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THE Avengers is taking a page out of Superman’s comic book, flying faster than a speeding bullet to the billion-dollar mark at the box office. The superhero blockbuster took in $US103.2 million ($A102.92 million) to lead for a second-straight weekend, raising its domestic total to $US373.2 million, according to studio estimates yesterday. With $US95.4 million more overseas, The Avengers lifted ... Read More »

Jonathan Frid, whose portrayal of charismatic vampire Barnabas Collins in the supernatural soap opera “Dark Shadows” turned the classically trained actor into a pop-culture star in the late 1960s, has died. He was 87. Frid died April 13 of natural causes at a hospital in his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, said Jim Pierson, a spokesman for Dan Curtis Productions, which ... Read More »