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Article: Skip it.(Film)(Hollywoodland)(Movie review)
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- September 1, 2006
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[HOLLYWOODLAND] Before Brandon Routh, before Christopher Reeve, even before color television, there was George Reeves, who played the proto-Superman on the popular 1950s TV series. His life and mysterious death in 1959 are dramatized--although that's too exciting a word--in Hollywoodland, starring Ben Affleck as Reeves and Adrien Brody as the gumshoe who investigates his death. Reeves (like Affleck, perhaps) is a superstar in his own mind, who gets his big break by sleeping with a studio head's wife ...