Article: `Hollywoodland' pulls the cape off TV's `Superman'.

Byline: Glenn Lovell

SAN FRANCISCO _ Superman fears energy-sapping kryptonite. Warner Bros. and DC Comics, a subsidiary of Time Warner, fear anything that could tarnish their Man of Steel's reputation or reveal him to have Clark Kent-like feet of clay.

The movie "Hollywoodland" does exactly that.

The low-budget biopic _ set in the late 1950s and starring Ben Affleck as TV "Superman" George Reeves and Adrien Brody as a private eye investigating Reeves' suicide _ shows the actor to be an adulterer, a drunk and an industry laughingstock. It also floats the theory, via Brody's down-and-out gumshoe, that Reeves didn't commit suicide in 1959; that he ...

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