NPR's Scott Simon remembers Gene Hackman, who played everymen, cops and villains over his long movie career. The 95 year old actor and his wife were found dead this week in their New Mexico home.
Casting directors posted an open call for actors interested in working as extras on a new Warner Bros. Superman movie filming in Georgia, including in the Macon area at the end of May.
Superman faces a challenge that reveals the show's beating heart and turns him into an average guy with a battleship-size nemesis: cancer that has stricken his beloved. The season finale airs Tuesday.
