Definition Trilogy box set. It was also released separately on Blu-ray in November 2010 as well as the previous film as part of Sony's Blu-ray Essentials Collection including both the theatrical release and the 2.1 extended cut.[26] The Spider-Man series was re-released on Blu-ray with a different audio transfer on June 12, 2012.[27]
Box office[edit]
Spider-Man 2 opened in the United States on June 30, 2004 and grossed $40.4 million in its first day; this broke the first film's opening day record of $39.4 million[28] until it was surpassed a year later by Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith ($50.0 million).[29] The film also broke The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King's record ($34.5 million) for the highest-grossing Wednesday of all time.[30] It held the Wednesday record for three years until it was topped by Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ($44.2 million).[31] Its Friday-to-Sunday gross reached a total of $88,156,227, which was the highest Independence Day weekend, breaking Men in Black II's record ($52.1 million), until it was broken seven years later by Transformers: Dark of the Moon ($97.9 million).[32] In its first six days, the film had grossed over $180 million.[33] The film also eventually went on to gross $373.5 million, becoming 2004's second-highest-grossing film, behind Shrek 2. Worldwide, the film grossed $783.7 million, ranking as 2004's third highest-grossing film behind Shrek 2 and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Spider-Man 2 is the 28th highest-grossing film in the U.S. and Canada.[2] The film sold an estimated 60,158,700 tickets in the US.[34]
Critical reception[edit]
Based on 261 reviews collected by the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Spider-Man 2 has a 93% overall approval rating from critics, with an average score of 8.3 out of 10. The site's consensus states "Boasting an entertaining villain and deeper emotional focus, this is a nimble sequel that improves upon the original".[35] By comparison, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 83, based on 41 reviews.[36] The film was placed at No. 411 on Empire magazine's top 500 movies list.[37]
Chicago Tribune's Mark Caro stated that Alfred Molina was a "pleasingly complex" villain, and the film as a whole "improves upon its predecessor in almost every way."[38] Kenneth Turan, of the Los Angeles Times, gave the film 4 out of 5 stars, and concurred with Caro when he stated, "Doc Ock grabs this film with his quartet of sinisterly serpentine mechanical arms and refuses to let go."[39] Roger Ebert, who had given the first film two and a half stars, gave Spider-Man 2 a perfect four out of four stars, calling it "The best superhero movie since the modern genre was launched with Superman (1978)", and praising the film for "effortlessly [combining] special effects and a human story, keeping its parallel plots alive and moving."[40] He later called it the fourth best film of 2004."[41] IGN's Richard George felt "Sam Raimi and his writing team delivered an iconic, compelling version of Spider-Man's classic foe... We almost wish there was a way to retroactively add some of these elements to the original character."[42] In 2016, James Charisma of Playboy ranked the film number nine on a list of 15 Sequels That Are Way Better Than The Originals.[43]
Conversely, J. Hoberman, of The Village Voice, thought the first half of the film was "talky bordering on tiresome", with the film often stopping to showcase Raimi's idea of humor.[44] Charles Taylor believed, "The script's miscalculation of Peter's decision feeds into the pedestrian quality of Raimi's direction and into Maguire's weightlessness... [Maguire] simply does not suggest a heroic presence", and suggested that "Dunst appears to be chafing against strictures she cannot articulate."[45]
Awards and nominations[edit]
Spider-Man 2 won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, and was nominated for Best Sound Mixing (Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Joseph Geisinger) and Best Sound Editing, but lost to Ray and The Incredibles, respectively.[46] The film won Saturn Awards for Best Actor, Best Director, Best Fantasy Film, Best Special Effects, and Best Writer, while being nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Best Music.[47] It was nominated for two British Academy Film Awards for Special Visual Effects and Sound, but lost to The Day After Tomorrow and Ray, respectively.[48] The AFI listed the film as one of the 2004's ten best films,[49] and nominated it for positions on the lists of the top 10 fantasy films,[50] the 100 most inspiring American films,[51] and the 100 greatest American films.[52]
|Date of ceremony
|Recipients and nominees
|Academy Awards[53]
|February 27, 2005
|Best Sound Editing
|Paul N.J. Ottosson
|Best Sound Mixing
|Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Joseph Geisinger
|Best Visual Effects
|John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara and John Frazier
|American Film Institute Awards[54]
|Movie of the Year
|Spider-Man 2
|BMI Film and TV Awards[55]
|May 18, 2005
|BMI Film Music Award
|Danny Elfman
|British Academy Film Awards[56]
|February 12, 2005
|Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects
|John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara and John Frazier
|BAFTA Award for Best Sound
|Paul N.J. Ottosson, Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Jeffrey J. Haboush
|Orange Film of the Year
|Spider-Man 2
|Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards[57]
|January 10, 2005
|Best Family Film
|Spider-Man 2
|Best Popular Movie
|Spider-Man 2
|Cinema Audio Society Awards[58]
|February 19, 2005
|Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures
|Joseph Geisinger, Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Jeffrey J. Haboush
|Empire Awards[59][60]
|March 13, 2005
|Best Actor
|Tobey Maguire
|Best Director
|Sam Raimi
|Golden Trailer Awards[61]
|May 25, 2004
|Summer 2004 Blockbuster
|Spider-Man 2
|Hugo Awards[62]
|August 7, 2005
|Best Dramatic Presentation – Long Form
|Spider-Man 2
|London Critics Circle Film Awards[63]
|February 9, 2005
|British Supporting Actor of the Year
|Alfred Molina
|MTV Movie Awards[64]
|June 4, 2005
|Best Action Sequence
|Spider-Man 2
|Best Movie
|Spider-Man 2
|Best Villain
|Alfred Molina
|People's Choice Awards[65]
|January 9, 2005
|Favorite Motion Picture
|Spider-Man 2
|Favorite On-Screen Chemistry
|Kirsten Dunst and Tobey Maguire
|Favorite Sequel
|Spider-Man 2
|Favorite Villain Movie Star
|Alfred Molina
|Satellite Awards[66]
|December 17, 2005
|Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Drama
|Alfred Molina
|Best Cinematography
|Bill Pope and Anette Haellmigk
|Best DVD Extra
|Spider-Man 2
|Best Film Editing
|Bob Murawski
|Best Original Score
|Danny Elfman
|Best Overall DVD
|Spider-Man 2
|Best Sound (Editing & Mixing)
|Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Joseph Geisinger, Paul N.J. Ottosson and Susan Dudeck
|Best Visual Effects
|John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara and John Frazier
|Saturn Awards[67]
|May 3, 2005
|Best Fantasy Film
|Spider-Man 2
|Best Actor
|Tobey Maguire
|Best Supporting Actor
|Alfred Molina
|Best Director
|Sam Raimi
|Best Writer
|Alvin Sargent
|Best Music
|Danny Elfman
|Best Special Effects
|John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara
and John Frazier
|Best DVD Special Edition Release
|Spider-Man 2
|Visual Effects Society Award[68]
|February 16, 2005
|Best Single Visual Effect of the Year
|John Dykstra, Lydia Bottegoni, Dan Abrams and John Monos
|Outstanding Compositing in a Motion Picture
|Colin Drobnis, Greg Derochie, Blaine Kennison and Ken Lam
|Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Act on Motion Picture
|Dan Abrams, David Emery, Andrew Nawrot and John Hart
|Outstanding Performance by an Actor or Actress in a Visual Effects Film
|Alfred Molina
|Outstanding Special Effects in Service to Visual Effects in a Motion Picture
|John Frazier, James D. Schwalm, James Nagle and David Amborn
|Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture
|John Dykstra, Lydia Bottegoni, Anthony LaMolinara and Scott Stokdyk
|World Stunt Awards[69]
|September 25, 2005
|Best Overall Stunt by a Stunt Man
|Chris Daniels and Michael Hugghins
|Best Specialty Stunt
|Tim Storms, Garrett Warren, Susie Park, Patricia M. Peters, Norb Phillips, Lisa Hoyle, Kevin L. Jackson and Clay Donahue Fontenot
|Best Work with a Vehicle
|Tad Griffith, Richard Burden, Scott Rogers, Darrin Prescott and Mark Norby
Despite the many super-hero movies which have followed after it, Spider-Man 2 still regularly tops rankings as one of the best-loved of the genre.[70][71][72][73][74][75][76] In 2012, Ask Men wrote, "This is the high-water mark for Spider-Man movies, and good luck to anyone who wants to top it."[77]
In 2013, Screen Crush wrote,"Sam Raimi's second outing with the web-slinging hero is as perfect as superhero movies get, nailing everything that's great about its hero without sacrificing the unique tone established by the first film. How exactly does Raimi pull off a movie that's simultaneously goofy, melancholy, romantic, frightening, melodramatic, crazily intense and emotionally fulfilling? Some kind of cinematic alchemy, apparently."[78] Forbes described it as "Not just one of the greatest sequels, but one of the best films of the genre, period."[79]
In 2014, Yahoo Movies! wrote, "Raimi's best superhero movie still takes the cake."[80]
Spider-Man 2 is Rotten Tomatoes's second best-reviewed comic book film of all time, beating out X2: X-Men United, Batman Begins and Superman.[81] It remains the second highest-rated superhero film behind The Dark Knight at 93% on rottentomatoes.com. In 2007, Entertainment Weekly named it the No. 21 greatest action film of all time.[82]
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Hellebuyck Makes 27 Saves, Jets Beat Sharks 4-1Connor Hellebuyck made 27 saves, Drew Stafford scored a short-handed goal and the Winnipeg Jets beat the San Jose Sharks 4-1 on Saturday night.
Patriots-Jets Highlight The Best Week Of NFL Football YetHere's a closer look at some of the best matchups on the schedule for Week 16 of the NFL season.
New York Jets 2014 Season Recap: A Year To ForgetA year of promise turned into a nightmare for Rex Ryan and his New York Jets.
Las Vegas Setting Odds On Jim Harbaugh Leaving The 49ersJim Harbaugh's future employer is becoming as hotly debated as any election the fall, and like recent presidential races, bookies are now giving you the opportunity to gable on the outcome.
Keidel: Giving Thanks For SportsSince we are upon our great day of gratitude, a pretext for gorging on poultry and then taking our swollen torsos to the nearest television for some football, let's look to sports for reasons to give thanks.
Jets Vs. Bills CBS Broadcast Won't Be Available To Most TV WatchersTV listings and NFL scoreboards around the country suggest that the rescheduled NFL game Monday night between the Buffalo Bills and New York Jets will be broadcast on CBS. That's true, if you live in one of those markets.
Five Things: Jets vs. Patriots Thursday Night Rounduphe ice-cold Jets gave the red-hot Patriots all they could handle Thursday night, but a blocked field goal as time expired sealed a 27-25 New England victory. The Pats moved to 5-2 while the Jets lost their sixth straight, their longest streak under Rex Ryan, to fall to 1-6.
Mayor Ed Lee Announces Return of The Blue Angels To Fleet Week 2014Mayor Lee also points out the importance of disaster preparedness…
Jets Power Past Raiders, 19-14The New York Jets' defense clamped down on Oakland rookie quarterback Derek Carr in a 19-14 victory Sunday.
Rookie QB Carr Leads Raiders Into Regular Season Opener Against New York JetsGeno Smith knows exactly what Derek Carr is dealing with. First NFL game. First NFL start. First regular-season snap, and all eyes on you.
Eric Decker Plays Many Roles For The New York JetsThe Jets marquee offseason signing is more than just a number one receiver for Gang Green.
NASA Releases Stunning 'Fire Cloud' Photos From Above California-Oregon BorderLightning-fueled fires on the Oregon-California border earlier this month sent huge smoke clouds into the atmosphere above the Western United States, clouds that NASA captured on camera both from jets and via satellite.