The film received major recognition in France, and was proposed by Pierre Rissient to the Cannes Film Festival, and while agreed to by Eastwood and Siegel, the producers declined.

( Siegel and Shuster had earlier poked fun at Capp in a Superman story in Action Comics # 55, December 1942, in which a cartoonist named " Al Hatt " invents a comic strip featuring the hillbilly " Tiny Rufe.

A forerunner of the kryptonite concept was the unpublished 1940 story " The K-Metal from Krypton ", by Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel.

A 1960 story by Jerry Siegel expanded upon Luthor's origin and motivations, revealing him to be a childhood friend of Superman's who lost his hair when a fire destroyed his laboratory ; Luthor vowed revenge.

* All Things Considered, an NPR story, ' Star Wars ' - The Phantom Edit, Robert Siegel talks with Andrew Rodgers from Zap2it. com, July 16, 2001

Mainwaring scripted this framing story and Siegel shot it on September 16, 1955, at the Allied Artists studio.

Bugsy is a 1991 American crime-drama film which tells the story of mobster Bugsy Siegel.

Joe Shuster, who together with Jerry Siegel created the fictional superhero Superman, in 1938 burned the first Superman story when under the impression that it would not find a publisher.

He appeared in the short story " The Reign of the Super-Man " from Science Fiction # 3, a science fiction fanzine that Siegel published in 1933.

Shuster took this to heart and burned all pages of the story, the cover surviving only because Siegel rescued it from the fire.

Siegel was invited in 1986 by DC Comics ' editor Julius Schwartz to write an " imaginary " final story for Superman, following Marv Wolfman's Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series and before John Byrne's The Man of Steel miniseries, which reintroduced Superman.

That story, " The Coming of Gunhawk ", by writer Jerry Siegel and penciler Werner Roth, was eventually published in the omnibus title Western Gunfighters # 1 ( cover-dated Aug. 1970 ).

It was in this context that American Jewish comic book creator Jerry Siegel encountered the term and conceived the 1933 story " The Reign of the Super-Man ", in which the Super-man ( not to be confused with DC Comic's Superman ) is " an evil mastermind with advanced mental powers ".

Superman's creator, Jerry Siegel himself, who in 1961 had predicted the Man of Steel's death in an " imaginary story ," met with then Superman editor Mike Carlin to tell him that he was very impressed by his version of it.

A comics story based on this theme was a two-issue Legion of Super-Heroes adventure written by Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, where the team battled Brainiac 5's construction, Computo.

The story covers a great deal of history including the building of various casinos by some of the members of various criminal organizations ; the south ( Las Vegas ) vs. north ( Reno and Lake Tahoe ) rivalry ; the hotel fires in Las Vegas ; how some casinos failed and were left partially finished, and stories of some of the more famous residents including Howard Hughes and Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel.

While Siegel worked at his reviewing, he wrote the book for The First, a Broadway musical based on the story of Jackie Robinson, for which he received a Tony Award nomination in 1982.

It was created in this story by Jerry Siegel and Bernard Baily.

Don Siegel had originally been hired as director of the earlier 1946 version of the same story, but had been fired.

The film was directed by Don Siegel, based on the short story " The Road to Carmichael's " by Richard Wormser.

In the early 1930s, before Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created the comic-book superhero Superman, they wrote and illustrated a fanzine story, " The Reign of the Superman ," featuring a super-powered villain.

The resulting sequence, " Jack Jawbreaker Fights Crime !," was a devastating satire of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's notorious exploitation by DC Comics over Superman.

The hypothesis was proved by Carl Ludwig Siegel in 1929.

Jerry Siegel also stated that the naming of the planet Krypton was taken from the element Krypton due to the common denominators of high density and viscosity between the two.

The show, which lasted for 871 performances during its initial run, featured sketches written by Mad regulars Stan Hart and Larry Siegel interspersed with comedic songs ( one of which was written by an uncredited Stephen Sondheim ).

Leone was one of the two directors whom Eastwood dedicated his award to, the other was Don Siegel who directed Eastwood in a string of movies in the 1970s, including Dirty Harry.

Donald Siegel ( October 26, 1912 – April 20, 1991 ) was an American film director and producer.

A number of critics thought Eastwood's directing was " as derivative as it was expressive ", with Arthur Knight of the Saturday Review remarking that Eastwood had " absorbed the approaches of Siegel and Leone and fused them with his own paranoid vision of society ".

His first role was that of an elderly Jewish man in the play We Americans, written by playwrights Max Siegel and Milton Herbert Gropper ; it was also the first time that he ever acted in English.

Henry John Stephen Smith ( 2 November 1826 Dublin, Ireland – 9 February 1883 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England ) was a mathematician remembered for his work in elementary divisors, quadratic forms, and Smith – Minkowski – Siegel mass formula in number theory.

Eli Siegel ( August 16, 1902 – November 8, 1978 ) was the poet and critic who founded the philosophy Aesthetic Realism in 1941.

" I think it's about time Eli Siegel was moved up into the ranks of our acknowledged Leading Poets ," wrote Kenneth Rexroth, in the New York Times.

His suicide was described by Ellen Reiss in The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known wrote: " Mr. Siegel, as he lived, and also in dying, was true to the philosophy he founded: his purpose was to be fair to the world ".

I believe that Eli Siegel was a genius.

In later interviews, Siegel pointed out that it was studio policy not to mix humor with horror.

In a later interview Siegel complained, " The film was nearly ruined by those in charge at Allied Artists who added a preface and ending that I don't like.

" In his autobiography, Siegel added that " Wanger was very much against this, as was I.

The planet was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and was first referred to in Action Comics # 1 ( June 1938 ); the planet was given its first full-fledged appearance in Superman # 1 ( Summer 1939 ).

Siegel argued that tossing the badge was instead Callahan's indication of casting away the inefficiency of the police force's rules and bureaucracy.

Amongst his teachers were Max Planck and Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, whose influence made the young Siegel abandon astronomy and turn towards number theory instead.

Clark's middle name is given variously as either Joseph or Jerome, the latter in allusion to creator Jerry Siegel.

" Luciano's associates Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel and Meyer Lansky formed Murder, Inc., a name given by the media in the 1940s.

The actual hit would be given to Jack Dragna, the Los Angeles crime family boss and close to Siegel.

The Thue – Siegel – Roth theorem states that any irrational algebraic number has approximation exponent equal to 2, i. e., for given, the inequality

Characters were named after the writer David Goodis, director Don Siegel and actor Richard Widmark — people influential in the genre of film noir. The film's producer, Georges de Beauregard, did not complete payments for rights to the novel, so Westlake took him to court ( after litigation Westlake was given North American distribution rights ).

Attempting to prove that the LSD alone had not been the cause of death, Ronald K. Siegel of UCLA repeated a variant of West's experiment on two elephants ; he administered to two elephants equivalent doses ( in milligrams per kilogram ) to that which had been given to Tusko, mixing the LSD in their drinking water rather than directly injecting it as had been done with Tusko.