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Spidey 4 Writer Hired

Entertainment Weekly reported that Sony has hired writer James Vanderbilt (Zodiac) to pen a script for a proposed fourth Spider-Man movie.

News of Vanderbilt’s hiring comes only days before a possible strike by the Writers Guild of America, which would put a halt to all writing.

It’s unknown whether Spider-Man director Sam Raimi will helm the fourth installment. The studio has set a 2009 release date for the sequel.

This may very well be the best Halloween costume ever made. And yes, I mean homemade. This power loader costume is made mostly of styrofoam and cardboard packing inserts, and is light enough that the man inside it provides all the motive force to carry it. This is one of the best examples I have ever seen of someone taking what was otherwise going to be thrown away and going something incredibly creative with it. He even made a photo-chronicle of the design and construction of this thing so anyone who wants to can make one, too. Its simply astounding. Click the pic to check out how he did it and what it looked like when he walked around trick-or-treating with his kids on Halloween night. This guy is my new hero.

The reason that I’m telling you this is that I am still a little exhausted, hung over, dehydrated, or whatever else you want to call it, and I am in absolutely no shape to write an article today. Instead, to go along with Mark’s haunted house review, I’ve got some videos of people getting the hell scared out of them. You can find a lot of these on YouTube, but a lot of them are either repetitive or just plain boring. I’ve gone through a bunch of them and collected the best of the lot for you here. Enjoy.

My favorite thing about this video is that the black guy, who is WAY too old to be going up to people’s houses without a costume on, looks genuinely terrified. I don’t think he was out to hurt anybody, I think he was honestly scared shitless. As soon as he gets down the stairs he seems to come to his senses and help the guy. Quick Halloween tip: if you’re six feet tall with no costume on and you can’t control yourself when you’re scared, don’t go trick or treating. Its a good way to end up in prison. But guess what, scarecrow? YOU GOT OWNED!

I love the guy who gets scared here because he reacts just like Mark does when you really scare him, but he curses constantly just like me. Guess what, Mr. Grand Theft Auto? YOU GOT OWNED!

You’ve probably seen this one, but I’m posting it here for no other reason than that its a classic. What I love is that the kid is practically begging his father for help, and the guy’s just holding a video camera six inches from his face and laughing at him. Welcome to the world, kid. YOU GOT OWNED!

Oh god, how I long for the day when I’ll finally scare someone badly enough that they excrete on themselves. Maybe I should do what this guy did and wait until the process is already under way. In any case, it takes a lot of dedication to wait in hiding while another man backs one out a foot away from you. This guy is a real trooper. And that rhymes with ‘pooper.’ The jokes never end, here, folks. Never. Guess what, potty boy? YOU GOT OWNED!

The next few clips come from Scare Tactics on the Sci-Fi Channel. All are Halloween worthy.

Now back to the homemade clips…

Although not the funniest, this may be the best and most effective scare ever caught on film. Its one thing to reduce a child to a screaming, sobbing mess on the floor, but when you manage to do it to an adult, then you, my friend, have talent. I scared Mark almost this badly once, and it ended up scaring me, too, because I was honestly afraid he was going to die. God, what I would give to have that on tape…

What I don’t get is how some of these YouTube videos look so great but have such shitty sound. This one’s compressed so weirdly and poorly it sounds like there are audio effects from Logan’s Run playing in the background. Doesn’t matter though, because the video pays off in the first 12 seconds. Just check out the look on that guy’s face. Guess what, sleepyhead. YOU GOT OWNED!

UPDATE – I screwed this link up. The compilation I originally had posted here has either been pulled from YouTube, or I’m just unable to find it, but here’s the clip of the sleepyhead getting scared. God, I can’t get enough of this. I think this guy pissed himself. Just look how freaked out he gets. It is so choice.

I am going to do this to Mark. Actually, K-Dizzle and I already did this to Mark. She did it at a restaurant and I did it in a package of tortillas in his fridge. Mark’s reactions to these little gags are fuel for my cruelty machine. Mark, my friend, YOU GOT OWNED!

This one is in no way Halloween related, its just a kid on an amusement park ride that seems to really beleive he is going to die. This kid is absolutely terrified, and what makes it even funnier is that Janice, the sadistic bitch sitting next to him, laughs that horrible witch laugh louder and louder the more he panics. People say this is cruel because he’s a fat kid. I disagree. This would be funny no matter who was screaming it. The only cruel thing about it is that this kid is stuck in an amusement park of terror with this Janice monster. This kid’s parents should be arrested.

Another one with shitty sound, but the dad’s reaction to the girl terrifying his ass is too fucking funny not to hear. Hey, Dad, guess what? Your daughter is six and she’s already smarter than you. YOU GOT OWNED!

What’s with these people and drunk driving? Good lord, they fire people left and right on this show for traffic violations. I don’t feel bad for anyone who gets kicked off this show for this kind of shit. I wish professional athletic organizations would take a lesson from the creators and producers of Lost. The people who run this show have made it crystal clear that they’re not going to tolerate any of this spoiled celebrity bullshit from these people. Why would you go and do the very thing that got your co-stars canned? This makes no sense. Fuck this dumb ass; I say they fire him just to keep the streak going.

HONOLULU – Actor Daniel Dae Kim was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving early Thursday by Honolulu police — the fourth actor on ABC's "Lost" to run into trouble with the law while filming in Hawaii.

Kim, who plays Korean tough guy Jin-Soo Kwon, was taken into custody before 3 a.m. local time and released after posting bail, police said.

A telephone message left with Kim's publicist after regular business hours was not immediately returned.

Other "Lost" stars facing problems with the police in Hawaii include Michelle Rodriguez and Cynthia Watros, whose characters were killed off in 2005 after they both were arrested and pleaded guilty to drunken driving.

Rodriguez, who played Ana Lucia, was sentenced to five days in jail and $357 in fines. Watros, who played Libby on the show, had her license suspended for 90 days and paid a $312 fine.

A year ago, Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje, the actor who played "Mr. Eko," was arrested for a traffic violation and accused of disobeying a police officer and driving without a license. The charges were dropped, but his character also was killed off.

Kim, 38, was born in Busan, South Korea, but grew up in Easton, Pa., and has a masters degree from New York University.

On the show, he portrayed a chauvinistic thug who at first was overly protective of his wife, but then began to warm up to other characters on the mysterious island where "Lost" is set.

For those of you who have never spoken personally with Mark, he used to have this habit of saying, whenever anybody disagreed with him or criticized anything he did or said, “You jealous?” It didn’t even matter if that response made any sense at all, it was always “Jealous?” If you were telling him that he shouldn’t wear those pants because there was a hole in the crotch and you could see his junk drooping, or if you were telling him you thought he left the oven on because there was thick, black smoke coming out of his house, it was always the same. “Jealous?” It even got to the point where he would do it in reference to things that had nothing at all to do with him. “Man, Rally’s fries are way better than Burger King’s.” “Oh, yeah? You jealous?”

He didn’t do this because he’s ghetto trash or because he’s not smart enough to come up with a better response. No, he did it because he was perfectly aware that it made absolutely no sense whatsoever, and he knew it was infuriating. Especially to me. He used to drive me up the fucking wall with that nonsense. And its too bad Mark has chosen to retire that particular irritating behavior, because for the first time ever, I would have to say ‘yes.’ Because I am. I am totally fucking jealous.

Also, I have to apologize to Mark. I promised him that I would have this posted yesterday. However, just minutes after I made that promise, using my broad and sweeping powers as a television producer, I was able to contact the firm that represents the NETHERWORLD Haunted House and have them send me some exclusive interior photos of the attraction. Or so I though. What I actually got from them was a promise to send the photos. The photos themselves have never materialized, despite my callbacks and emails. The young lady I spoke with asked me for the web address of the site the photos would be posted on; I guess she didn’t dig what we have to say, ’cause that’s the last I heard from her.

So fuck ‘em. The article gets posted anyway, and NETHERWORLD Haunted House gets cheated out of all the extra customers whom we might have sent their way if we had received those promotional photos we were promised. I was going to make my decision to take a road trip down there based on what those photos had to offer. Guess what my decision will be based on photos I was promised but didn’t receive? Its not NETHERWORLD’s fault, though, so don’t blame them. If you’re in the area, take Mark’s advice and check the place out. Sounds like a Hell of a time. And I did manage to find this pic of one of NETHERWORLD’s creepy inhabitants, The Impaler.