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Helen Slater Attending "Superman: The Movie" and "Supergirl" Double Feature Screening
by Neil Cole
Actress Helen Slater will be in attendance at a double feature screening of "Superman: The Movie" and "Supergirl" which takes place Friday, July 26th at 7:30pm at the historic Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, CA.
Prior to the screening of "Supergirl", Slater will participate in a discussion about the 1984 film in which she starred as the title character alongside such famous actors as Faye Dunaway, Peter O'Toole, and Mia Farrow.
The film follows Clark Kent's surviving Kryptonian cousin Kara Zor-El as she comes to earth and assumes an identity as Linda Lee to recover the Omegahedron from Selena, a fabulously evil sorceress who presides over an avant-garde coven from her carnival funhouse.
"Supergirl" will be preceeded by a screening of "Superman: The Movie" which was a box-office smash when it rocketed to Earth in 1978. The last son of the dead planet Krypton, Kal-El (Christopher Reeve) is found as a baby by Jonathan (Glenn Ford) and Martha Kent (Phyllis Thaxter) when his spaceship crashes just outside of Smallville, USA. Given the name "Clark" by his adopted parents, the boy grows up strong in the American heartland, developing amazing powers under the light of the yellow sun. One day, Clark finds a glowing crystal, and with it finds out about his alien heritage, the knowledge imparted to him by his birth father, Jor-El (Marlon Brando). The boy becomes a man, and moves to Metropolis to work for the Daily Planet newspaper, finding love in Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) and danger in the form of criminal genius Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman).
For more information or to purchase tickets to the double feature screening, please visit Fandango.com.
