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...reviews are in for Hollywoodland, the new film opening this weekend that covers the mysterious death of TV's Superman star and struggling B-movie actor George Reeves. While the critics have been mixed to positive, it's hard to argue with the degree of scrupulous detail in the picture, from the exacting duplication of Reeves' famous superhero costume down to the mid-century furniture and curtains featured in interior scenes...
...Affleck, who plays Reeves, was obsessed with getting his real-life role down perfectly. He watched all 108 episodes of the original Superman series, read stacks of material about the actor's life and death, met with the actor who played Jimmy Olsen on the old TV show, and gained 20 pounds to more closely resemble the hunky TV hero. He even listened endlessly to CDs of Reeves' voice so he could get the same intonations and timbre. "It wasn't an imitation of George's voice, but an embodiment," says Coulter. There were other, more subtle shifts as well...
...Reeves life was full of complex psychological underpinnings. He was a solid actor, but rarely given a chance to show his real skills. He was a heavy drinker, caught in a relationship with the wife of a menacing studio executive. And, of course, he felt trapped in the role of the most powerful man on the planet. "There wasn't a day when Ben and I didn't discuss being respectful to George," concludes the director. "We wanted to give him the respect that he didn't get in his life...
...subject of tabloid dissections of her birth certificate, telephoto-lens bassinet shots by paparazzi and photo-illustrations of how she might look at 20 by forensic-imaging specialists. None of these indignities was imposed upon Cruise's older children, Isabella, 13, and Conor, 11, both of whom the actor adopted with ex-wife Nicole Kidman and shielded from the press. Whether because of more protective parenting, less invasive celebrity news coverage or a public at that time more interested in Cruise's onscreen adventures than his offscreen misadventures, those children were largely left alone...
...stories about disorder at Paramount and handicapping the fate of the current management, notably studio chief (and Freston hire) Brad Grey, was already a favorite parlor game in Hollywood. A few days after Cruise was cut loose, the head of a leading agency - one that does not represent the actor or his company - told TIME.com that his agents repeatedly have been frustrated by the inability of lower-level Paramount executives to make even minor decisions, such as okaying story pitches and entering low-dollar scriptwriting agreements, without first getting approval from their bosses. So far, however, insiders say there...