Reuters - Veteran comic-book
artist Ed Brubaker is spearheading an online live-action
series. Brubaker, whose credits include "The Death of Captain
America" and "Criminal," has been enlisted by Sony Pictures
Television to produce "Angel of Death." -- read full article
E! Online - Today's the day, fanboys (and girls). San Diego Comic-Con, the world's biggest comic-book convention and pop-culture expo, opens tonight with an expected crowd of more than 120,000.
AP - "Gossip Girl" will get people talking. At least, that seems likely as the CW network brings to a boil its new campaign for the sexy prep-school soap.
AP - The widow of producer Aaron Spelling paid a whopping $47 million for a two-story condo atop a Century City residential tower that's still under construction, her lawyer said. -- read full article
E! Online - I read that Sherri Shepherd, who once wondered out loud if the world was flat, has had a ton of abortions. Why do stars share all this? TMI!
E! Online - As all Buffy, Angel and Firefly fans know, when Joss Whedon gets it right, he gets it very, very right. And if he gets it wrong—he'd rather us not know it.
Reuters - Emmy-winning actress Estelle Getty,
best known as a wise-cracking octogenarian on the popular 1980s
and '90s sitcom "The Golden Girls," died on Tuesday. She was
84.
