On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:28:29 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:54:51 -0700, Darren New wrote:
>> 
>>> It's like Stan Lee's cameo as a panhandler/beggar in Spider Man. It's
>>> funnier if you know it's Stan Lee[1].  It's doubly funnier if you know
>>> he didn't, due to contractual bits, get any royalties from the movie.
>> 
>> He seems to do a lot of those in the Marvel Comics' movies.  I think
>> he's been in each one of them, in fact.
> 
> It's in his contract, actually. They're obligated to put him in each
> movie.

Ah, now I didn't know that.  Still, it's cool that they're doing that.

>> Had a good laugh when he turned up in Iron Man, ostensibly as Hugh
>> Heffner.  Of course, he was credited in the credits as playing
>> "himself".
> 
> Yeah. Or the one in the Silver Surfer movie, where they don't let him
> into the wedding because he doesn't have an invitation, and he's all
> "But I'm Stan Lee!"

You know, I need to rent that one and see it - I wanted to see it in the 
cinema, but we never got around to it.  I'm thinking we need to go see 
Hulk in the next day or so (taking a couple days off work).

Jim

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