Spider-Man Becomes Pop-Culture Punch Line – And Keeps On Selling Tickets

Julie Taymor’s $65 million musical “has been lampooned on every major late-night comedy show and by The Onion, which portrayed the producers as still being optimistic about the show despite a nuclear bomb’s detonating during a preview.” Joan Rivers’s suggestion: “Hire a stunt person to fall on someone every three or four weeks – that’ll keep audiences showing up.”