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ICE CUBE: I'm Not The Wiz, It's Not My World
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ICE CUBE: I’m Not The Wiz, It’s Not My World
One of the most annoying things about Wizard World, the traveling comic-con of adventure-film fanatics, comix nerds and sci-fi freakazoids that took place over the weekend at Pennsylvania Convention Center is that you really can’t get near the animals in captivity without waving a banana at them. Translation: The meeting of all the Star Trek captains, the reunion of Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell (that’s Quantum Leap to the novices) and getting alltogthertooclose to Avengers’ Chris Hemsworth as a member of the press — even if you had something pre-arranged — was a non-starting situation unless you were paying someone to stand still for you. That’s how these guys make their money at these conventions, which is fine for the fans but not the working press. Ray Bradbury would’ve turned over in his grave if he had been dead last week. That could be why Heroes’ Hayden Panettiere began to hide from intrepid Ice photog Scott Weiner in his series of three photos — he wasn’t paying her. One-time Superman Dean Cain was nice but if you notice, his steely gaze was just off to the left of our lens. The reason? No money for the Man of Steel. Luckily, comic strip god Stan Lee and the unexpectedly cool Sean Patrick Flenery and Norman Redus from the dark lark Boondock Saints saved the day with their cool. My heroes.
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