Spider-Man, which opens here on Thursday, may have broken box-office records stateside but it's looking like it might be breaking another record - the film with the greatest number of continuity errors. American fans have so far spotted 77 errors, the most flaws identified over an opening weekend. The howlers,
which are catalogued at the website movie-mistakes.com, include disappearing backpacks, self-repairing lamps, and costumes alternating between being dirty and clean during a single fight scene.
Among the inaccuracies in the film is a scene where Spider-Man beats up four men, throws two of them through windows and then deals with the other two with the windows suddenly intact.
COMING UP ROSES: They look like ZZ Top and they've got hearts as big as Texas. They are the Wolverines, who are this week's most unlikely chart-toppers with their single about cystic fibrosis. And if you think you have to be a rapper to get a rhyme for that lyrical clunker, the song is 65 Roses because that's how a little boy mispronounced it. The catchy song - a mid- tempo ballad that owes something to Dr Hook - is the story of a boy whose sister dies and he asks why she had 65 roses. Their own Can Somebody Help (three different versions including a broody rock treatment) on the single is an altogether darker affair with a similar theme. The Australian band - actually two Kiwis and an Aussie - are Harley riders with hearts. Proceeds from sales will go to research into CF, a genetic condition that affects 2500 New Zealanders. So don't you go burning copies, right?
A READER WRITES: Further to our rude quips last week about what Tom Cruise might do during downtime while filming in Taranaki ("drive to Auckland") David Walter, chairman of the Taranaki Council proves not all people in local body politics are entirely boring. He includes in his otherwise dull list - bask in the sunshine, meet friendly people, breathe clear fresh air, relax away from the maddening (sic) crowd - Tom could "be granted an honorary doctorate from the University of the Republic of Whangamomona". A bloke we know has got one of those and it scored him a real big-time job - for a month.
