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Hollywoodland, to its credit, does not give Reeves, who is well and affably played by Ben Affleck, much of an inner life. It presents him as a good-natured hunk, a kind of male starlet, who got off to a promising start - he had a nice little role in Gone...
But, especially in show biz, bad luck often first appears wearing a smiley face. For what neither Reeves nor anyone else at the time could see was how television was beginning to reorder America's fantasy life. Yes, the movies had already lost about one-third of their audience to...
Unfortunately, Hollywoodland is not really up to sophisticated social-psychological explorations of Reeves's situation at the time of his death. It wants to melodramatize it more than it wants to fully understand it. The jealous girlfriend business doesn't go anywhere beyond the conventional, but the affair with the...
The 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...
Ben 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...