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Starring: Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth. Release date: June 30. What the first four made: $318 million...
...BUZZ The set radiated bad p.r.: there were rumors of reshoots and wild budget overruns (the reported cost is a mighty $185 million). And do comic-book fans really care if Superman is a lover as well as a fighter? New guy Routh fills out the blue tights, and Spacey looks like a deliciously loony Lex Luthor, but Clark Kent might need to find a new beat. -By Lev Grossman...
...Hollywood, broody superheroes are easy to find. The kind without neuroses, that's tricky. After considering nearly every square jaw in show biz, including those of Jude Law, Brendan Fraser and Josh Hartnett, Warner Bros. has finally cast its next Superman--an unknown Iowan named BRANDON ROUTH. Like his predecessor, Christopher Reeve, Routh, 25, started as a soap hunk, in the cast of One Life to Live. His not-so-muscly résumé also includes a stint on Will & Grace and a role in the upcoming film Deadly, opposite Laura Prepon. In an age of flawed superheroes, Routh...
...difference between the attitudes of these two schools can be explained by simple economics. Princeton, with the nation's largest endowment per student, can afford to lead the way into increased generosity. It can also--to some extent--afford to vie with Harvard in the bidding war Routh said he sees coming in the Ivy League. Yale, with a far smaller endowment per student than either school, cannot...
...according to Routh, keeping pace with Harvard is "as much a budgetary question as a philosophical one." Either way, it's a tough question to answer in New Haven...