The Defenders and the companion Netflix series derived from Marvel content are part of a separate deal, and that remains intact for now, but it's clear that all streaming providers are looking to comics as a wellspring of creative inspiration for programming.
Daniel Humm, Emma Hearst, Jesse Schenker, Grant Achatz, Graham Elliot, Eddie Huang — all of them, in different ways, are turning to music as a wellspring of culinary inspiration.
Pakistan, reliably chaotic since 1947, has served Hanif as a wellspring of characters and ideas.
Athens, classically understood as a wellspring of Western civilization, is now widely pilloried as a crisis-addled economic tragedy, crippled by austerity and restive as a result.
As a wellspring of revenue, this is a clever move, in an environment where everybody will succumb to thirst.
Welcome to Hydrophobic Hollywood, where the pool, despite its idyllic associations with summer bliss -- or maybe because of those associations -- is exploited as a wellspring of anxiety and chills.
On the other side, the antiauthoritarian spirit of 1968 was eventually seen as a wellspring of the successful rebellion against Soviet bloc Communism in 1989.
And the Y has begun taking over operations at Makor, whose name means "source" in Hebrew, a reference to the center as a wellspring of Jewish culture.
In this case, the cover line reads, "The #1 Happiness Secret You Might Be Missing," and the story touts volunteering as a wellspring of contentment.
"My fantasy of marriage as a wellspring of contentment has completely disappeared, and so should yours," Iris Krasnow sternly advises her readers in "Surrendering to Marriage" (Talk Miramax; $22.95).
