I then received a pat on the shoulder - and there they were- Ye5man, Steve1977 and The Man! Looking more concerned than before, the sweetsman was confused by Superman CINEMA's flesh and blood reunion, especially as it was taking place before his stall. We thanked him kindly for his nostalgic SIV memories and returned to the square.

Way too much to take in - a flesh and blood meeting with Superman CINEMA regulars AND the grounds that Reeve walked upon. Pah, there are some Superman movie fans who are ONLY going to get the DVD this year- Ha!

As we curiously circled one another trying to differentiate one member from the next (much like the dawn of man sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey), I couldn't help but feel this kind of positive enthusiasm from my friends - one that director Sidney J Furie was certainly not blessed with on his visit - was going to set this day apart from anything else Superman movie related. Martin El grabbed his enormous movie portfolio from his car and we were off.

Out of station square and "No, but THIS IS DEFINITELY the UN entrance"-style conversations re-emerged yet again for a whole three blocks.

Ye5man noted that he did in fact walk past the Forte Posthouse hotel and ensured us that we wouldn't miss it if we kept walking forward.

Once outside I alerted the guys that through the hotel's restaurant windows was the EXACT room where Margot Kidder and Mariel Hemingway sipped ginger ale doubling for champagne, and discussed the mild-mannered male reporter before the arrival of Supey at the UN.

Unfortunately, Ahem had to delay the group's field trip while he took a time out to explain to one puzzled Martin El that the scene in question DID exist. After inviting ourselves into the hotel restaurant, Martin El decided to share his wealth. A portfolio of such diverse banners including "CANNES 1976: SUPERMAN DIRECTED BY GUY HAMILTON" and " UP, UP AND BOMB" was passed around with the inevitable "Ooh" and "Ahhs" and enough press material of Christopher Reeve to convince John Carpenter that the 'Village of the Damned' remake was a good decision.

"Wow, this is like a real-time message board," said Ye5man.

To give a clearer picture of how the now destroyed Lois/Lacey scene would have played, Lois and Lacey are sitting in a shopping mall discussing Lois' past experience with Clark while Lacey obsesses over her newly found not so Super-stud. For this scene both Margot Kidder and Mariel Hemingway felt the dialogue, written by Mark Rosenthal and Larry Konner, was all to much from a male perspective. After getting immediate permission from metteur en scene Sidney Furie, the duo decided to rewrite the material from a female point of view. To enhance the surroundings and create that shopping mall illusion the filmmakers took a GIANT still photo of a row of New York store fronts and placed it outside of the hotels window and in the cameras view. A giant plastic simulcrum dinosaur was added by the propmen, as was a gum-ball machine and a flock of young extras were also made to roller-skate past the camera on cue, to add that extra sense of a bustling shopping mall. When seated in the hotel I did also notice a plaque that hung on a pillar beside us that marked the hotel's opening from Spring 1987, long after the Autumn 1986 shoot.

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