Francine Pascal—a former soap-opera writer and creator of the extremely successful Sweet Valley High book series—died on Sunday in Manhattan’s NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Her daughter, Laurie Wenk-Pascal, confirmed to the New York Times that her mother’s death was due to lymphoma. She was 92.
When the news broke on Saturday night that the erstwhile Tony Stark and recent Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr. would be returning to Marvel to portray villain Dr. Doom, there was an immediate question: how much is this going to cost?