It's good to be a geek at Comic-Con
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Email Article Print ArticleWhy would Sam Raimi wear a Lone Ranger mask and would you cut your leg off to get a movie role?
by Scott Bowles and Whitney Matheson at U S A Today.com
Forget comics, where’s the movie?
Is it time to rename Comic-Con?
If anyone has the clout to even suggest such sacrilege, it’s Sam Raimi. After all, the guy has been here enough with his Spider-Man movies to know the convention.
“In a lot of ways, it’s a film festival,” says Raimi, here to promote the vampire film 30 Days of Night, which he produced. “And an important one. These fans are the ones who love their movies maybe (more) than at any other festival.”
Then, in moment of typical Raimi self-doubt, he reconsiders.
“Then again, I did see some really amazing comic artists in the hall,” he says. “Never mind. It’s still about comic books.”
Raimi concedes that the success of the comic book films has made it nearly impossible for him to walk freely through the San Diego Convention Center.
“This is the only place where they’d bother to know who I am,” he says.
So Raimi, who never goes anywhere without dress pants and a sport jacket, did the only reasonable thing to shop without getting accosted.
“I wore a Lone Ranger mask,” he says. “That’s all it took.”...
... Henderson the show stopper
Lacey Henderson lost her right leg below the knee to cancer when she was 10.
But it’s hardly slowed her down. She rock climbs, snowboards and was the captain of her varsity cheerleading squad at Regis Jesuit High School in Denver.
“I can still do back flips,” the 18-year-old said.
On Thursday, she became a show stopper, playing the role of Cherry Darling, the hero from this year’s Grindhouse. In the campy Quentin Tarantino film, Darling loses her right leg beneath the knee and replaces it with an M-4 machine gun.
Henderson landed the role after putting up her profile on a website dedicated to amputee roles in Hollywood (amputeeresource.org).
“I like the idea of letting people know you don’t have to let a disability limit what you can do,” she said during a break from the Weinstein Co. booth, where she posed for pictures in promotion of the DVD.
She was, however, a little overwhelmed by the Comic-Con audience.
“They were really sweet, but there are so many of them,” said Henderson, whose cancer has been in remission for eight years. “And I got a few weird questions.”
The weirdest?
“One guy asked me if I had my leg amputated to get the job.”
These are just the first and last notes in this article. You really need to catch this summary in it’s entirety. It has so much funny and interesting news.
It seems to take a snapshot of the whole comic-con experience.