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March 4, 2008:

This past weekend, I went to the Metropolis Comic Show in Metropolis, Illinois, where I met a lot of fantastic Superman fans, like Charlee "Superman" Chartrand (with book, below) and Stephanie Perrin (a/k/a Superwoman):

Tim Gardner did an excellent job of organizing the show and making the special guests feel welcome. It was a pleasure to talk to the Super Fans who came out to the event, and I look forward to seeing many of them again this June at the Superman Celebration in Metropolis!

February 7, 2008:

I've just confirmed that I will be attending the The Metropolis Comic Show in Metropolis, Illinois, where Superman's 70th birthday will be celebrated on February 29! See the BOOKSIGNINGS page for more info!

January 27, 2008:

Recent weeks have brought major developments in both the Superman and James Bond worlds.

First, on the Superman front, Variety reported that Warners Bros. had (for now) pulled the plug on their proposed Justice League movie. Since the film was announced last fall, there has been much speculation on internet sites about who would be cast as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, with WB reps indicating that Superman and Batman would be played by actors other than Brandon Routh and Christian Bale. Apparently, the studio was treating this as a franchise separate from their already begun Superman and Batman films. In the end, the studio decided the script needed more work, so the project became a casualty of the ongoing writer's strike. There were other factors influencing the decision, including the studio not getting an official response on tax breaks they wanted for shooting in Australia, and the options on the actors running out.

On the 007 front, the title of the new James Bond movie was announced this past week: Quantum of Solace (see the BBC Website announcement). It's a title likely to leave a lot of folks scratching their heads going “What does that mean?” It comes from a short story Ian Fleming wrote for Cosmopolitan magazine that appeared in the May 1959 issue, and the following year appeared in the short story collection For Your Eyes Only. As Bond stories go, it's a trifle, with no derring-do. Instead, James Bond attends a dinner party which he finds dreadfully boring, and during which he is told the tale of a romance gone awry. On the BBC website, Daniel Craig explained, “Ian Fleming had written about relationships. When they go wrong, when there's nothing left, when the spark has gone, when the fire's gone out, there's no quantum of solace. And at the end of the last movie, Bond has the love of his life taken away from him and he never got that quantum of solace."

Speaking for myself, after the exciting rebooting of the series with Casino Royale, they could call the next one “Ham on Rye” and I'd still be lining up on opening day to see it.

December 10, 2007:

I recently received a call from Fred Shay, who was VERY instrumental in getting the transcription discs of the old Superman radio show out of the DC Comics vaults and transferred to tape. Fred was also a friend of Kirk Alyn's, and helped get Alyn's two Superman serials released on videotape. He also uncovered the rarely-seen "Superboy" and "Superpup" pilots. It was a pleasure speaking to Fred, and I'm sure that if there's a second printing of "Superman on Film, Television, Radio and Broadway," I'll be picking his brains to update the book! To see James Lantz's interview with Fred on the Superman Homepage, CLICK HERE.


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