There were times, as the audience was hollering around me, with Marvel mania in full spate, that I felt like a mourner at the graveside of cinema.
Other stars doing red-carpet duty this week include Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz for the new Pirates of the Caribbean episode, Tilda Swinton and the magnificently potato-faced John C Reilly for We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Jane Fonda, prompting a spate of "Is she really 73?" coverage.
Judy Noble Speregen Dear Diary: During a recent spate of unemployment, I became a regular at the cafe near my apartment in Brooklyn.
When the financial markets undergo their seemingly annual spate of volatility, I turn to a three-page section in the middle of Thomas Wolfe's "You Can't Go Home Again," which perhaps fails to cohere as a novel, but succeeds as a reference book to consult in a moment of crisis, whether the seeming catastrophe is narrow and personal or wide and global.
I have been thinking about bakeries a lot recently because I have been reading yet another spate of articles about having it all.
"Is this spate of anti-protest bills a coincidence?" the ACLU asked recently on its website.
Considering there was a large spate of UFO sightings the year I was born, I sometimes fear my parents were visited by a UFO instead of a stork.
"Before [the recent spate of breaches], "It was ya I get it security, blah, blah, but I don't have outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you,'" says David Cowan, a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.
One simple fix: "As a veteran solo traveler … I counted a spate of posh new boîtes as a bonus".
The spate of films for "seniors" I reported on last year deals with similar concerns – men in crisis, the price of long-term commitment – but have a lot more fun.
