SAN DIEGO — With great power comes great responsibility, and maybe that’s why Andrew Garfield’s expression alternated between somber and seasick an hour before he faced the spotlight glare of Comic- Con International.

“We all know how big a deal this is,” said the 27-year-old British-bred actor who will wear the mask in “The Amazing Spider-Man” next summer as Sony Pictures tries to reboot the franchise that has earned close to $2.5 billion at the box office. “We don’t need to talk about it. We know what is at stake. We know the fans are everything.”

That’s the potential burn — and signature sizzle — of Comic- Con, the annual four-day San Diego pop culture expo that concluded Sunday. Dating back four decades,

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Selma announced her pregnancy in January, and the couple reportedly “chose to keep the sex of her baby under wraps until the delivery,” according to People.com.

The ‘Cruel Intentions’ actress told Us Weekly at her June baby shower, “I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.” The party was hosted by “BFFs Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jaime King, Karen Zambos and Janey Lopaty,” Us reports.

What do you think about Selma’s son’s name, Arthur?

The Fourth of July, when the eyes of the nation will be on Boston and the Boston Pops, is now just one week away.

It’s a huge night for the city, and for the man center stage that night:  Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart.

Lockhart has a unique perspective on July 4th. St

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LOS ANGELES — In a battle of summer movie heroes, Captain America topped Harry Potter this weekend at the box office.

Paramount Pictures’ “Captain America: The First Avenger” opened at No. 1 with $65.8 million, according to Sunday studio estimates. The Marvel Comics superhero adventure sets up next summer’s all-star blockbuster “The Avengers.”

Warner Bros.’ “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” the eighth and final installment in the boy-wizard franchise, dropped to the second spot. It made just over $48 million in its second weekend for a domestic total of $274.1 million.

Don Harris, head of distribution for Paramount, said “Captain America” exceeded expectations. H

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Tony Kushner is worried that the human race is heading toward extinction. He’s worried that humanity may have descended to a level of desperation and delusion from which it may never return. But the man is not above making a joke.

At an appearance Saturday morning at the Shaw Festival’s Court House Theater in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., the Pulitzer-winning playwright and screenwriter referred to his latest play, tongue-in- cheekly titled “The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism,” as “a perfectly shaped, 16-word phrase in English that’s guaranteed to give Michele Bachmann a heart attack.”

He compared the emotional jolt that comes from seeing a well-performed George Bernard Shaw play to taking poppers or ecstasy. And he explaine

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At breakfast at the Crosby Street Hotel last week, novelist Tatiana de Rosnay, director Gilles Paquet-Brenner, actor Charlotte Poutrel, and publisher Heloise D’Ormesson discussed the impact of the Holocaust on the making of “Sarah’s Key.”

Keeping close to historic detail, “Sarah’s Key” is the story of a ten year old Jewish girl, arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ D’Hiv roundup of July 16, 1942.

Thinking she can save him, young Sarah (Melusine Mayance) locks her little brother in a secret cupboard, promising to return. She clutches the

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