Batman (1989) opened 30 years ago

This article from CNN.com reminded me of when Batman opened in the summer of 1989, thirty years ago. https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/22/entertainment/batman-movie-changed-the-comic-character/index.html

It was the biggest movie of the summer. I remember going to see it with my birth father; we didn't see movies together that often, but he liked action films and this and Indiana Jones 3 were the ones we saw together that summer.

I eventually saw Batman four times in the theater, including several times with some other neighborhood friends who hadn't seen it yet. There were trading cards to go along with the movie, and I remember tying to collect all 200 of them.

I remember the scenes people were talking about - people loved the Batwing flying over the moon to give a "bat-signal", and people loved The Joker, including me; he was more interesting to me than Michael Keaton's Batman character.  I also remember someone saying "I prefer Marvel comics to DC". If I had a crystal ball to see into the future, I would have told him, "Just wait another 15 or so years and you'll see Spider Man, X-men, and almost every other Marvel hero on the big screen".

Sargent Shriver meets Jackie Cooper and cast of "Superman III"

Last week American politician and humanitarian Sargent Shriver passed away at the age of 95.(ABC News | People) He and his late wife Eunice (sister of John F. Kennedy)  often  hosted special charity benefits for the Special Olympics, and in 1983, the entire cast of Superman III was invited (source: a 1983 documentary on the making of Superman III, which you can watch here or below in this post) .

Sargent Shriver loved
Jackie Cooper

In the first few minutes of this special, you can see the Shrivers greet producer Alexander Salkind (Shriver calls him the "original Superman" ha ha), director Richard Lester, Richard Pryor and Jackie Cooper, whom Shriver is ecstatic to meet. He tells the former 1930s child star that he's been a fan of his since his earliest movies.

Though many critics will argue the film itself is less than super, this documentary I think is interesting (I'm a sucker for any "making of" film).

More about Sargent Shriver at http://www.sargentshriver.org/