Word: supermans
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...best-case scenario for George Reeves would have been a car dealership in the San Fernando Valley. You know, one of those gigs where he could have donned an old Superman cape and done silly commercials - once all the rage on late-night TV in Southern California - in which he promised to make fabulous trade-ins faster than a speeding bullet...
...That was not to be. Sometime in 1959, his Superman television series was canceled after 104 episodes, and, unable to find other acting jobs because he was so closely identified with his eponymous role, he died violently in what could be deemed mysterious circumstances. Hollywoodland tells Reeves's story through flashbacks and largely through the eyes of a private detective (Adrien Brody), hired by Reeves's mother, who suspects foul play, even though the coroner has ruled his death a suicide. The film focuses on the "mystery" of his demise, and there are just enough enigmas in it to - shakily...
...Between these occasions, Superman Returned, bearing the weight of a Christological message - this was a second coming - but more moony than passionate in his pursuit of Lois Lane; Johnny Depp was back as Captain Jack Sparrow, in Part Two of Pirates of the Caribbean but he was more than ever mysteriously immune to the charms of Kiera Knightley, his presence too often buried under the weight of witless special effects; and, of course, there was Snakes on a Plane, which more or less definitively proved that Internet buzz is not necessarily a reliable selling tool for a movie...
...sullen stoolie who talks in the guarded whisper of cell block and exercise yard ... HE IS HARD-MUSCLED, HANDSOME, HANDY WITH A SNUB-NOSE .38, AND HIS HIDE IS AS TOUGH AS THE BLUING ON A PISTOL BARREL. Decent, disillusioned and altogether incredible, he is a soap opera Superman. He is television's 'Private Eye.' Smarter than the cops, craftier than the crooks, too quick to be caught and domesticated by the classiest doll, TV's private detective runs second to only one competitor in the race for ratings. So far, in a season riddled with old scandals...
...sidewalk below. "Fell right on her face," a bystander observes. "They wouldn't be able to tell who it is." Marshall, lurking out of sight, overhears this: cue the identity switch! It's one of those movies where a slight style change keeps people from recognizing the lead character. Superman had his spectacles; Marshall has a new hairdo. The movie needed a makeover...