Ron Perelman, the Revlon chairman who is less wealthy than an entire other 86 people in the world, is trying to settle a little legal matter over Marvel Entertainment Group, a company he once helmed before it sank into bankruptcy. Not that it hurt Perelman much: He and other toppers stood accused of fleecing the company, directing its dollars to his own companies before Marvel went under. So he's offering shareholders $80 million to settle the matter, while admitting no wrongdoing. This is, of course, a mere 4X more than he paid to have his ex-wife's name stamped on a building at UPenn, and $473.5 million less than he stands accused of stealing.

Two eyebrow-raising Hollywood scandals popped up this week, one including an actual eyebrow! Must we make Tinseltown worry about anything other than budgets and insuring Lindsay Lohan?

First up, the battle between Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment and paparazzo Ronnie Adams, who snapped a photo of Robert Downey Jr. on the set of big-budet action flick Iron Man while the movie was still filming.

As producers for the big and small screen continually battle back against potential spoilers, the studio demanded Adams remove the photo from his website, where he had posted it. He refused, but they eventually got to his web host, who yanked his account.

And then … his photo resurfaced. In Iron Man.

That's according to Adams' lawsuit, which claims that after all its complaining, Marvel used the copyrighted photo – after removing Adams' watermark – in a scene in the movie, showing a newspaper article headlined "Who is this Ironman." Fiscally savvy Adams, filing suit against the studios, now wants to get remunerated for his unsolicited efforts in contributing to this "pivotal scene."

So that's one photo scandal. This next one features Tom Cruise and Nazis! And an eyebrow!

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"This is like, my first big action movie, and this is what I f*cking get. Wow, wow." That's Ed Norton in this Jimmy Kimmel clip from last week — the only real bit of press The Incredible Hulk star participated in (he did do the red carpet at the premiere, with "controlled" press, and the MTV Movie Awards). How come? Because, the story goes, he didn't want to have to get grilled on a little dispute over just how much he re-wrote the Hulk script submitted by Zak Penn (who wrote X-Men 3), and why Norton didn't get a screenwriting credit.

With the movie opening this weekend Norton supposedly ran off to some deserted island and refused to promote the flick, leaving Liv Tyler's lips to do all the heavy lifting.

So what was the end result of Norton refusing to take part in endless pool interviews? Oh, nothing really. Just a $60 million opening weekend box office take.

Watch Norton's Kimmel video, which hopes to rack up as many YouTube views as "I'm F*cking Matt Damon," below.

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The Incredible Hulk, which premieres this weekend just a few years after its most recent remake, which went down the box office crapper, is expected to perform quite nicely once all the box office receipts are counted. But don't expect any help from its star, Ed Norton — he's off on a remote island being attended to. And he won't be coming back. At least not until Universal ups his fee.

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Charging for Pulitzer Prize winning journalism might be a fruitless endeavor, but comics, that’s a different story.

Earlier this week Marvel put up their comic archive online. For $9.99 a month or $59.98 a year, users can peruse over 40 years of men in tights saving the world with their over defined abs.

As charging for online content becomes increasingly difficult, will back issues of Spiderman be any different? Apparently yes. Marvel’s site crashed from the demand yesterday.

With porn and X-Men now both online, band geeks everywhere have resolved never to leave the house ever again.