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there is a book that just came out called: 'Superman vs. Hollywood.' tim, you might be interested. i just finished reading about it in 'Wizard' magazine. the article has an excerpt from the book and it sounds pretty interesting. i'll copy out the first paragraph of the article BEFORE the book excerpt appears. here goes: "Go behind the scenes in this excerpt from frequent 'Wizard' contributer jake rossen's new book that dishes the dirt on the man of steel's never-ending battle with tinseltown. hundreds of miles away from smallville sits hollywood, and it may be a far more threatening metropolis than the man of steel is used to. Superman vs. Hollywood is a no-holds-barred account of the last son of krypton's hollywood escapades, from his 1940 radio debut- which helped foil the Ku Klux Klan- to the 2006 bryan singer film. in between, filmmakers have endured everything from knife attacks to toxic gas to lawsuits in their efforts to adapt comicdom's most iconic hero. (lex luthor, it appears, has nothing on lawyers.) in this exclusive excerpt, author jake rossen examines the aftermath of 1978's groundbreaking "Superman:The Movie," a tumultuous production that saw director richard donner and producers alexander and ilya salkind butting heads and trading insults. the result drastically affected the completion of "Superman II," which was filmed in part simultaneously... then they print the excerpt. here's a coupla quotes from the excerpt as i'm not gonna recopy the whole thing. here's one: "with donner's departure, gene hackman snubbed offers to come back for reshoots on the sequel, necessitating a stand-in and a voice-over double for some scenes." here's another: "i said to donner, 'i'm thinking we could be presiding over the biggest financial disaster in the history of motion pictures." -tom mankiewicz (SM movie script doctor) here's one more: "ironically, some have speculeted that if his (richard donners) 'superman' had bombed, he would've been allowed to continue the saga, if only as punishment for his failure. ilya salkind rebuffed the suggestion. 'i laugh when i see people say,'oh, the salkinds, if it would have flopped they would've kept donner.' if it had flopped, there would've been no second movie!"  i'm gonna check it out i think.
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I'll see if I can get one on eBay before the rest of you do! LOL!
